Born in 1966 in Pekan Baru, Indonesia
Lives and works in the Netherlands
Education
1988–1992
Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
1996–1997
Rijksakademie van beeldende kunst, Amsterdam
Solo Exhibitions
2009
"Rise and Fall" Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver (CA)
2008
"Island" Birger Jarlsgatan 18A, Stockholm (SE)
Le Carré, La Chapelle du Genêtell Centre d'art Contemporain, Château-Gontier (FR)
"Provenance" Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (NL), (cat.)
Sherman Foundation, Sydney (AU)
2007
"News from the Near Future" Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (JP)
"80 Days" Pinakothek der Moderne, Münich (DE)
"A Lapse of Memory" Royal Institute of British Architects, London (UK)
"Time and Again" Lunds Konsthall, Lunds (SE)
2006
"Short Voyages" Frith Street Gallery, London (UK)
Art Gallery of York University, Toronto (CA)
"Mirrormaker" Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense (DK); Landesgalerie, Linz (AT); Kunstmuseum, Bergen (NO); Museum of Art, Pori (FI), (cat.)
2005
Musee d'Art Contemporain, Montreal (CA)
"Countenance" (and other works), Modern Art Oxford, Oxford (UK)
Baltic Art Center, Visby (SW)
2004
"Correction" Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (US), (cat.)
IASPIS Gallery, Stockholm (SW)
Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (JP)
2003
Fiona Tan, Frith Street Gallery, London (UK)
Villa Arson, Nice (FR)
Depont Foundation, Tilburg (NL)
Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin (DE)
DAAD Galerie, Berlin (DE)
2002
"Fiona Tan - akte 1" Villa Arson Nice, Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Nice (FR); De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg (NL); Akademie der Kunsten, Berlin (DE)
2001
"Fiona Tan, recent works" Galerie Michel Rein, Paris (FR)
"Matrix 144" Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT (US)
"Art Unlimited" Art Basel 32, Basel, (CH)
Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (JP)
2000
"Facing Forward" Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milan (IT)
"Scenario" Kunstverein Hamburg (DE)
"Carwreck Cinema" Aussendienst Hamburg (DE)
"Lift" Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam (NL)
"Fiona Tan, monographic presentation, Contemporary film and video" Moderna Museet, Stockholm (SW)
1999
"Roll I & II" Museum De Pont, Tilburg (NL)
"Fiona Tan" De Begane Grond, Utrecht (NL)
"Cradle" Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam (NL)
"Smoke Screen" De Balie, Amsterdam (NL)
1998
"J.C. Van Lanschot Prijs" S.M.A.K., Ghent (BE), (cat.)
"Linneaus' Flower Clock" Stedelijk Museum Het Domein, Sittard (NL)
1997
Open studio, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunst, Amsterdam (NL)
1996
Open studio, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunst, Amsterdam (NL)
1995
"Inside Out" Montevideo, Galerie Rene Coelho, Amsterdam (NL)
Group Exhibitions
2008
"Prospect.1 New Orleans" New Orleans, LA (US)
"Self and Other: Portraits from Asia and Europe" The National Museum of Ethonology, Osaka; National Museum of Art Osaka; Fukuoka Asian Art Museum; [2009] Kanagawa Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura and Hayama (JP)
"Dome: Artist's Attempts around the Monument" Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima (JP)
"Wako Works of Art: 15 Years - Part III" Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (JP)
"Greenwashing. Environment: Perils, Promises and Perplexities" Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (IT)
"Be(com)ing Dutch" Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (NL)
"Os Trópicos/The Tropics" Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Brasília (BR); Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin (DE); National Gallery of Cape Town, Cape Town (ZA), (cat.)
2007
"Deutsche Börse Photography Prize" exhibition, The Photographer's Gallery, London (UK); Berlin Gallery, Berlin (DE); Neue Borse, Frankurt (DE)
"L'oeil-Écran Ou La Nouvelle Image" Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg (LX)
"Contour / Continuïteit, Heden en Verleden" Stedelijk Museum Het Prinsenhof, Delft (NL)
"An Interpersonal Journey" Santralistanbul, Istanbul (TR)
"Cine y casi cine" Museo Nactional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía MNCARS, Madrid (ES)
"Existencias" Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León (ES)
"Biennial of Moving Images" Center for Contemporary Images, Geneva (CH)
"The Tropics: Views from the Middle of the Globe" Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Brasília (BR)
"Global Multitude" curated by Hou Hanru, Rotonde 1, Luxembourg Ville (LU)
2006
15th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney (AU), (cat.)
"Work Groups and Installations" Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel (CH)
"Home Productions" Singapore Art Museum (SG)
"The Shadow" Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Sienna (IT); Museo d'Arte Provincia di Nuoro (IT); Compton Verney, Warwickshire, England (UK)
"Touch My Shadows: New Media from the Goetz Collection" The Centre for Contemporary Art – Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw (PO)
2005
Melbourne Festival, Australian Center for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (AU)
"Sujeto" Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon, Leon (ES)
Art Unlimited, Art Basel, Basel (CH)
"Shadow Play" Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense (DK); Kunsthalle Kiel (DE); Landesgalerie Linz (AT)
HXBXD Rabobank Kunstcollectie, GEM - Museum voor Actuele Kunst, The Hague (NL)
"Screen Tests" Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam (NL)
"Ocean 1212-W" Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan (IT)
2004
"Time Zones" Tate Modern, London (UK)
Artes Mundi Prize, National Museum and Gallery of Wales, Cardiff (UK)
"+Witness" Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (AU)
"Synopsis III" National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (GR)
ev+a 2004, Imagine Limerick, Limerick, Ireland (UK)
2003
Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul (TR)
"Strangers: The First ICP Triennial of Photography and Video" International Center of Photography, New York, NY (US), (cat.)
