Fiona Tan

Fiona Tan was born in 1966 in Pekanbaru, Indonesia, to an Indonesian Chinese father and Australian mother.[6] Tan spent her early childhood in Melbourne, Australia.[6] In 1984 she moved to Europe, where she has resided since. Between 1988 and 1992 Tan studied at Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam.[5] Between 1996-1997 she also studied at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunst.[7][8]

In 2019, Tan completed a photography/film project titled L'archive des ombres/Shadow Archive during her residency at the Mundaneum, a repository created by Belgian visionary Paul Otlet with the goal of cataloging all human knowledge. An exhibition of the same name was staged at the Musée des Arts Contemporains, Grand-Hornu, Belgium in 2019.

In 2009, she represented The Netherlands at the Venice Biennale with the solo presentation Disorient.[9] She has also participated in Documenta 11, the Yokohama Triennale, the Berlin Biennale, São Paulo Biennial and also at the Istanbul Biennial, the Sydney Biennial and Asian Pacific Triennial. Her work is represented in many international public and private collections including the Tate Modern, London, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Schaulager, Basel, the New Museum, New York, and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.[10]

She has been guest lecturer at many art institutions including professor at the postgraduate program De Ateliers, Amsterdam (2006–2014) and Kunsthochschule Kassel (2014–15).

In 2003 Tan created a poster, Lift, for Transport for London.[11] In 2016 she directed her debut film, History's Future.^[3] Her second feature film Ascent premiered at the 2016 Locarno International Film Festival.[12][13] During this year she was also the artist in residence at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, California.[14]

Over the past twenty years her work has gained increasing international recognition. Tan has had solo exhibitions in museums and galleries worldwide including the New Museum, New York, Vancouver Art Gallery, Sackler Galleries, Washington DC, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Switzerland, Akademie der Künsten, Berlin, Kunstverein Hamburg, Konsthal Lund, Landesgalerie Linz, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montréal, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.[10]

Fiona Tan received several international prizes and awards, including Getty Artist-in-Residence Fellowship, Los Angeles (2016);[40] Deutsche Börse Photography Prize (nominee) (2007); ICP Infinity Award for Art, New York (2004);[41] Artes Mundi Prize, Cardiff (nominee) (2003); and J.C. van Lanschot Prize for sculpture, Belgium/The Netherlands (1998).

Tan participated in established international residencies, including IASPIS grant and residency, Stockholm (2003) and DAAD scholarship and residency, Berlin (2001).

• Mariska van den Berg; John Berger; Lynne Cooke; Heddy Honigmann; Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen; Dominic van den Boogerd (2001). Mariska van den Berg (ed.). Fiona Tan, Scenario. nai010. ISBN 9789056621827.*
• Francesco Bonami; Joel Snyder; Tessa Jackson (2004). Fiona Tan: Correction. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. ISBN 9780933856844.
• Tan, Fiona (2015). Fiona Tan : geography of time. London: Koenig Books. ISBN 9783863358396. OCLC 923727690.
• Tan, Fiona (2006). Fiona Tan. Heidelberg: Kehrer Verlag. p. 384 pages. ISBN 9783936636895. OCLC 123470361.

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