Fiona Tan

Tan, Fiona
Born 1966
Pekanbaru, Indonesia
Nationality Indonesian
Known for video and film installations
Website www.fionatan.nl

Fiona Tan (born 1966 in Pekanbaru, Indonesia), is a visual artist who is primarily known for her photography, film and video installations. She is best known for her skillfully crafted and intensely moving installations, in which explorations of identity, memory and history are key.[1] 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.[2]

In 2009, she represented The Netherlands at the Venice Biennale with the solo presentation ‘Disorient’. She has 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.[2]

Early life

Fiona Tan was born in 1966 in Pekanbaru, Indonesia, to an Indonesian Chinese father and Australian mother.[3] Tan spent her early childhood in Melbourne, Australia.[3] Tan has been living in Europe in 1984. She currently lives in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and in Los Angeles, US.[4]

Education and Artistic practice

Tan studied at Gerrit Rietveld Academie and the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunst.[5][6]

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

In 2016 she directed her debut film, History's Future.[3] Her second feature film Ascent premiered at the 2016 Locarno International Film Festival.[7][8] Tan was artist in residence (2016–17) at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles.[4][9]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions include "Fiona Tan – Geography of Time", Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel (2017); "Fiona Tan – Ascent", De Pont Museum, Tilburg, Netherlands (2017) [10]; "Fiona Tan – Geography of Time", Mudam, Luxembourg (2016) [11]; "Fiona Tan – Ascent", Izu Photo Museum, Nagaizumi, Japan (2016) [12]; "Fiona Tan – Geografie der Zeit", Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany (2016) [13]; "Fiona Tan: Disorient", Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (2016)[14]; "Fiona Tan – Geography of Time", Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo (2015)[15]; "Fiona Tan – Depot", Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK (2015)[16]; "Fiona Tan, Terminology", Metropolitan Museum for Photography, Tokyo,[17] then the National Museum of Art, Osaka (2014)[18]; "Fiona Tan – Inventory", Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia (2014)[19]; Ellipsis, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan (2013); Inventory, MAXXI, Rome and Philadelphia Museum of Art (2013)[20]; Disorient, Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art (2012); Vox Populi London, The Photographers' Gallery, London (2012)[21]; Point of Departure, CAAC, Sevilla (2012); Vox Populi Switzerland, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris (2011); Rise and Fall, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau Switzerland, Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada (2010) [22]; Frith Street Gallery, London, Vox Populi (2010); Rise and Fall, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, DC (2010); Saint Sebastian, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington DC (2009); Disorient – Fiona Tan. She was the representative of the Netherlands at the Dutch Pavilion, 53rd Venice Biennale (2009); Countenance, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA (2008); Provenance, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (2008); 80 Tage, Vox Populi, Countenance; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (2007); A Lapse of Memory, Royal Institute of British Architects, London and Frith Street Gallery, London (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).

Group exhibitions include "Ecce Homo", The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan (2016) [23]; "NO MAN'S LAND", Rubell Family Collection, Miami, United States (2015) [24]; "FUTURE PRESENT", Schaulager, Laurenz Foundation, Basel, Switzerland (2015) [25]; "Paradise Lost", CCA, Singapore (2014) [26]; "Go-Betweens", Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (2014) [27]; 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, Switzerland (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); ão Paulo Biennial, São Paulo (2010); Ich zweifellos, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg (2010); Rethink Kakotopia, Nikolaj, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center (2009); Self and Other, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka (2009); 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); and Gallery, Berlin; Neue Börse, Frankfurt (2007).

Prizes and awards

Fiona Tan received several international prizes and awards, including Getty Artist-in-Residence Fellowship, Los Angeles (2016)[28]; Deutsche Börse Photography Prize (nominee) (2007); ICP Infinity Award for Art, New York (2004); 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.

References

  1. ↑ "Introducing", FionaTan.nl, Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  2. 1 2 "Fiona Tan biography" (PDF).
  3. 1 2 Guy Nichols, Matthew. "Fiona Tan", Art in America, Retrieved 12 August 2014.
  4. 1 2 "News from the Getty | Getty Research Institute Announces 2016/2017 Scholars In Residence and Artist In Residence Fiona Tan". news.getty.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-09.
  5. ↑ Tan, Fiona (c. 2009). Rise and Fall. Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery. p. 103. ISBN 9781895442793.
  6. ↑ "Fiona Tan". www.nasjonalmuseet.no. Retrieved 2018-03-03.
  7. ↑ "Ascent". www.pardolive.ch. Retrieved 2017-03-09.
  8. ↑ "Locarno goes Dutch | Nederlands Film Festival". www.filmfestival.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 2017-03-09.
  9. ↑ "ASCENT: A film by Fiona Tan (Getty Research Institute)". www.getty.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-03.
  10. ↑ "release". De Pont museum. Retrieved 2017-03-09.
  11. ↑ "MUDAM: Fiona Tan". www.mudam.lu. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
  12. ↑ "IZU PHOTO MUSEUM｜Exhibitions". www.izuphoto-museum.jp. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
  13. ↑ Kunst, MMK Frankfurt am Main | Museum für Moderne. "Ausstellung Details ::: MMK Frankfurt am Main". mmk-frankfurt.de (in German). Retrieved 2017-03-09.
  14. ↑ "Fiona Tan: Disorient – Guggenheim Museum Bilbao". Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. Retrieved 2017-03-09.
  15. ↑ "Fiona Tan". www.nasjonalmuseet.no. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
  16. ↑ http://balticplus.uk/?search=fiona+tan
  17. ↑ "No words can describe Tan's 'Terminology' – The Japan Times". Retrieved 26 July 2017.
  18. ↑ "Fiona Tan Terminology – 2014 – Past Exhibitions – Exhibitions – NMAO：The National Museum of Art, Osaka". www.nmao.go.jp. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
  19. ↑ Art, Philadelphia Museum of. "Philadelphia Museum of Art – Exhibitions – Live Cinema/Fiona Tan: Inventory". www.philamuseum.org. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
  20. ↑ "Fiona Tan. Inventory", MAXXI Museum, Retrieved 29 March 2018.
  21. ↑ Milliard, Colline. "Image of a People: Fiona Tan Assembles an Intimate Portrait of London from Old Family Photos", ArtInfo, Retrieved 12 August 2014.
  22. ↑ "Fiona Tan", Vancouver Art Gallery, Retrieved 12 August 2014.
  23. ↑ "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.
  24. ↑ User, Super. "About the Exhibition". rfc.museum. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
  25. ↑ "Exhibition – Future Present". futurepresent.schaulager.org. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
  26. ↑ "Paradise". ntu.ccasingapore.org. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
  27. ↑ "MORI ART MUSEUM [Go-Betweens: The World Seen through Children]Dates: May 31 – Augusut 31, 2014". Retrieved 26 July 2017.
  28. ↑ "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.
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