Fiona Tan

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Born: Pekan Baru, Indonesia
Lives: and works in Amsterdam

Education
1988-92 Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
1996-97 Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunst, Amsterdam

Solo Exhibitions
2010 ( forthcoming)
The Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
Aargauer Kunsthaus, Switzerland
Fiona Tan, SCAF Foundation, Sydney

2009
Saint Sebastian, Freer & Sackler Galleries, Washington DC
Fiona Tan, Peter Freeman Inc., New York
Fiona Tan: Rise and Fall, Vancouver Art Gallery / Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau / Freer & Sackler Galleries, Washington DC
Dutch Pavilion at the 53rd International Art Exhibition

2008
Provenance, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (cat.)
Fiona Tan, Chapelle du Gen�teil Centre d�Art Contemporain � Le Carr� Sc�ne Nationale, Ch�teau-Gontier (exhib. leaflet)
Island, MAP Birger Jarlsgatan, Stockholm

2007
A Lapse of Memory, Royal Institute of British Architects, London
News from the Near Future, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo
80 Tage, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
Time and Again, Lund Konsthall, Lund (cat.)

2006
Fiona Tan, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto (cat.)
Mirror Maker, Kunsthallen Brandts Kl�defabrik, Odense / Landesgalerie, Linz / Kunstmuseum, Bergen (Norway) / (2007) Pori Art Museum, Pori (cat.)
Short Voyages, Frith Street Gallery, London

2005
Countenance, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford (cat.)
Fiona Tan, Baltic Art Center, Visby (cat.)
Fiona Tan, Saint Sebastian, Mus�e d�Art Contemporain, Montr�al (cat.)

2004
Correction, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago / (2005) New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York / Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center at UCLA, Los Angeles (cat.)
Fiona Tan, IASPIS Gallery, Stockholm
Fiona Tan, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo

2003
New and Recent Works, Frith Street Gallery, London

2002-2003
Fiona Tan - akte 1, Villa Arson Nice � Centre National d�Art Contemporain, Nice / (2003) De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg / Daadgalerie , Berlin (cat.)

2001
Matrix 144, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut
Rain, Galerie Elisabeth Kaufmann, Zurich
Recent Works, Galerie Michel Rein, Paris

2000
Carwreck Cinema, Aussendienst, Hamburg (cat.)
Scenario, Kunstverein Hamburg (cat.)
Linnaeus� Flower Clock, Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milan

1999
Roll I & II, De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg
Smoke Screen, De Balie, Amsterdam

1998
J.C. van Lanschot Prijs, SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Aktuele Kunst, Ghent
Linneaus� Flower Clock, Stedelijk Museum Het Domein, Sittard

1996-1997
Open Studio, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdamla Biennale di Venezia
labiennale.org

Group Exhibitions
2008-2009
Self and Other: Portraits from Asia and Europe, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka / National Museum of Art, Osaka / Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka / The Museum of Modern Art, Hayama / Prefectural Museum of Cultural History, Kanagawa (cat.)
Os Tr�picos/The Tropics, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Bras�lia / Rio de Janeiro / Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin / National Gallery of Cape Town, Cape Town (cat.)

2008
Be(com)ing Dutch, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven
Breeze, Galerie Nelson Freeman, Paris
Cin�ma du r�el, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Dome, Hiroshima Museum of Modern Art, Hiroshima
�clats de fronti�res � recent acquisitions, FRAC, Marseille
Greenwashing, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
Geschlossene Gesellschaft, KunstWerke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
Inaugural exhibition, Inelcom Collection, Madrid
Peripheral Vision and Collective Body (inaugural exhibition), Museion, Bolzano
Prospect.1, New Orleans Biennial, New Orleans (cat.)
15 Years/Part III, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo

2007
Cine y Casi Cine 2007, Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid
Culture hors-sol, BAC (B�timent d�art contemporain), Geneva
Deutsche B�rse Photography Prize 07, The Photographers� Gallery, London / C/O Gallery, Berlin / Neue B�rse, Frankfurt (cat.)
Global Multitude, Rotonde 1, Luxemburg (cat.)
International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam
Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris
The Screen Eye or The New Image/L�Oeil-�cran ou la nouvelle image, Casino Luxemburg � Forum d�art contemporain, Luxemburg / National Museum of Contemporary Art of Bucharest
Vet�t�s, The Projection Project, M�csarnok, Budapest

2006
2006 Biennale of Sydney, Zones of contact, Sydney (cat.)
Home Productions, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
The Projection Project, Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp
Touch My Shadows, New media works from the Goetz Collection, Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw
Work Groups and Installations, Kunstmuseum Basel, Museum f�r Gegenwartskunst, Basel

2005
Art Today Japan, The 8th Nippon international contemporary Art Festival, Tokyo, International Forum, Tokyo (cat.)
Indeterminate States � Video from the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami
Recent Acquisitions, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Nuit Blanche, Paris
Ocean 1212-W, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan
Oeuvre politique et politique de l�oevre, Institut Fran�ais, Casablanca
Respect! Forms of community/Formes de cohabitation, Mus�e Dar Si Sa�d, Marrakech (cat.)
Screen Tests, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam
Sujeto, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y L�on, L�on (cat.)
Videocreaci�n contempor�nea, Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid

2004-2007
Memorials of Identity � New Media from the Rubell Family Collection, The Art Gallery at Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers / Rubell Family Collection, Miami / (2005) The Corcoran Gallery of Art & College of Art + Design, Washington / (2006) Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico Santurce, Puerto Rico / Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University Durham / (2007) Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa (cat. 2006)

2004
Artes Mundi, Wales International Visual Art Prize, National Museum and Gallery of Wales, Cardiff (cat.)
Time Zones, Recent film and video, Tate Modern, London (cat.)
+Witness, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (cat.)

