Fiona Tan
Indonesian sculptor

Fiona Tan

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Indonesian sculptor
Gender:
Female
Places:
Indonesia
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Film director
Work field:
Film, TV, Stage & Radio
Birth:
(Pekanbaru)
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Introduction

Fiona Tan (born 1966 in Pekanbaru, Indonesia), is a visual artist who is primarily known for her photography, film and video installations. Though raised in Australia, she currently lives in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She studied at Gerrit Rietveld Academie and the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunst. In 2016 she directed her debut film, History's Future.

Early life

Fiona Tan was born in 1966 in Pekanbaru, Indonesia. Her father is Chinese and her mother is Australian. Tan spent her early childhood in Melbourne, Australia. In 1988 Tan moved to the Netherlands to study.

Career

Fiona Tan is an artist working primarily with film and video. She is best known for her skillfully crafted and intensely moving installations, in which explorations of identity, memory and history are key.

Select Solo Exhibitions

  • "Fiona Tan - Ascent", De Pont Museum, Tilburg, Netherlands (2017)
  • "Fiona Tan - Geografie der Zeit", Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany (2016-17)
  • "Fiona Tan - Ascent", Izu Photo Museum, Nagaizumi, Japan (2016)
  • "Fiona Tan - Geography of Time", Mudam, Luxembourg (2016)
  • "Fiona Tan - Depot", Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK (2015)
  • "Fiona Tan - Geography of Time", Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo (2015)
  • "Fiona Tan - Inventory", Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia (2014)
  • "Fiona Tan, Terminology", Metropolitan Museum for Photography, Tokyo, then the National Museum of Art, Osaka (2014)
  • Inventory, MAXXI, Rome and Philadelphia Museum of Art (2013)
  • Ellipsis, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan (2013)
  • Point of Departure, CAAC, Sevilla (2012)
  • Vox Populi London, The Photographers' Gallery, London (2012)
  • Disorient, Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art (2012)
  • Vox Populi Switzerland, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris (2011)
  • Rise and Fall, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, DC (2010–11)
  • Frith Street Gallery, London, Vox Populi (2010)
  • Rise and Fall, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau Switzerland, Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada (2010)
  • Disorient – Fiona Tan. She was the representative of the Netherlands at the Dutch Pavilion, 53rd Venice Biennale (2009)
  • Saint Sebastian, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington DC (2009)
  • Provenance, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (2008)
  • Countenance, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA (2008)
  • A Lapse of Memory, Royal Institute of British Architects, London and Frith Street Gallery, London (2007)
  • 80 Tage, Vox Populi, Countenance; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (2007)
  • Short Voyages, Frith Street Gallery, London (2006)
  • Fiona Tan, Saint Sebastian, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montréal, Canada (2005)
  • Time Zones, Tate Modern, London (2004)
  • Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul (2003)
  • Link, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (2003)
  • Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany (2002)
  • Venice Biennale, Venice (2001)
  • Stimuli, Witte de With, Rotterdam (1999)
  • 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg (1997)

Select Group Exhibitions

  • "Ecce Homo", The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan (2016)
  • "NO MAN'S LAND", Rubell Family Collection, Miami, United States (2015-16)
  • "FUTURE PRESENT", Schaulager, Laurenz Foundation, Basel, Switzerland (2015-16)
  • "Paradise Lost", CCA, Singapore (2014)
  • "Go-Betweens", Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (2014)
  • Suspended Histories, Museum van Loon, Amsterdam (2013)
  • Inseldasein, DAAD Galerie, Berlin (2013)
  • 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 (2012)
  • Moving Portraits, De La Warr Pavilion, UK (2011)
  • Expanded Cinema, MMOMA, Moscow (2011)
  • Architectural Environments for Tomorrow, MOT Tokyo (2011)
  • Architecture Biennale, Venice (2010)
  • São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo (2010)
  • Ich zweifellos, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (de), Wolfsburg (2010)
  • Rethink Kakotopia, Nikolaj, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center (2009)
  • Self and Other, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka (2009)
  • Art Unlimited, Art Basel (2008)
  • Breeze, cur. Marja Bloem, Gallery Nelson Freeman, Paris (2008)
  • The Tropics Martin- Gropius-Bau, Berlin (2008)
  • Be(com)ing Dutch Van Abbemuseum, Eidenhoven (2008)
  • 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)
  • Gallery, Berlin; Neue Börse, Frankfurt (2007)

Prizes and awards

2016-17 Getty Artist-in-Residence Fellowship, Los Angeles
2007 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize (nominee)
2004 ICP Infinity Award for Art, New York
2003 Artes Mundi Prize, Cardiff (nominee)

1998 J.C. van Lanschot Prize for sculpture, Belgium/The Netherlands

Residencies

2003 IASPIS grant and residency, Stockholm
2001-02 DAAD scholarship and residency, Berlin