Fiona Tan

Education
1988-1992 Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
1996 – 1997 Rijksakademie van beeldende kunst, Amsterdam

Fiona Tan works primarily within the realm of lens-based media such as film and photography. She was born in 1966, Pekan Baru, Indonesia, to a Chinese-Indonesian father and an Australian mother. Now lives and works in Holland since 1988 having studied in Amsterdam and Hamburg. Her works are known for contesting and underlining displacement of life.

She is represented in many international public exhibitions as well as private collections including Tate Modern, London, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Schaulager, Basel, the New Museum, New York and the Centre Pompidou, Paris. Also she participates many international art fairs including Documenta. Notably in 2009, she represented Dutch pavilion for the 53rd Venice Biennale, and in 2010, a large-scale solo exhibition Rise and Fall circulated America and Europe. At Venice Architectural Biennale in the same year, her media works featured a house project conducted by Sejima Kazuyo in Inujima island in Japan. In 2013, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa hosted an exhibition Ellipsis, which marks the first retrospective to be held in Japan.