2003-2004
Home and Away, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver (cat.)
Synopsis 3, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (cat.)

2003
Appel � t�moins, Le Quartier, Centre d�art contemporain de Quimper (cat.)
Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul (cat.)
Link, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (cat.)
Rijksakademie, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
Shine, Wensdroom en toekomstvisioen in de hedendaagse kunst, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (cat.)
Split, Bard College, New York
Strangers: The First ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, International Center of Photography, New York (cat.)

2002
Documenta XI, Kassel (cat.)
Tele-Journeys, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts

2001
2nd Berlin Biennale, Berlin (cat.)
Endtroducing, Villa Arson, Nice (cat.)
Mobile Walls � Recent Acquisitions, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Nuove Scene dall�Olanda, Castello di Rivoli, Turin
Recent Acquisitions, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Venice Biennale (main exhib. Platea dell�Umanit�), Venice (cat.)
Yokohama 2001, International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Megawave, Towards a new synthesis, Yokohama (cat.)

2000
Art Unlimited, Art Basel, Basel
Cinema Without Walls, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Etat des lieux # 2, Centre d�Art Contemporain, Fribourg
Et l�art se met au monde, Institut d�Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne (exhib. leaflet)
Finsternis/Finsterre, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena
Shanghai Biennale (�Shanghai Spirit�), Shanghai Art Museum (cat.)
StillMoving, The Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (cat.)

1999
8me Biennale de l�Image en Mouvement, Centre pour l�Image Contemporaine, Geneva (cat.)
Go Away: Artists and Travel, Royal College of Art Galleries, London (cat.)
International Biennale of Photography, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City (cat.)
Life Cycles, Galerie f�r Zeitgen�ssische Kunst, Leipzig (cat.)

1998
Power Up, Tussen ervaring en verwachting, Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem (cat.)
Rineke Dijkstra, Tracey Moffatt, Fiona Tan, SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Aktuele Kunst, Ghent
Sporen van wetenschap in kunst/Traces of Science in Art, Het Trippenhuis KNAW, Amsterdam (cat.)
Unlimited.nl, De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam (exhib. leaflet)
World Wide Video Festival, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (cat.)

1997
Cities on the Move, Wiener Secession, Vienna / (1998) CAPC Mus�e d�Art Contemporain de Bordeaux / PS1 Contemporary Art, New York / (1999) Hayward Gallery, London / Louisiana Museum, Humleb�k / Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki (cat. 1997 & 1999)
2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg (cat.)
The Second Time-Based Art from the Netherlands, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam / Museo Del Chopo, Mexico City / Fine Arts Museum, Taipei / InterCommunication Center, Tokyo (cat.)



Bibliography
Catalogues, Articles ( Recent )

2008
Bezzan, C., �Fiona Tan�, Artpress 348, September, pp. 81-82
Hochleitner, M., �Wir tragen alle Bilder in uns�, Kunst und Kirche 01, pp. 32-35
Lamoree. J., �Een echo van de zeventiende eeuw�, Het Parool, August 27
Malm, M., �Fiona Tan, Island�, exhib. leaflet, Mobile Art Production, Stockholm
Smith, R., �Kaleidoscopic Biennial for a Scarred City, The New York Times, November 4
Vries, M. de, �Liever geen meesterwerken�, de Volkskrant, August 21
Yoshida, K. & B. Durrans (ed.), cat. Self and Other: Portraits from Asia and Europe, The Asahi Shimbun, Osaka, ill. pp. 250-251

2007
Museumtijdschrift 20, no. 1, January-February, pp. 48-49
Kwakkenbos, L., �Als film kunst wordt�, De Standaard, January 15
Mac Giolla Leith, C,, �Fiona Tan: �Photos are my Mirror��, in: cat. Deutsche B�rse Photography Prize 07, The Photographers� Gallery, London, pp. 81-103, 124-129, 135, cover
Michel, R., �Tan et la femme phallique�, in: cat. L�Oeil-�cran ou la nouvelle image, Luxembourg, pp. 70-75
Nordgren, I., �Poetisk Tan lyckas inte engagera�, Kristianstadsbladet, December 12

