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Fiona Tan

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

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]

Early life and education

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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

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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[9] Grand-Hornu, Belgium in 2019.

In 2009, she represented The Netherlands at the Venice Biennale with the solo presentation Disorient.[10] 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.[11][better source needed]

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).[citation needed]

In 2003 Tan created a poster, Lift, for Transport for London.[12] In 2016 she directed her debut film, History's Future.[3] Her second feature film Ascent premiered at the 2016 Locarno International Film Festival.[13][14] During this year she was also the artist in residence at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, California.[15]

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

Exhibitions

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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.[11]

Solo exhibitions

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Group exhibitions

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  • Go-Betweens, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (2014)[37]
  • Paradise Lost, CCA, Singapore (2014)[38]
  • FUTURE PRESENT, Schaulager, Laurenz Foundation, Basel, Switzerland (2015)[39]
  • NO MAN'S LAND, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, United States (2015)[40]
  • Ecce Homo, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan (2016)[41]

Awards

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  • ICP Infinity Award for Art, New York (2004)[42]
  • Getty Artist-in-Residence Fellowship, Los Angeles (2016)[43]

Publications

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  • 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

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  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. ^ a b "Fiona Tan CV" Archived 2018-10-31 at the Wayback Machine, Frith Street Gallery, Retrieved 30 October 2018.
  6. ^ a b 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. Archived from the original on 2019-09-05. Retrieved 2018-03-03.
  9. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2019-11-02. Retrieved 2020-03-07.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  10. ^ a b "Disorient" Archived 2022-09-29 at the Wayback Machine, Artist's website, Retrieved 18 November 2018.
  11. ^ a b "Fiona Tan biography" (PDF).[dead link]
  12. ^ David Bownes (2018). Poster Girls. london transport museum. ISBN 978-1-871829-28-0.
  13. ^ "Ascent". www.pardolive.ch. Retrieved 2017-03-09.
  14. ^ "Locarno goes Dutch | Nederlands Film Festival". www.filmfestival.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 2017-03-09.
  15. ^ "ASCENT: A film by Fiona Tan (Getty Research Institute)". www.getty.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-03.
  16. ^ "Fiona Tan" Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, Vancouver Art Gallery, Retrieved 12 August 2014.
  17. ^ "Fiona Tan "Rise and Fall" and New Works – ART iT: Japanese-English contemporary art portal site". 9 September 2011. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
  18. ^ Milliard, Colline."Image of a People: Fiona Tan Assembles an Intimate Portrait of London from Old Family Photos" Archived 2014-08-13 at the Wayback Machine, ArtInfo, Retrieved 12 August 2014.
  19. ^ Art, Philadelphia Museum of. "Philadelphia Museum of Art – Exhibitions – Live Cinema/Fiona Tan: Inventory". www.philamuseum.org. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
  20. ^ "No words can describe Tan's 'Terminology' – The Japan Times". 31 July 2014. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
  21. ^ "Fiona Tan Terminology – 2014 – Past Exhibitions – Exhibitions – NMAO：The National Museum of Art, Osaka". www.nmao.go.jp. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
  22. ^ "Fiona Tan: Nellie @ Wako Works of Art – ART iT: Japanese-English contemporary art portal site". 11 August 2014. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
  23. ^ Gallery, Frith Street. "Fiona Tan: Options & Futures. Rabo Kunstzone". Frith Street Gallery. Archived from the original on 2020-04-24. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
  24. ^ "Baltic Plus | Home".
  25. ^ Gallery, Frith Street. "Fiona Tan: Ghost Dwellings - Exhibitions". Frith Street Gallery. Retrieved 2020-03-07.[permanent dead link]
  26. ^ "Oslo: Fiona Tan. Geography of Time". Mynewsdesk. 14 September 2015. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
  27. ^ "Fiona Tan". www.nasjonalmuseet.no. Archived from the original on 5 September 2019. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
  28. ^ "MUDAM: Fiona Tan". www.mudam.lu. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
  29. ^ "IZU PHOTO MUSEUM｜Exhibitions". www.izuphoto-museum.jp. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
  30. ^ Kunst, MMK Frankfurt am Main | Museum für Moderne. "Ausstellung Details ::: MMK Frankfurt am Main". mmk-frankfurt.de (in German). Archived from the original on 2018-06-15. Retrieved 2017-03-09.
  31. ^ "Fiona Tan: Disorient – Guggenheim Museum Bilbao". Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. Retrieved 2017-03-09.
  32. ^ Brisbane, Institute of Modern Art. "Fiona Tan". Institute of Modern Art. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
  33. ^ "release". De Pont museum. Archived from the original on 2017-03-15. Retrieved 2017-03-09.
  34. ^ Gallery, Frith Street. "Fiona Tan: Elsewhere - Exhibitions". Frith Street Gallery. Retrieved 2020-03-07.[permanent dead link]
  35. ^ "Fiona Tan - Exhibitions - Peter Freeman, Inc". www.peterfreemaninc.com. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
  36. ^ "Exhibitions".
  37. ^ "MORI ART MUSEUM [Go-Betweens: The World Seen through Children]Dates: May 31 – August 31, 2014". Retrieved 26 July 2017.
  38. ^ "Paradise". ntu.ccasingapore.org. Archived from the original on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
  39. ^ "Exhibition – Future Present". futurepresent.schaulager.org. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
  40. ^ "About the Exhibition". rfc.museum. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
  41. ^ "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.
  42. ^ "Past Recipients". International Center of Photography. 2016-05-16. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
  43. ^ "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.

Further reading

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  • 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.
  • Grosenick, Uta; Riemschneider, Burkhard, eds. (2005). Art Now (25th anniversary ed.). Köln: Taschen. pp. 304–307. ISBN 9783822840931. OCLC 191239335.
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