BIOGRAPHY
1966 Born in Pekan Baru, Indonesia.
1988–92 Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam.
1996–97 Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunst, Amsterdam.
Lives and works in Amsterdam.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Fiona Tan: Monomania
(4 July – 15 September)
2024 Museum of the Moving Image, New York. Fiona Tan: Footsteps
(13 March – 16 June)
2023 Frith Street, London. Fiona Tan: Footsteps
(23 November 2023 – 20 January 2024)
Stedelijk Musuem Alkmaar, the Netherlands. Fiona Tan: Raamwerk, Alkmaar
(30 September 2023 – 3 March 2024). Catalogue.
Wako Works of Art, Tokyo. Fiona Tan: Suri
(10 February – 1 April)
2022 Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam. Fiona Tan: Mountains and Molehills
(2 October 2022 – 8 January 2023). Catalogue.
2020 Kunsthalle Krems, Krems an der Donau, Austria. Mit der anderen / With the other hand
(21 November 2020 – 7 March 2021). Catalogue.
Museum der Moderne, Salzburg. Mit der anderen / With the other hand
(31 October 2020 – 2 May 2021). Catalogue.
Gallery Weekend Berlin, Germany. Fiona Tans: Ideas of Utopia
(11 September – 31 October)
Peter Freeman, Inc., New York. Archive / Ruins
(9 January – 22 February). Catalogue.
2019 Samstag Museum, Adelaide, Australia. Ascent
(18 October – 6 December)
Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany. Goraiko
(21 September 2019 – 12 January 2020). Catalogue.
Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland. Fiona Tan: Disorient
(14 June 2019 – 26 January 2020)
Borch Editions Butik, Copenhagen. Fiona Tan: Ideas of Utopia
(8 June – 18 July)
Museum Ludwig, Cologne. GAAF,
curated by Fiona Tan (4 May – 11 August). Catalogue.
Musée des Arts Contemporains au Grand-Hornu, Belgium. L’Archive des ombres
(14 April – 1 September). Catalogue.
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Ascent
(16 February – 16 June)
2018 Frith Street Gallery, London. Elsewhere
(16 November 2018 – 19 January 2019)
2017 IMA, Brisbane, Australia. Nellie
(1–29 April)
2016 Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain. Disorient
(22 December 2016 – 19 March 2017)
Izu Photo Museum, Shizuoka-ken, Japan. Ascent
(18 July – 18 October). Exhibition travelled: De Pont Museum, Tilburg, the Netherlands
(11 February – 11 June 2017). Catalogue.
2015 Nasjonalmuseet – Museet for samtidskunst, Oslo. Fiona Tan – Tidens Geografi
(25 September 2015 – 31 January 2016). Exhibition travelled:
Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg (20 February – 28 August 2016);
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main (17 September 2016 – 15 January 2017);
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel (17 February – 29 July 2017). Catalogue.
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK. Depot
(10 July – 1 November)
Frith Street Gallery Golden Square & Soho Square, London. Ghost Dwellings
(1 May – 31 July)
Frith Street Gallery Golden Square & Soho Square, London. Inventory
(1 May – 26 June)
2014 Metropolitan Museum for Photography, Tokyo. Terminology
(19 July – 23 September). Exhibition travelled: National Museum of Art, Osaka
(20 December 2014 – 22 March 2015). Catalogue.
Wako Works of Art, Tokyo. Nellie
(19 July – 30 September)
Wako Works of Art, Tokyo. Photographic works
(3 May – 5 July)
Rabo Kunstzone, Utrecht, the Netherlands. Options & Futures
(8 April – 19 September)
2013 Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania. Inventory
(14 December 2013 – 11 May 2014)
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan. Ellipsis
(3 August – 10 November). Catalogue.
Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Germany. Point of Departure
(6 July – 27 October)
MAXXI, Rome. Inventory
(27 March – 8 September)
2012 Koldo Mitxelena, San Sebastian, Spain. Point of Departure
(30 October 2012 – 13 January 2013)
The Photographers Gallery, London. VOX POPULI, London
(15–30 September). Catalogue.
Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art, Scotland. Disorient
(7 June 2012 – 24 February 2013)
Centro Andaluz de Arte Contempraeneo, Seville, Spain. Point of Departure
(22 March – 22 July)
2011 Wako Works of Art, Tokyo. ‘Rise and Fall’ and New Works
(10 September – 15 October)
Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris. Vox Populi, Switzerland
(17 June – 17 July)
Museum Kunst der Westkuste, Föhr, Germany. Brendan’s Isle
(27 February 2011 – 15 January 2012)
Galerie de L’UQUAM, Montreal. Rise and Fall
(25 February – 2 April)
2010 Freer | Sackler Galleries, Washington, DC. Fiona Tan: Rise and Fall
(25 September – 16 January)
Sackler Gallery, Washington, DC. Catalogue with texts Okwui Enwezor,
Bruce Grenville, Michael Newman, Irit Rogoff, Madeline Schuppli
(23 September 2010 – 16 January 2011)
Frith Street Gallery, London. Fiona Tan: Cloud Island and other new works
(17 September – 29 October)
Benesse Art Site, Inujima, Japan.
