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Born in 1966 in Pekan Baru, Indonesia
Lives and works in the Netherlands

[photo: Marieke Wijntjes]
Education

1988–1992

Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam

1996–1997

Rijksakademie van beeldende kunst, Amsterdam

Solo Exhibitions

2017

"Nellie" Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Brisbane (AU)
"Geography of Time" Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv-Yafo (IL)
"Ascent" De Pont Museum, Tilburg (NL)

2016

"Disorient" Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao (ES)
"Recent Works" Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (JP)
"Ascent" Izu Photo Museum, Shizuoka (JP), (cat.)
"Geography of Time" Mudam, Luxembourg (LU), (cat.)

2015

"Geography of Time" Nasjonalmuseet Oslo (NO)
"Depot, BALTIC Gateshead" BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (UK), (cat.)
"Inventory & Ghost Dwellings" Frith Street Gallery, London (UK)

2014

"Nellie" Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (JP) "Options and Futures" Rabo Art Zone, Utrecht (NL)
"Inventory" Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia (US) (cat.)
"Photo Works" Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (JP)
"Terminology" Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo (JP) (cat.)
"Nellie" Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (JP)

2013

"Inventory" Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia (US), (cat.) "Ellipsis" 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (JP), (cat.)
"Point of Departure" Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen (DE)
"Inventory" MAXXI, Rome (IT)

2012

"Point of Departure" CAAC - Centro Andaluz De Arte Contemporaneo, Sevilla (ES); Koldo Mitxelena, San Sebastian (ES)
"Disorient" Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow (UK)
"Vox Populi, London" The Photographers Gallery, London (UK)

2011

"Rise and Fall and New Works" Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (JP)
Sackler Galleries, Washington D.C. (US), (cat.)
"Rise and Fall" (touring) Gallery l'Uqam, Montréal (CA), (cat.)
"Vox Populi, Switzerland" Centre Culutrel Suisse, Paris (FR)

2010

"Rise and Fall" (touring until 2011) Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau (CH); Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver (CA); Freer & Sackler Galleries, Washington DC (US), (cat.)
"Provenance and other works" Peter Freeman Inc., New York, NY (US)
"Cloud Island and Other New Works" Frith Street Gallery, London (UK)
"Disorient and other works" MMK Arnhem (NL)
"News from the Near Future" Museum Kunst der Westküste, Föhr (DE)
"Coming Home" Sherman Foundation & National Art School Gallery, Syndey (AU)
"The Changeling" Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (JP)

2009

"Disorient" Dutch Pavilion at the 53rd International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice (IT), (cat.)
Freer & Sackler Galleries, Washington DC (US)

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) (cat.)
"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) (cat.)
"Countenance" (and other works), Modern Art Oxford, Oxford (UK) (cat.)
Baltic Art Center, Visby (SW) (cat.)
Modern Art Oxford (UK), (cat.)
"Saint Sebantian" (Melbourne Festival), Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney (AU), (cat.)

2004

"Fiona Tan: 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: New and Recent Works" 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

2018

"The Shape of Time" Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (AT)
"Landfall and Departure: Epilogue" Nanaimo Art Gallery, Nanaimo (CA)

2017

"Die Kraft des Alters / Aging Pride" Belvedere, Vienna (AT)
"WeerZien / ReView" De Pont Museum, Tilburg (NL)
"The End of Love" Whitechapel Gallery, London (GB)
"The Very Impress of the Object" Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon (PT)

2016

"Intersections: Contemporary Artist Films" Audain Art Museum, Whistler (CA)
"Tempest Tasmania Museum and Art" Gallery Hobart (AU)
"Trans-Pacific Transmissions" Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria (CA)
"Collecting, Classifying: The Archive, the Document and Beyond" Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla (SP)
"Underway" SØRLANDETS KUNSTMUSEUM Kristiansand (NO)
"Up/Down" Holden Gallery, Manchester School of Art, Manchester (GB)
"Ecce Homo" National Museum of Art, Osaka (JP)
Collection, Classifying: The Archive, the Document and Beyond, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville (ES)

2015

"FUTURE PRESENTQ Schaulager, Laurenz Foundation, Basel (DE)
"NO MAN'S LAND: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection" Rubell Family Collection, Miami (US)

2014

"Go-Betweens: The World Seen through Children" Mori Art Meuseum, Tokyo (JP) (cat.)
”Ghost Dwellings III" Feature Program in ART TAIPEI 2014, Taipei
"Silver" Frith Street Gallery, London (UK)
"Paradise Lost" NTU Center for Contemporary Art Singapore (SG)

2013

"Chambres des Canaux: The Tolerant Home" Amsterdam (NL)
"Le Pont" Musée d'Art Contemporain (MAC), Marseille (FR)
"Being on an Island/Inseldasein" DAAD Galerie, Berlin (DE)
"Suspended Histories" Museum van Loon, Amsterdam (NL)
"Wako Works of Art Gallery Selection" TOLOT/heuristic SHINONOME, Tokyo (JP)

2012

"Unfinished Journeys" National Museum, Oslo (NO)
"Autobiography" Espace Culturelle Louis Vuitton, Paris (FR)
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (NL)
"Expanded Cinema: Isaac Julien, Fiona Tan, Yang Fudong" Eye Film Institute, Amsterdam (NL)
"Status - 24 Contemporary Documents" Fotomuseum Winterthur (CH)
"Art Returns to Art" Galleria dell’Accademia, Florence (IT)
Asian Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery (AU)

2011

"New Space, New Works" Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (JP)
"Architectural Environments for Tomorrow: New Spacial Practices in Architecture and Art" MOT Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (JP)
"Moving Portrait" De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea, East Essex (UK)
"Anonymous Sculptures" Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck (AT)
"Temporary Stedelijk 2" Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL)
Museum Kunst der Westküste, Föhr (DE)
"Ten Women Who Use Film" ubu.com
"Expanded Cinema" MMOMA, Moscow (RU)

2010

"People Meet in Architecture" Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice (IT) (cat.)
29a Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo (BR)
"Fast Forward 2: The Power of Motion" ZKM, Karlsruhe (DE)
"Searching Songs" Yebisu International Festival for Art and Alternative Visions, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (JP), (cat.)
"Margins of Silence" Centro de Artes Visuales Fundacion Helga de Alvear, Cáceres (ES)
"Yesterday Will Be Better" Aargauer Kunsthaus (CH)
Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow (UK)

2009

Trópicos/The Tropics" Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Brasília (BR); Rio de Janeiro (BR); Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin (DE); National Gallery of Cape Town, Cape Town (SA)
Göteborg Biennial, Göteborg (SE)(cat.)
"Höhenrausch" O.K Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz (AT)
"Photographer Unknown" Art Gallery of Monash University, Melbourne (AU)
"Ich zweifellos" Museum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg (DE)
"Beyond the Dutch" Centraal Museum, Utrecht (NL)
International Festival of Art and Film Yokohama, Yokohama (JP), (cat.)
"Art Unlimited, Art Basel" (CH)

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) (cat.)
"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