"Home and Away" Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver (CA)
"Link" Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (NL)
"Appel a temoins" Le Quartier, Centre d'art contemporaine de Quimper (FR)
"Split" Bard College, NY (US)
"ID" Nils Staerk Contemporary Art, Copenhagen (DK)
"Warum!" Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin (DE)
"Rijksakademie" Victoria Miro Gallery, London (UK)
"Kingdom of Shadows" International Film Festival, Rotterdam (NL)
"Shine" Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (NL)
"Contour" Mechelen (BE)
"About Land, Sea and Faces" Erasmus House, Jakarta (ID)
2002
"Platform 5" Documenta 11, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel (DE)
"Rijksakademie" Victoria Miro Gallery, London (UK)
2001
"Thin Skin" ICI, AXA Gallery, New York, NY (US); Scottsdale, AZ (US); Gemeentemuseum Helmond (NL); Mc Allen, TX (US); Chicago, IL (US); Wichita, KS (US)
"Mobile Walls" recent acquisitions, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam (NL)
"Endtroducing" Villa Arson Nice (FR)
"Berlin Biennale 2" Berlin (DE), (cat.)
"Biennale di Venezia" 49. Esposizione Internationale d'Arte, 'Plateau of Mankind' Venice (IT), (cat.)
"Recente aanwinsten" Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (NL)
"Yokohama 2001" International Triennial of Contemporary Art, Yokohama (JP), (cat.)
"Futureland" Museum Abteiberg, Msnchengladbach (DE); Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo (NL), (cat.)
"Enduring Love" Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc., New York, NY (US) Beuningen Rotterdam5 (NL)
"My generation 24 hours of video art" curated by Mark Nash and Alexandre Pollazzon, Atlantis Gallery, London (UK)
"Sculpture Contemporaine" Institut d'art contemporain, Lyon (FR)
2000
"Cinema Without Walls" Musuem Boijmans van Beuningen Rotterdam (NL)
"Fiona Tan" Béro Friedrich, Berlin (DE)
"Everything needs time.." St. Michael's Church, Honiton Festival, Exeter (UK)
"Etat des lieux # 2" Centre d'art Contemporain, Fribourg (CH)
"Et l'art se met au monde" Institute d'art contemporain, Villeurbanne (FR)
"Finsternis/Finsterre" Palazzo delle Pappesse, Pisa (IT)
"Still/Moving" Museum of Modern Art Kyoto (JP)
"hers, Video as a Female Terrain" Steirisc[:her:]bst, Landesmuseum Johanneum, Graz (AT), (cat.)
"Kingdom of Shadows" 2000, a documentary by Fiona Tan, screened in national cinemas and at the IDFA in Amsterdam
"Shanghai Spirit, Shanghai Biennale 2000" Shanghai Art Museum (CN)
1999
"Go Away" Royal College of Art, London (UK), (cat.)
"Cities on the Move" Hayward Gallery, London (UK); Louisiana Museum (DK), (cat.); Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki (FI)
"Zug (luft)" Museum Kurhaus Kleve (DE)
"The Power of Beauty" Gemeentemuseum Helmond (NL)
"Life Cycles" Galerie fur Zeitgenossische Kunst, Leipzig (DE)
"The Second" Ludwig Museum, Budapest (HU)
"International Biennale of Photography" Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City (MX)
"8e Biennale de l'Image en mouvement" Centre pour l'Image Contemporaine, Geneva (CH)
"Stimuli" Witte de With, Rotterdam (NL)
1998
"unlimited.nl" De Appel, Amsterdam (NL), (cat.)
"Rineke Dijkstra, Tracey Moffatt, Fiona Tan" S.M.A.K., Ghent (BE), (cat.)
"Entre-fiction" Centre d'Art Contemporaine Rueil-Malmaison (FR), (cat.)
"Biennale de l'image Paris '98" E.N.S.B.A, Paris (FR), (cat.)
"Scope" Artist Space, New York, NY (US)
"Traces of Science in Art" Het Trippenhuis, Amsterdam (NL), (cat.)
"World Wide Video Festival" Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam / De Melkweg (NL), (cat.)
"+8 +7 +3 +1 -1 -5" Glass Box, Paris; I.A.I., Moscow (RU)
"Power Up" Gemeentemuseum Arnhem (NL), (cat.)
"Deplacements" Galerie Anton Weller, Paris (FR)
"Cities on the Move" PS1 Contemporary Art, New York, NY (US); CAPC Musee d'art contemporain de Bordeaux (FR), (cat.)
1997
"The Second - Time Based Art from the Netherlands" Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Museo Del Chopo (MX); Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan (CN); NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo (JP), (cat.)
"Hong Kong - Parfumed Harbour" De Appel, Amsterdam (NL)
"2nd Johannesburg Biennale" Johannesburg (ZA)
"Cities on the Move" Wiener Secession, Vienna (AT), (cat.)
1996
"hARTware - Dutch Media Art in the 90s" Kunstlerhaus, Dortmund (DE)
1995
"Beyond the Bridge" Nederlands Film Museum, Amsterdam (NL), (cat.)
"Arslab - I sensi del Virtuale" Palazzo della Belli Arti, Torino (IT), (cat.)
1994
Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (NL)
Awards & Grants
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 Debut Film, the Netherlands Film Festival
1996
Prix de Rome, Film/Video: nominee