Cloud Island I, Project for the Venice Architecture Biennale 2010 (29 August – 21 November)
Vlaams Bouwmeester, Brussels. A Fool’s Paradise
(2–17 July)
Wako Works of Art, Tokyo. Fiona Tan – The Changeling
(15 June – 24 July)
Peter Freeman Inc., New York. Provenance and other works
(13 May – 10 July)
Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem, the Netherlands. Disorient and other works
(27 March – 20 June)
Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney. Coming Home
(19 March – 12 June). Catalogue.
Museum Kunst der Westkuste, Fohr, Germany. News from the Near Future
(28 February – 25 May)
Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland. Fiona Tan: Rise and Fall
(30 January – 18 April). Exhibition travelled: The Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
(9 May – 6 September); Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
(18 September 2010 – 9 January 2011); Montreal Galerie de l’Université du Québec à Montréal,
Canada (25 February – 5 April 2011). Catalogue.
2009 Dutch Pavilion, 53rd La Biennale di Venezia, Italy. Fiona Tan, Disorient
(7 June – 22 November). Catalogue.
2008 Map Birger Jarlsgatan, Stockholm. Island
(3–26 October)
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts.
Fiona Tan: Countenance (20 September 2008 – 11 February 2009)
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Provenance
(27 August – 10 October)
Chapelle du Genêteil Centre d'Art Contemporain- Le Carré Scène Château-Gontier,
Mayenne, France. Fiona Tan (5 April – 1 June)
2007 Lunds Konsthalle, Sweden. Time and Again
(24 November 2007 – 27 January 2008). Catalogue.
Royal Institute of British Architects, London. A Lapse of Memory
(12–30 October)
Frith Street Gallery, London. A Lapse of Memory
(9–30 October)
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich. 80 Tage
(21 September 2007 – 6 January 2008). Catalogue.
Wako Works of Art, Tokyo. News from the Near Future
(4 April – 10 May)
Pori Art Museum, Finland. Mirror Maker
(26 January – 20 May)
2006 Frith Street Gallery, London. Short Voyages
(14 September – 27 October)
Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark. Mirror Maker
(25 February 2006 – 21 May 2023). Exhibition travelled: Landesgalerie, Linz, Austria
(1 June – 13 August); Kunstmuseum Bergen, Norway (1 September – 3 December);
Porin Taidemuseo, Finland (26 January – 20 May 2007). Catalogue.
Art Gallery of York University, Toronto. Fiona Tan
(26 January – 26 March). Catalogue.
2005 Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne. Saint Sebastian
(8–22 October)
Baltic Art Center, Visby, Sweden. Fiona Tan
(21 May – 4 September)
Musee d’Arte Contemporain, Montreal. Saint Sebastian
(12 May – 5 September)
Modern Art Oxford, UK. Countenance (and other works)
(5 April – 29 May)
2004 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Correction
(2 October 2004 – 23 January 2005). Exhibition travelled:
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (8 April – 4 June 2005);
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (26 June – 16 October 2005). Catalogue.
IASPIS Gallery, Stockholm. Fiona Tan
(15 April – 16 May)
Wako Works of Art, Tokyo. Linnaeus’ Flower Clock / Roll I & II
(22 January – 21 February)
2003 Firth Street Gallery, London. New and Recent Works
(30 January – 15 March)
2002 Villa Arson Nice, Centre National d’Arte Contemporain, France. Fiona Tan: Akte 1
(25 October 2002 – 8 January 2003). Exhibition travelled:
De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg, the Netherlands
(25 January – 11 May 2003); Daadgalerie, Berlin (31 May – 3 August 2003);
Akademie der Künste, Berlin (15 December 2003 – 15 February 2004). Catalogue.
2001 Galerie Elisabeth Kaufmann, Zurich. Rain
(12–28 October)
Wako Works of Art, Tokyo. Film and Video Works
(1 September – 13 October)
Galerie der Hochschule fur Gestaltung und Kunst, Lucerne, Switzerland.
