Frith Street Gallery

b. 1966, Pekan Baru, Indonesia

Fiona Tan works within the contested territory of representation: how we represent ourselves and the mechanisms that determine how we interpret the representation of others. Photography and film – made by herself, by others, or a combination of both – are her mediums; research, classification and the archive, her strategies in skilfully crafting moving and intensely human works, expanded film and video installations, that explore history and time and our place within it.

Fiona Tan’s ‘Provenance’ was shown at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum in 2008. A major exhibition of the artist’s work is planned for Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau Switzerland May – September 2009 – this will travel to the Vancouver Art Gallery later in the year. Recent notable group exhibitions include Sujeto Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon in 2005; Istanbul Biennial 2003; ICP Triennial, New York; Documenta 11, Kassel; the 49th Venice Biennale and the Berlin Biennale, 2001. Fiona Tan was short listed for the first Artes Mundi Prize in 2003.

Fiona Tan has been chosen by the Mondriaan Foundation as the Dutch representative at the 53rd Venice Biennale 7th June to 22nd November 2009. Find out more at Fiona Tan’s Venice website

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