2006
AP, �Super-hot videokunstner�, Alt for Damerne, April 20
Coetzee, M. & L. Lagos (eds.), �Fiona Tan. Facing Forward: Backwards into the future�, in: cat. Memorials of Identity � New Media from the Rubell Family Collection, Miami, pp. 132-146
Cumming, L., �As exciting as daytime TV�, The Observer, September
Fauskanger, K., �Blikket utenfra�, Bergens Tidende, September 20, pp. 60-61
Field, M., �Films for people who don�t like video art�, The Independent, October
Imanse, G. (ed.), Aanwinsten/Acquisitions 1993-2003 Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (cat. no. 879), Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, p. 262
Kent, R., �Fiona Tan, Vox Populi�, in: cat. 2006 Biennale of Sydney, Zones of contact, Biennale of Sydney, pp. 266-267
Richter, M., �Fiona Tan: Mirror Maker�, Camera Austria 96, pp. 71-72

2005
Alphen, E. van, �Shooting images, throwing shadows� in Art in Mind, University of Chicago Press, Chicago
Arkesteijn, R., �Fiona Tan, Personal anthropology�, in: cat. Respect! Forms of community/Formes de cohabitation, Mus�e Dar Si Sa�d, Marrakech, pp. 98-105
Bonin, V., �L�emploi du temps: travail et d�soeuvrement dans Countenance de Fiona Tan�, CV ciel variable 67, June, pp. 14-15
Cumming, L., �Are you looking at me?�, The Observer, April
Dykstra, J., �Fiona Tan at the New Museum of Contemporary Art�, Art in America, November
Gefter, Ph., �Is That Portrait Staring at Me?�, The New York Times, April 10
Gregos, Katerina, �Moving images at the edge of the real�, Contemporary, no. 71
Hellman, M., �Rite de passage�, Le Devoir, May 28
Honigman, A.F., �Where do I belong?�, ArtReview 56, April, pp. 78-81
MUSAC, cat. Sujeto, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y L�on, L�on, pp. 52-57
Noordegraaf, J., �Indi� in de achteruitkijkspiegel�, Jong Holland 21, no. 4, pp.24-32
Quaroni, I., �Ocean 1212-W - Raffaella Cortese�, Flash Art 38, no. 252, June-July, pp. 121-122
Searle, A., �Who are you?�, The Guardian, April
Simmons, L., �Are you looking at me?�, The Observer, April 10



Grants/Awards
2007
Deutsche Borse Photography Prize, nominee

2004
ICP Infinity Award for Art, New York
Artes Mundi Prize, Cardiff, Wales: nominee

2003
IASPIS grant and residency, Stockholm

2001-02
DAAD scholarship and residency, Berlin

1998
J.C. Van Lanschot Prize for Sculpture, Belgium/the Netherlands, First Prize

1997
Prize for the best national debutfilm, the Netherlands Filmfestival

1996
Prix de Rome, Film/Video: nominee



Publications
2008
Provenance, artist�s book, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam / Nieuw Amsterdam Uitgevers

2007
Fiona Tan, Vox Populi, Tokyo, artist�s book, Book Works, London, with text by C. Keuleman
Time and Again. Fiona Tan, Lunds Konsthall, Lund, with text by F. Tan

2006
Fiona Tan, Vox Populi, Sydney, artist�s book, Book Works, London, with text by R. Kent
Fiona Tan, Vox Populi, Norway, artist�s book, Book Works, London, with text by S. Cotter
Fiona Tan � Mirror Maker (T. Sadowsky, M. Hochleitner, C. Higgis & F. Tan, eds.), Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, with texts by T. Sadowsky, M. Hochleitner, D.E. Elgin & F. Tan
Disassembling the Archive: Fiona Tan, by Ph. Monk, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto/Distributed Art Publishers Inc., New York

2005
Fiona Tan, Countenance (S. Cotter, ed.), Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, with texts by S. Cotter, A. Nairne & M. Godfrey
Fiona Tan, cat. Baltic Art Center, Visby, with texts by A. Fletcher & J. Pousette
Fiona Tan, Saint Sebastian, by P. Landry, Mus�e d�Art Contemporain, Montr�al

2004
Fiona Tan, Correction, cat. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago / New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York / Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center at UCLA, Los Angeles, with texts by F. Bonami, T. Jackson, J. Rodriguez Widholm, F. Tan & J. Snyder
Fiona Tan, Correction, by J. Rodrigues Widholm, exhib. leaflet Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

2002
Fiona Tan, akte 1, cat. De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg, with texts by B. von Bismarck, E. Hoek & F. Tan (4 editions: Dutch, English, French and German)
Marebito, artist�s book, Wako Works of Art & Fiona Tan, Berlin/Tokyo, with texts by F. Tan, Nosongdang, C.J. Coen & H. Schliemann

2000
Fiona Tan, Scenario (G. Franziska G�tz & M. van den Berg, ed.), NAi Publishers, Rotterdam, with texts by L. Cooke, J. Berger, F. Tan, O. van den Boogaard, H. Honigmann, & S. Schmidt-Wulffen
Fiona Tan, Scenario, cat. Kunstverein Hamburg, with texts by S. Schmidt-Wulffen & F. Tanla Biennale di Venezia