May You Live in Interesting Times (8 June – 29 July)
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut. Matrix 144
(19 May – 2 September)
Galerie Michel Rein, Paris. Recent Works
(24 March – 12 May)
2000 Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam. Lift
(2 September – 14 October)
Aussendienst, Hamburg. Car Wreck Cinema
(1–30 July)
Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milan. Linnaeus’ Flower Clock
(12 May – 18 June)
Kunstverein Hamburg, Germany. Scenario
(14 April – 26 June)
1999 De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg, the Netherlands. Roll I & II
(5 November – 19 December)
De Balie, Amsterdam. Smoke Screen
(27 August – 30 October)
De Begane Grond, Utrecht, the Netherlands. Elsewhere is a Negative Mirror
(11 April – 9 May)
Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam. Cradle
(19 March – 25 April)
1998 Stedelijk Museum Het Domein, Sittard, the Netherlands. Linneaus’ Flower Clock
(27 February – 21 March)
1996–1997 Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunst, Amsterdam. Open Studio
1995 Montevideo/Time Based Arts, Amsterdam. Inside Out
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Peter Freeman, Inc., Paris. En travaux
(16–26 October)
Frith Street Gallery, London. Alliances
(5 July – 9 August)
Warp, Contemporary Art Platform, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium. Coup de Ville
(13 April – 19 May)
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Nineteenth-century Photography Now
(10 April – 7 July)
2023 Frith Street Gallery, London. Portrait
(7 July – 11 August)
Centraal Museum Utrecht, the Netherlands. New Horizons
(30 June – 27 August)
Heilige Driehoek, Oosterhout, the Netherlands. H3H Biennale
(3 June – 16 July)
Lentos Museum, Linz, Austria. Sisters & Brothers
(26 May – 17 September)
Palazzo Strozzi, Florence. Reaching for the Stars
(4 March – 18 June)
Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing, France. Saodat Ismailova: Double Horizon
(10 February – 30 April)
2022 Musée cantonal des beaux‑arts Lausanne, Switzerland. Voyages Imaginaires
(27 June – 25 September)
Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin. Balance
(10 June – 9 October)
Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland.
Before – Between – Beyond: The Collection in Transition (15 May – 7 August)
2021 Incheon Art Platform, South Korea. Frequencies of Tradition
(7 December 2021 – 10 April 2022)
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León, Spain. Memory of the Future
(16 October 2021 – 30 January 2022)
Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Brussels. Voies de la Modernité / Europalia. Tracks to Modernity
(15 October 2021 – 13 February 2022)
Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna. Hungry for Time
(9 October 2021 – 30 January 2022)
New Media Gallery, Vancouver. Assembly
(18 September – 5 December)
SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin. How to Find Meaning in Dead Time
(27 August – 12 September)
MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Errata: Collecting Entanglements (30 July – 1 November)
Musée d'Arts Contemporains, Grand Hornu, Belgium.
Comme le mur qui attend le lierre. Fiona Tan. Daniel Turner. Oriol Vilanova
(23 May – 29 August). Catalogue.
Scarborough Art Gallery, UK. Animal Hauntings
(18 May – 12 September)
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland. Continuously Contemporary
(23 January 2021 – 9 January 2022)
Peter Freeman, Inc., New York. RHE: Jan Dibbets, Helen Mirra, Fiona Tan, Richard Wentworth,
in collaboration with Galleries Curate (8–30 January)
2020 Guangzhou Time Museum, China. Frequencies of Tradition
(12 December 2020 – 7 February 2021)
Fondazione Merz, Turin. Push the Limits
(7 September 2020 – 31 January 2021)
Kunstforum, Vienna. The Cindy Sherman Effect
(29 January – 19 July)
2019 Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Japan. From the cave
(1 October – 24 November)
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany.
Now is the Time: 25 Years Collection Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (24 March – 29 September)
Historisches Museum, Frankfurt. A Lapse of Memory
(6 March – 14 July)
Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle, the Netherlands.
Vrijheid / Freedom – The Fifty Key Dutch Artworks Since 1968 (20 January – 12 May)
2018 Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada. The Metamorphosis
(24 November 2018 – 17 March 2019)
TextielMuseum, Tilburg, the Netherlands. Cultural Threads
(24 November 2018 – 12 May 2019)
HOW Art Museum, Shanghai, China. Heteroglossia
(7 November 2018 – 17 February 2019)
6th Kuandu Biennale, Taiwan.
(5 October 2018 – 6 January 2019)
The Leopold Collection, Leopold Museum, Vienna. Egon Schiele: The Jubilee Show
(28 September 2018 – 10 March 2019)
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. True Luxury Art Acquisitions 2012–2018
(22 September 2018 – 3 March 2019)
Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild, Paris. Fukami, plongée dans l’esthétique Japonaise
(15 July – 18 August)
Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía, Spain.
Tiempo y Memoria. Fiona Tan y Haris Epaminonda (7 July 2018 – 24 March 2019)
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin. Face to Face,
curated by Hendrik Driessen (29 June – 18 August)
Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía, Spain.
