Fiona tan disorient at 53rd la biennale di venezia 2009
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. 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 Artgallery, 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, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.
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, Sao 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 Pompidou, Paris.
Ascent a conversation with fiona tan
Early life
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. Tan has been living in Europe in 1984. She currently lives in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and in Los Angeles, US.
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. Currently Tan is artist in residence at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles.
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
