Fiona Tan

Fiona Tan (born 1966 in Pekanbaru, Indonesia)[2] is a visual artist primarily known for her photography, film and video art installations. With her own complex cultural background, Tan's work is known for its skillful craftsmanship and emotional intensity, which often explores the themes of identity, memory, and history.[3][4] Tan currently lives and works in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.[5]

Fiona Tan
Born1966
Pekanbaru, Indonesia
NationalityIndonesian
Alma materGerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam[1]
Known forvideo art and film installations
Websitewww.fionatan.nl

Early life and education

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]

Artistic practice

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]

Exhibitions

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]

Select solo exhibitions

Select group exhibitions
  • Cine y Casi Cone, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid (2007)
  • Global Multitude, Rotunde, Luxemburg (2007)
  • L’oeil ecranou la nouvelle image, Casino Luxembourg (2007)
  • Museum of Contemporary Art of Bucharest, Romania (2007)
  • Contour, Museum Prinsenhof, Delf (2007)
  • Biennial of Moving Images, Geneva (2007)
  • Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, Photographer’s Gallery; Berlin (2007)
  • Neue Börse, Frankfurt (2007)
  • Breeze, cur. Marja Bloem, Gallery Nelson Freeman, Paris (2008)
  • The Tropics Martin- Gropius-Bau, Berlin (2008)
  • Be(com)ing Dutch, Van Abbemuseum, Eidenhoven (2008)
  • Rethink Kakotopia, Nikolaj, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center (2009)
  • Self and Other, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka (2009)
  • Architecture Biennale, Venice (2010)
  • São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo (2010)
  • Ich zweifellos, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg (2010)
  • Moving Portraits, De La Warr Pavilion, UK (2011)
  • Expanded Cinema, MMOMA, Moscow (2011)
  • Architectural Environments for Tomorrow, MOT Tokyo (2011)
  • Le Pont, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Marseille
  • Beyond Imagination, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (2012)
  • Arte torna arte, Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence (2012)
  • Autobiography, Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris (2012)
  • Status, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland (2012)
  • Inseldasein, DAAD Galerie, Berlin (2013)
  • Suspended Histories, Museum van Loon, Amsterdam (2013)
  • Go-Betweens, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (2014) [35]
  • Paradise Lost, CCA, Singapore (2014) [36]
  • FUTURE PRESENT, Schaulager, Laurenz Foundation, Basel, Switzerland (2015) [37]
  • NO MAN'S LAND, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, United States (2015) [38]
  • Ecce Homo, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan (2016)[39]

Select awards

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).

Residencies

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

Further reading
  • 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.

References
  1. Tan, Fiona (2015). Fiona Tan : geography of time. London: Koenig Books. pp. 118–119. ISBN 9783863358396.
  2. "Exhibitions". New Museum Digital Archive. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
  3. van der Ley, Sabrina; Lunghi, Enrico; Gaensheimer, Susanne; Landau, Suzanne (2015). Fiona Tan : geography of time. London: Koenig Books. p. 4. ISBN 9783863358396.
  4. "Introducing", FionaTan.nl, Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  5. "Fiona Tan CV" Archived 2018-10-31 at the Wayback Machine, Frith Street Gallery, Retrieved 30 October 2018.
  6. Guy Nichols, Matthew. "Fiona Tan" Archived 2014-08-13 at the Wayback Machine, Art in America, Retrieved 12 August 2014.
  7. Tan, Fiona (c. 2009). Rise and Fall. Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery. p. 103. ISBN 9781895442793.
  8. "Fiona Tan". www.nasjonalmuseet.no. Retrieved 2018-03-03.
  9. "Disorient", Artist's website, Retrieved 18 November 2018.
  10. "Fiona Tan biography" (PDF).
  11. David Bownes (2018). Poster Girls. london transport museum. ISBN 978-1-871829-28-0.
  12. "Ascent". www.pardolive.ch. Retrieved 2017-03-09.
  13. "Locarno goes Dutch | Nederlands Film Festival". www.filmfestival.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 2017-03-09.
  14. "ASCENT: A film by Fiona Tan (Getty Research Institute)". www.getty.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-03.
  15. "Fiona Tan" Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, Vancouver Art Gallery, Retrieved 12 August 2014.
  16. "Fiona Tan "Rise and Fall" and New Works – ART iT: Japanese-English contemporary art portal site". Retrieved 2020-03-07.
  17. Milliard, Colline."Image of a People: Fiona Tan Assembles an Intimate Portrait of London from Old Family Photos", ArtInfo, Retrieved 12 August 2014.
  18. Art, Philadelphia Museum of. "Philadelphia Museum of Art – Exhibitions – Live Cinema/Fiona Tan: Inventory". www.philamuseum.org. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
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  29. Kunst, MMK Frankfurt am Main | Museum für Moderne. "Ausstellung Details ::: MMK Frankfurt am Main". mmk-frankfurt.de (in German). Retrieved 2017-03-09.
  30. "Fiona Tan: Disorient – Guggenheim Museum Bilbao". Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. Retrieved 2017-03-09.
  31. Brisbane, Institute of Modern Art. "Fiona Tan". Institute of Modern Art. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
  32. "release". De Pont museum. Archived from the original on 2017-03-15. Retrieved 2017-03-09.
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  34. "Fiona Tan - Exhibitions - Peter Freeman, Inc". www.peterfreemaninc.com. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
  35. "MORI ART MUSEUM [Go-Betweens: The World Seen through Children]Dates: May 31 – August 31, 2014". Retrieved 26 July 2017.
  36. "Paradise". ntu.ccasingapore.org. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
  37. "Exhibition – Future Present". futurepresent.schaulager.org. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
  38. User, Super. "About the Exhibition". rfc.museum. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
  39. "Ecce Homo: The Human Images in Contemporary Art – 2015 – Past Exhibitions – Exhibitions – NMAO：The National Museum of Art, Osaka". www.nmao.go.jp. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
  40. "News from the Getty – Getty Research Institute Announces 2016/2017 Scholars In Residence and Artist In Residence Fiona Tan". news.getty.edu. Retrieved 29 March 2018.
  41. "Past Recipients". International Center of Photography. 2016-05-16. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
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