Time and Memory: Fiona Tan and Haris Epaminonda (7 June 2018 – 27 January 2019)
French Cultural Center, Istanbul, Turkey.
Tribute – Filmor International Women’s Film Festival (10–17 March)
Kunsthustorisches Museum, Vienna. The Shape of Time
(5 March – 8 July)
Nanaimo Art Gallery, British Columbia, Canada. Landfall and Departure: Epilogue
(12 January – 10 March)
2017 Pafos, Cyprus. Weaving Europe
(17 November – 31 December)
Belvedere Museum, Vienna. Aging Pride
(16 November 2017 – 11 March 2018)
De Pont Museum, Tilburg, the Netherlands. Weerzien / Review
(16 September 2017 – 18 February 2018)
Whitechapel Gallery, London. ISelf Collection: The End of Love
(30 August – 26 November)
Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon.
Sculpture on Screen: The Very Impress of the Object (14 July – 2 October)
Frith Street Gallery, London. Summer Breeze: An Ensemble of Gallery Artists
(6 July – 11 August)
Palais de Tokyo, Paris. Dioramas
(14 June – 10 September)
Caen Museum of Fine Arts, Normandy. L’attention au reel
(19 May – 10 September)
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.
Versus Rodin: Bodies across space and time (4 March – 2 July)
Samstag Museum, Adelaide, Australia. Countercurrents – The Ocean After Nature
(3 March – 13 April)
2016 Audain Art Museum, Whistler, Canada. Intersections: Contemporary Artist Films
(29 October 2016 – 6 February 2017)
Tasmania Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Australia. Tempest
(10 June – 20 November)
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Canada. Trans-Pacific Transmissions
(4 June – 5 September)
Centro Andaluz de Art Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain.
Collecting, Classifying: The Archive, the Document and Beyond (7–20 May)
Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand, Norway. Underway
(4 March – 2 July)
Holden Gallery, Manchester School of Art, UK. Up/Down
(18 January – 4 March)
National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan. Ecce Homo
(16 January – 21 March)
2015 Rubell Family Collection, Miami.
No Man’s Land: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection
(2 December 2015 – 28 May 2016)
Schaulager, Basel. FUTURE PRESENT
(13 June 2015 – 31 January 2016)
FRAC Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur, Marseille. La figure de l’étrange/et…
(4 April – 23 May)
Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid. Video-Régimen
(13 February – 11 May)
2014 Frith Street Gallery, London. Silver
(17 October – 17 December)
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo. Go-Betweens
(31 May – 31 August)
Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore. Paradise Lost
(18 January – 30 March)
2013 Helsinki Art Museum, Finland. Play, Aesthetics of Technology
(4 December 2013 – 26 January 2014)
Chambres des Canaux, Amsterdam. Chambres des canaux
(1–17 November)
Museum Van Loon, Amsterdam. Suspended Histories
(5 October 2013 – 20 January 2014)
Hala Umenia Kosice, Slovakia. Triennale de l’image Contemporaine
(12 September – 3 November)
Kirchner Museum, Davos, Switzerland. Kirchner’s Archers
(30 June – 17 November)
Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada. Portraits in time
(29 June – 14 October)
DAAD Galerie, Berlin. Inseldasein
(8 June – 27 July)
Musée d’art contemporain, Marseille. Le Pont
(25 May – 31 October)
Setouchi Triennale, Inujima and Naoshima, Japan. Cloud Island I and Cloud Island
(20 March – 4 November)
2012 Palais de Tokyo, Paris. Insular Insight
(14–30 December)
Futura Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague. Touch
(11 December – 24 February)
The Barbican, London. A night at the Museum
(11–12 December)
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia. Asian Pacific Triennial Contemporay Art
(8 December 2012 – 14 April 2013)
Vienna Art Week, Austria. Predicting Memories
(19–25 November)
Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt. Privacy
(1 November 2012 – 3 February 2013)
Städtische Galerie, Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany.
Menschen des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts: August Sander und seine Nachfolge
(20 October 2012 – 6 January 2013)
EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam. Expanded Cinema
(28 September – 2 December)
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Beyond Imagination
(23 September – 11 November)
FOAM, Amsterdam. Re-Search
(31 August – 14 October)
Rudolfinium, Prague. Faces
(21 June – 16 September)
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland. Status
(9 June – 26 August)
Galleria Dell’Accademia, Florence. Arte Torna Arte
(7 May – 4 December)
Centro de Arte Santa Monica, Barcelona. Once Upon A Time/Screen
(28 March – 2 June)
Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris. Autobiography
(23 March – 20 July)
National Museum, Oslo. Unfinished Journey
(16 March – 20 May)
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France.
