Frith Street Gallery: artists

Fiona Tan's works engage the traditional dialectic between the ethnographic claim to veritable objectivity of unprejudiced witness and the personal travelogue as the search for the subjective. She draws on photographic and filmic footage and combines the two in expanded film and video installations. Crossing the threshold of early 20th Century missionaries' and travellers' reportages, which served to reinforce the sense of 'place' of Africans and Asians in the colonial hierarchy of power, Tan interlinks personal and social formations of identity.

Tan was short listed for The Deutsche Borse Photography Prize earlier this year. She has a solo exhibition at The Pinakotek der Moderne, Munich until January 08 and her film 'A Lapse of Memory' can be seen at London's Royal Institute for British Architects until 30 October. Other solo exhibitions include the de Pont Foundation, Tilburg, Villa Arson, Nice and Akademie der Kuenste, Berlin. Recent notable group exhibitions include Sujeto Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon, 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.

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BIOGRAPHY

1966
Indonesia

1988-92
Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam

1996/97
Rijksakademie van beeldende kunst, Amsterdam

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2007
Lunds Konsthall, Sweden
'A Lapse of Memory', Royal Institute of British Architects, London
'80 Days', Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
Wako Works of Art, Tokyo

2006
'Short Voyages', Frith Street Gallery, London
Art Gallery of York University, Toronto
'Mirrormaker', Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark
(touring: Landesgalerie, Linz, Austria, Kunstmuseum, Bergen, Norway and Pori, Finland)

2005
Musee d'Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada
'Countenance' (and other works), Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, England
Baltic Art Center, Visby, Sweden

2004
'Correction', Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
(touring: New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles)
IASPIS Gallery, Stockholm
Gallery Wako Works of Art, Tokyo

2003
Fiona Tan, Frith Street Gallery, London press release
Villa Arson, Nice
Depont Foundation, Tilburg
Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin
DAAD Galerie, Berlin

2002
'Fiona Tan - akte 1', Villa Arson Nice, Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Nice
(touring: De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg; Akademie der Kunsten, Berlin)

2001
'Fiona Tan, recent works', Galerie Michel Rein, Paris
'Matrix 144', solo, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Conneticut
'Art Unlimited', Art Basel 32
Wako Works of Art, Japan

2000
'Facing Forward', Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milano
'Scenario', Kunstverein Hamburg, Germany
'Carwreck Cinema', Aussendienst Hamburg, Germany
'Lift', Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam
'Fiona Tan, monographic presentation, Contemporary film and video', Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 5 December

1999
'Roll I & II', Museum De Pont, Tilburg
'Fiona Tan, De Begane Grond, Utrecht
'Cradle', Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam
'Smoke Screen', De Balie, Amsterdam

1998
'J.C. Van Lanschot Prijs', S.M.A.K., Gent, Belgium (cat.) 'Linneaus' Flower Clock', Stedelijk Museum Het Domein, Sittard

1997
Open studio, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunst, Amsterdam

1996
Open studio, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunst, Amsterdam

1995
'Inside Out', Montevideo, Galerie Rene Coelho, Amsterdam

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007
'Biennial of Moving Images', Geneva
'The Tropics', Brasilia touring to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
'Global Multitude', Rotunde, Luxemburg
'L'oeil ecranou la nouvelle image', Casino Luxembourg
'Contour', Museum Prinsenhof, Delf
Deutsche Borse Photography Prize, Photographer's Gallery, London touring to Berlin Gallery, Berlin and Neue Borse, Frankfurt

2006-07
'Touch My Shadow: the Goetz Collection', The Centre for ContemporaryArt - Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw
'The Shadow', Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Sienna; MAN Museo d'Arte Provincia di Nuoro; Compton Verney

2006
'A Lapse of Memory,' Royal Pavilion Gardens, Brighton Photography Biennial
15th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney
'Work Groups and Installations', Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel
'Home Productions', Singapore Art Museum

2005
Melbourne Festival, Australian Center for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
'Sujeto', Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon, Leon, Spain
Art Unlimited, Art Basel, Basel
'Shadow Play', Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark
(touring: Kunsthalle Kiel, Germany, and Landesgalerie Linz)
HXBXD Rabobank Kunstcollectie, GEM - Museum voor Actuele Kunst, The Hague
'Screen Tests', Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam
'Ocean 1212-W', Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan

2004
'Time Zones', Tate Modern, London
Artes Mundi Prize, National Museum and Gallery of Wales, Cardiff
'+Witness', Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
'Synopsis III', National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
ev+a 2004, Imagine Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

2003
Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul
'Strangers: The First ICP Triennial of Photography and Video', International Center of Photography, New York
'Home and Away', Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
'Link', Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
'Appel a temoins', Le Quartier, Centre d'art contemporaine de Quimper, France
'Split', Bard College, New York
'ID', Nils Staerk Contemporary Art, Copenhagen
'Warum!', Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin
'Rijksakademie', Victoria Miro Gallery, London
'Kingdom of Shadows', International Film Festival, Rotterdam
'Shine', Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
'Contour', Mechelen, Belgium
'About Land, Sea and Faces', Erasmus House, Jakarta

