Fiona Tan

Fiona Tan studied at Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten. The recorded working language is Indonesian. The field of work recorded is video art. Places of work recorded in the authority are Amsterdam. Work by Fiona Tan is recorded in the collections of Tate, Philadelphia Museum of Art, De Pont, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Museum Arnhem. Distinctions recorded are Spectrum – Internationaler Preis für Fotografie.

• Name — Fiona Tan • Born — 1966 • Birthplace — Pekanbaru, Indonesia • Field — video art and film installations • Education — Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam • Website — http: www.fionatan.nl/

Fiona Tan was born in 1966 in Pekanbaru, Indonesia, to an Indonesian Chinese father and Australian mother. Tan spent her early childhood in Melbourne, Australia. In 1984 she moved to Europe, where she has resided since. Between 1988 and 1992 Tan studied at Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. Between 1996-1997 she also studied at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunst.

section 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.

• Disorient, Dutch Pavilion, 53rd Venice Biennale (2009) • Rise and Fall, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (2010) • Rise and Fall, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (2011) • Vox Populi London, The Photographers' Gallery, London (2012) • Inventory, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia (2013-2014) • Terminology, Metropolitan Museum for Photography, Tokyo (2014) • Terminology, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan (2014) • Nellie, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (2014) • Options & Futures, Rabo Kunstzone, Utrecht, Netherlands (2014) • Depot, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK (2015) • Ghost Dwellings, Frith Street Gallery Soho Square, London (2015) • Geography of Time, Norwegian Museum of Contemporary Art (2015-2016) • Geography of Time, MUDAM, Luxembourg (2016) • Ascent, Izu Photo Museum, Nagaizumi, Japan (2016) • Geography of Time, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany (2016-2017) • Disorient, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Abando, Spain (2016-2017) • Nellie, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia (2017) • Ascent, De Pont Museum, Tilburg, Netherlands (2017) • Time and Memory, Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía, Spain (2018) • Elsewhere, Frith Street Gallery, London (2018-2019) • Archive / Ruins, Peter Freeman, Inc., New York (2020) • Fiona Tan - With the Other Hand, Museum der Moderne Salzburg (2020) • Fiona Tan - With the Other Hand, Kunsthalle Krems (2020) • Fiona Tan - Mountains and Molehills, Eye Film Institute Netherlands, Amsterdam (2022) • Fiona Tan: Footsteps, Frith Street Gallery, London (2023) • Fiona Tan: Footsteps, Museum of the Moving Image, New York (2024) • Fiona Tan: Monomania, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (2025)

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