Asies: un choix d’oeuvres vidéo dans les collections (17 February – 28 May)
2011 MOT Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo. Architectural Environments for tomorrow
(11 October 2011 – 15 January 2012)
Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Russia. Expanded Cinema
(13 June – 3 July)
Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague. Undeniably Me
(26 May – 14 August)
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Temporary Stedlijk 2
(3 March – 5 May)
Galerie im Taxispalis, Innsbruck, Austria. Anonymous Sculptures
(26 February – 30 April)
Peter Freeman, Inc., New York.
Shelter: Art against trafficking in women and sexual exploitation (27 January – 12 February)
De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea, UK. Moving Portraits
(22 January – 31 March)
2010 Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany. Anonymous Sculptures
(10 October 2010 – 6 February 2012)
Australian Center for Contemporary Art, Melbourne. Mortality
(8 October – 28 November)
29th Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil.
(25 September – 12 November)
4th Fotofestival Mannheim, Germany. The Eye is a Lonely Hunter
(10 September – 6 November)
Venice Architecture Biennale 2010, Italy. Cloud Island 1
(29 August – 21 November)
Aargauer Kunsthaus, Switzerland. Yesterday Will Be Better,
curated by Madeline Schuppli (21 August – 7 November). Catalogue.
Domaine de la Garenne Lemot, Getigne, France. Jeux de rôles
(9 July – 31 October)
Zentrum für Medienkunst, Karlsrhue, Germany. Fast Forward 2. The Power of Motion
(18 June – 3 October)
Centro de Artes Visuales Fundacion Helga de Alvear, Caceres, Spain. Margins of Silence
(June 6 – January 15)
Glasgow, Scotland. Glasgow International Festival for Visual Art
(April 16 – September 27)
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh. Artists Rooms
(March 27 – September 27)
Tensta Konsthall, Sweden. Rethink Kakotopia
(20 February – 10 April)
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan.
Yebisu International Festival of Art & Alternative Visions (19–28 February)
2009 Goteborg Biennial, Sweden. What a wonderful world
(1–31 December)
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany. Undeniably me / Ich, zweifellos
(21 November 2009 – 28 March 2010)
International Festival of Arts, Yokohama, Japan. Cream
(31 October – 29 November)
Kunsthallen Nikolaj, Copenhagen. Rethink – Contemporary Art & Climate Change
(31 October 2009 – 5 April 2010)
Centraal Museum, Utrecht, the Netherlands. Beyond the Dutch
(17 October 2009 – 3 January 2010)
Art Gallery of Monash University, Melbourne. Photographer Unknown
(16 September – 28 November)
OK Centrum fur Gegenwartskunst, Linz, Austria. Hohenrausch
(29 May – 31 October)
Freer & Sackler Gallery, Washington, DC. Moving Perspectives
(14 March – 5 July)
2008 Hiroshima Museum of Modern Art, Japan. Dome
(1 December)
New Orleans Biennial, Louisiana. Prospect 1
(3–18 November)
Itaú Cultural, São Paulo. Cinema Sim – Narrativas E Projeções
(29 October – 21 December)
IAC Villeurbanne, France. Echelle d’attitudes
(5 October – 6 December)
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin. Imprisoned
(28 September – 16 November)
Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris. Breeze,
curated by Marja Bloem (20 September – 21 October)
FRAC Provence Alpe Côte d’Azur, Marseille. Eclats de Frontières
(19 September – 13 December)
National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka. Self and Other: Portraits from Asia and Europe
(11 September – 25 November). Exhibition travelled: National Museum of Art, Osaka
(30 September – 24 November); Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
(6 December 2008 – 25 January 2009); Museum of Modern Art, Hayama, Japan
(7 February – 29 March 2009); Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Cultural History, Japan
(7 February – 29 March 2009)
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Be(com)ing Dutch
(25 May – 14 September)
Museìon, Bolzano, Italy. Peripheral Vision and Collective Body
(24 May – 21 September)
Cinema du reel, 30th Anniversary, Centre Pompidou, Paris. Facing Forward
(7 March 2008 – 18 January 2009)
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin. Greenwashing
(28 February – 18 May)
Inelcom Collection, Madrid. Inaugural exhibition
(1 February – 1 March)
Wako Works of Art, Tokyo. 15 Years / Part III
(26 January – 26 February)
2007 Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris.
Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid (23–30 November)
Stockholms Kulturfestival, Sweden. Livet en dröm
(16–25 November)
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid. Cine y Casi Cine
(5 November – 3 December)
Rotonde1, Luxembourg. Global Multitude
(23 October – 2 December)
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro.
The Tropics: Views from the Middle of the Globe (15 October 2007 – 10 February 2008).