2002
'Platform 5', Documenta 11, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel
'Rijksakademie', Victoria Miro Gallery, London

2001
'Thin Skin', ICI, AXA Gallery, New York, (touring exhibition to Scottsdale, Arizona; Gemeentemuseum Helmond; Mc Allen, Texas; Chicago, Illinois; Wichita, Kansas)
'Mobile Walls', recent acquisitions, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam
'Endtroducing', Villa Arson Nice
'Berlin Biennale 2', Berlin, (cat.)
'Biennale di Venezia', 49. Esposizione Internationale d'Arte, 'Plateau of Mankind', (cat.)
'Recente aanwinsten', Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
'Yokohama 2001', International Triennial of Contemporary Art, (cat.)
'Futureland', Museum Abteiberg, Msnchengladbach (D), Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo (NL), (cat.) 'Enduring Love', Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc., New York
Beuningen Rotterdam5
'My generation 24 hours of video art', curated by Mark Nash and Alexandre Pollazzon, Atlantis Gallery, London
'Sculpture Contemporaine', Institut d'art contemporain, Lyon

2000
'Cinema Without Walls', Musuem Boijmans van Beuningen Rotterdam
'Fiona Tan', BZÿro Friedrich, Berlin
'Everything needs time..', St. Michael's Church, Honiton Festival, Exeter, Great Britain
'Etat des lieux # 2', Centre d'art Contemporain, Fribourg, Switzerland
'Et l'art se met au monde', Institute d'art contemporain, Villeurbanne, France
'Finsternis/Finsterre', Palazzo delle Pappesse, Pisa, Italy
'Still/Moving', Museum of Modern Art Kyoto, Japan
'hers, Video as a Female Terrain', Steirisc[:her:]bst, Landesmuseum Johanneum, Graz (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
'Go Away', Royal College of Art, London (cat.)

1999
'Go Away', Royal College of Art, London (cat.)
'Cities on the Move', Hayward Gallery, London; Louisiana Museum, Denmark (cat.); Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
'Zug (luft)', Museum Kurhaus Kleve
'The Power of Beauty', Gemeentemuseum Helmond
'Life Cycles', Galerie fur Zeitgenossische Kunst, Leipzig
'The Second', Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
'International Biennale of Photography', Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City
'8e Biennale de l'Image en mouvement', Centre pour l'Image Contemporaine, Geneve, Switzerland
'Stimuli', Witte de With, Rotterdam

1998
'unlimited.nl', De Appel, Amsterdam (cat.)
'Rineke Dijkstra, Tracey Moffatt, Fiona Tan', S.M.A.K., Gent, Belgium (cat.)
'Entre-fiction', Centre d'Art Contemporaine Rueil-Malmaison, France (cat.)
'Biennale de l'image Paris '98', E.N.S.B.A, Paris, France (cat.)
'Scope', Artist Space, New York
'Traces of Science in Art', Het Trippenhuis, Amsterdam (cat.)
'World Wide Video Festival', Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam / De Melkweg(cat.)
'The Second - Time Based Art from the Netherlands', Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan; ICC, Tokyo, Japan
'+8 +7 +3 +1 -1 -5', Glass Box, Paris; I.A.I., Moskou
'Power Up', Gemeentemuseum Arnhem, the Netherlands (cat.)
'Deplacements', Galerie Anton Weller, Paris
'Cities on the Move', PS1 Contemporary Art, New York; CAPC Musee d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, France (cat.)

1997
'The Second - Time Based Art from the Netherlands', Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Museo Del Chopo, Mexico
'Hong Kong - Parfumed Harbour', De Appel, Amsterdam
'2nd Johannesburg Biennale', Johannesburg, South Africa
'Cities on the Move', Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria (cat.)

1996
'hARTware - Dutch Media Art in the 90s', KZÿnstlerhaus, Dortmund, Germany

1995
'Beyond the Bridge', Nederlands Film Museum, Amsterdam (cat.)
'Arslab - I sensi del Virtuale', Palazzo della Belli Arti, Torino, Italy (cat.)

1994
Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam

AWARDS and GRANTS

2006
Nomination, Deutsche Borse Photography Prize

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

COLLECTIONS

21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Don Rubell Family Collection, Miami
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
Fonds National d'Art Contemporain
Foundation De Pont, Tilburg
FRAC Lorraine
FRAC Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur
FRAC Villeurbaine, Lyon
Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem
Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville Paris
Museum Booijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
Rabobank Nederland
Sammlung Goetz, Munich
Schaulager, Laurenz Foundation, Basel
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Stedelijk Museum Het Domein, Sittard
Tate Modern, London

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