Exhibition travelled: Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro
(4 March – 4 May 2008); Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (12 September 2008 – 5 January 2009);
Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town (1 April – 14 June 2009);
Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok (March – June 2010)
Bâtiment d’art contemporain, Geneva. Culture hors-sol
(12 October – 16 December)
Geneva, Switzerland. Biennale of Moving Images
(12 October – 16 December)
Mücsarnok, Budapest. The Projection Project
(23 June – 26 August)
Casino, Luxembourg. L’œil écran ou la nouvelle image
(24 March – 17 June). Exhibition travelled:
National Museum of Contemporary Art of Bucharest, Romania
Museum Prinsenhof, Delft. Contour
(4 March – 13 May)
The Photographers’ Gallery, London. Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 07
(9 February – 9 April). Exhibition travelled: C/O Gallery, Berlin; Neue Börse, Frankfurt
Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Sienna. The Shadow
Exhibition travelled: Museo d’Arte Provincia di Nuoro, Italy; Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK
2006 Gardens of the Royal Pavilion, Brighton, UK. Brighton Photography Biennale
(6–29 October)
Singapore Art Museum, Singapore. Home Productions
(9 September – 29 October)
15th Biennale of Sydney, Australia. Zones of contact
(8 June – 27 August)
Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel. Work Groups and Installations
(1 June – 3 September)
2005 Gravity in Art, De Appel, Amsterdam.
(2 December 2005– 22 January 2006)
Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw.
Touch My Shadows, New Media Works from the Goetz Collection
(1 December 2005 – 28 February 2006)
Video from the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami. Indeterminate States
(30 November 2005 – 3 February 2006)
Institut Francais, Casablanca, Morocco. Oeuvre politique et politique de l’œuvre
(25 November)
Musée Dar Si Said, Marrakech. Respect! Forms of community/ Formes de cohabitation
(15 November – 31 December)
Australian Center for Contemporary Art, Melbourne. Melbourne Festival
(6–22 October)
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León, Spain. Sujeto
(10 September – 6 December)
Art Basel, Switzerland. Art Unlimited
(14–20 June)
Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark; Kunsthalle Kiel, Germany;
Landesgalerie, Linz, Austria. Shadow Play (28 May – 28 August)
Sala Alcala 31, Madrid. Unveiling the visible
(21 April – 5 June)
Comunidad de Madrid, Spain. Videocreación contemporánea
(1 April)
Gem- Museum voor Actuele Kunst, The Hague. HXBXD Rabobank Kunstcollectie
(28 Februay – 8 May)
Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan. Ocean 1212-W
(4 February – 20 April)
Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam. Screen Tests
International Forum, Tokyo.
Art Today Japan, the 8th Nippon International Contemporary Art Festival
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan. Recent Acquisitions
2004 Tate Modern, London. Time Zones, Recent film and video
(6 October 2004 – 2 January 2005)
Limerick, Ireland. ev+a 2004 Imagine Limerick
(13 March – 24 May)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. +Witness
(12 March – 16 May)
National Museum and Gallery of Wales, Cardiff.
Artes Mundi, Wales International Visual Art Prize (11 March – 6 June)
2003 National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens. Synopsis III
(10 December 2003 – 14 March 2004)
Le Quartier, Centre d’Art Contemporaine de Quimper, France. Appel à témoins
(24 October 2003 – 4 January 2004)
Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada. Home and Away
(23 October 2003 – 25 January 2004)
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Link
(4 October – 31 December)
Istanbul, Turkey. Istanbul Biennale
(20 September – 16 November)
International Center of Photography, New York.
Strangers: The First ICP Triennial of Photography and Video (13 September – 30 December)
Carré, Scène Nationale, Chateau-Gontier, France. Brèves révélations
(28 June – 5 September)
Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin. Warum!
(28 May – 3 August)
8th Nippon International Contemporary Art Festival, Tokyo. Your Memorabilia
(4–6 April)
Bard College, New York. Split
(16–30 March)
Galleri Nils Stærk, Copenhagen. Yours Truly
(7 March – 26 April)
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam.
Shine, Wensdroom en toekomstvisioen in de hedendaagse kunst (22 February – 21 April)
Victoria Miro Gallery, London. Rijksakademie
(14 January – 8 February)
Nils Staerk Contemporary Art, Copenhagen. ID
Mechelen, Belgium. Contour
International Film Festival, Rotterdam. Kingdom of Shadows
Erasmus House, Jakarta. About Land, Sea and Faces
2002 Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid. Cine y Casi Cine 2007
(5 November – 3 December)
Abbaye Saint-André Centre d’Art Contemporain, Meymac, France. Récrits
(7 July – 27 October)
Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany. Documenta 11
(8 June – 15 November)
MIT List Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Telepathic Journeys
(23 April – 7 June)
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, the Netherlands. Selfexposure
Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, the Netherlands. On the Waterfront
2001 Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam. Mobile Walls – Recent Acquisitions
(1–30 December)
Institut d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France. Sculpture Contemporaine
(23 November 2001 – 20 January 2002)
Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany.
(23 September – 6 January 2002). Exhibition travelled: Bommel van Dam, Venlo, the Netherlands
International Triennial of Contemporary Art, Yokohama, Japan.
(2 September – 11 November)
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Recent acquisitions
(11 July – 9 September)
Art Basel, Switzerland. Art Unlimited
(12–17 June)
Venice, Italy. 49th Venice Biennale (main exhibition, “Platea dell’Umanità”)
(7 June – 25 November)
Berlin, Germany. 2nd Berlin Biennale
(20 April – 20 June)
Villa Arson, Nice, France. Entroducing
(30 March – 10 June)
Castello di Rivoli, Turin. Nuove Scene dall’Olanda
2000 Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, China. Shanghai Spirit
(6 November 2000 – 6 January 2001)
Landesmuseum Johanneum, Graz, Austria. Hers, Video as Female Terrain
(28 October – 10 December)
Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto. Still/Moving
(8 August – 24 September)
Kunstprojecte in Offentlichen Raumen, Hamburg. Aussendienst
(1–30 July)
Institute d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France. Et l’art se met au Monde
(23 June – 29 October)
Art Basel, Switzerland. Art Unlimited
(12–17 June)
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam. Exploding Cinema
(27 January – 7 February)
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam. Cinema Without Walls
Centre d’Art Contemporain, Fribourg, Switzerland. Etat des lieux #2
Palazzo delle Pappesse, Pisa. Finsternis/Finsterre
International Documentary Filmfestival, Amsterdam. Kingdom of Shadows
1999 Witte de With, Rotterdam. Stimuli
(21 November – 13 February)
Centre pour l’Image Contemporaine, Geneva. 8e Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement
(5 November– 12 December)
Galerie fur Zeitgenossische Kunst, Leipzig. Life Cycles
(24 October – 5 December)
Museum Kurhaus kelve, Germany. Zug (luft)
(11 September – 26 December)
Centro de la imagen, Mexico City. International Biennale of Photography
(9 July – 5 September)
Royal College of Art, London. Go Away: Artists and Travel
(5 March – 22 August)
Gemeentemuseum Helmond, the Netherlands. The Power of Beauty
1998 Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent. Rineke Dijkstra, Tracey Moffatt, Fiona Tan
(29 October – 29 November)
Gemeentemuseum Arnhem, the Netherlands. Power Up
(12 September – 15 November)
Foundation De Appel, Amsterdam. Unlimited.nl
(11 September – 29 November)
Het Trippenhuis, Amsterdam. Traces of Science in Art
(14 May – 20 September)
Museum voor Modern Kunst Arnhem, the Netherlands. Power Up, Tussen ervaring en verwachting
Centre d’Art Contemporain Reuil-Malmaison, France. Entrè-fiction
École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris. Biennale de l’image Paris ’98
Artists Space, New York. SCOPE
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. World Wide Video Festival
Galerie Anton Weller, Paris. Déplacements
1997 Wiener Secession, Austria. Cities on the Move
(26 November 1997 – 18 January 1998). Exhibition travelled:
CAPC Musee d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, France (June – August 1998);
PS1 Contemporary Art, New York (October 1998 – January 1999);
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk (January – April 1999); Hayward Gallery, London
(May – June 1999); Bangkok, Thailand (October 1999); Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art,
Helsinki, Finland (November – December 1999)
Johannesburg, South Africa. 2nd Johannesburg Biennale
(12 October – 12 December)
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. The Second, Time Based Art from the Netherlands
(25 January – 9 March). Exhibition travelled: Museo Del Chopo, Mexico City;
Fine Arts Museum, Taipei; ICC, Toronto
1996 Kunsterlhaus, Dortmund, Germany. hARTware- Dutch media in the 90s
1995 Nederlands Filmmuseum, Amsterdam. Beyond the Bridge
Palazzo delle Belle Arti, Turin. Arslab- I sensi del virtuale
1994 Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam. Totenklage/Lacrymosa
AWARDS
2019 Spectrum International Prize for Photography, Stiftung Niedersachsen
2017 Amsterdam Prize for Art
2016 Getty Artist-in-Residence Fellowship, Los Angeles
2007 Deutsche Borse Photography Prize, Nominee
2004 ICP Infinity Award for Art, New York
Artes Mundi Prize, Cardiff, Wales, Nominee
2003 IASPIS grand and residency, Stockholm
2001–2002 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
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2023 Tan, Fiona. Het Grote Raam / The Great Window / Das große Fenster:
An Artwork by Fiona Tan for the Great Church in Alkmaar
(Pliezhausen: buch.one Verlag Offsetdruckerei Grammlich GmbH, 2023). Exhibition catalogue.
2022 Bloemheuvel, Marente, et al. Fiona Tan: Mountains and Molehills
(Amsterdam: Eye Filmmuseum, 2022). Exhibition catalogue.
2021 Gielen, Denis. Comme le mur qui attend le lierre.
(Grand-Hornu: Musée des Arts Contemporains du Grand-Hornu, 2021). Exhibition catalogue.
2020 Sadowsky, Thorsten, et al. Fiona Tan: Mit der anderen Hand (Vol. 1)
(Cologne: Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft MBH, 2020). Exhibition catalogue.
Tan, Fiona. Fiona Tan: A Walk Among Ruins (New York: Peter Freeman, Inc., 2020).
Exhibition catalogue.
Williams, Gilda, et al. Fiona Tan: Mit der anderen Hand – Reader (Vol. 2)
(Cologne: Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft MBH, 2020).
2019 Falguières, Patricia, et al. Fiona Tan: L’Archive des ombres, Volume I and II
(Grand-Hornu: Musée des Arts Contemporains, 2019). Exhibition catalogue.
Gronert, Stefan, and Lavinia Francke. Fiona Tan: Goraiko
(Amsterdam: Van Zoetendaal Publishers, 2019). Exhibition catalogue.
2016 Campany, David, et al. Fiona Tan: Ascent (Shizuoka: Izu Photo Museum, 2016).
Exhibition catalogue.
2015 Gange, Eva Klerck, et al. Fiona Tan: Geography of Time (London: Koenig Books, 2015).
Exhibition catalogue.
Tan, Fiona, and Angela Jerardi. Fiona Tan: Depot
(Gateshead: BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, 2015).
2014 Tan, Fiona, et al. Fiona Tan: Terminology (Tokyo: OSHITA Kentaro, 2014).
2013 Kurosawa, Hiromi, and Okwui Enwezor. Fiona Tan: Ellipsis
(Tokyo: Nitto Shoin Honsha Co. Ltd., 2013). Exhibition catalogue.
2012 Dillon, Brian. Fiona Tan: Vox Populi >>> London
(London: Book Works / The Photographers' Gallery, 2012). Exhibition catalogue.
2010 Engberg, Juliana, Anita Taylor, and Gene Sherman. Fiona Tan: Coming Home
(Sydney: Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, 2010). Exhibition catalogue.
Schuppli, Madeleine. Fiona Tan: Vox Populi >>> Switzerland
(London: Book Works, 2010). Exhibition catalogue.
2009 Bloemheuvel, Marente, et al. Fiona Tan: Disorient (Heidelberg: Kehrer Verlag, 2009).
Exhibition catalogue.
Grenville, Bruce, et al. Fiona Tan: Rise and Fall (Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery, 2009).
Exhibition catalogue.
2008 Tan, Fiona. Fiona Tan: Provenance (Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, 2008).
2007 Keuleman, Chris, Inka Graeve Ingelmann, and Angelika Nollert.
Fiona Tan: Vox Populi >>> Tokyo (London: Book Works, 2007).
Kreuger, Anders, and Åsa Nacking. Time and Again; Fiona Tan
(Lund: Konsthall Lund, 2007). Exhibition catalogue.
Monk, Philip. Disassembling the Archive: Fiona Tan
(Toronto: Art Gallery of York University, 2007). Exhibition catalogue.
2006 Kent, Rachel. Fiona Tan: Vox Populi >>> Sydney (London: Book Works, 2006).
Sadowsky, Thorsten, Martin Hochleitner, and Dag Erik Elgin. Fiona Tan: Mirror Maker
(Heidelberg: Kehrer Verlag, 2006). Exhibition catalogue.
2004 Bonami, Francesco, et al. Fiona Tan: Correction
(Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2004). Exhibition catalogue.
Cotter, Suzanne. Fiona Tan: Vox Populi >>> Norway (London: Book Works, 2004).
2002 Hoek, Els, and Beatrice von Bismarck. Fiona Tan: akte 1
(Tilburg: De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, 2002). Exhibition catalogue.
2000 Cooke, Lynne, et al. Fiona Tan: Scenario (Amsterdam: vandenberg&wallroth, 2000).
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Bergen Kunstmuseum, Norway
Centre Pompidou, Paris
De Pont Museum, Tilburg, the Netherlands
Don Rubell Family Collection, Miami
Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, Miami
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, France
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, the Netherlands
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
LVMH Collection, Paris
Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León, Spain
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
National Museum of Art, Osaka
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
New Museum for Contemporary Art, New York
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
Sammlung Goetz, Munich
Schaulager, Basel
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Taipei Art Museum, Taiwan
Tate Collection, London
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan