FIONA TAN (b. 1966, Pekan Baru, Indonesia) lives and works in Amsterdam.
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 skillfully crafting moving and intensely human works, expanded film and video installations, that explore history and time and our place within it.
Tan was short listed for The Deutsche Borse Photography Prize in 2007. Recent exhibitions include a solo show at The Pinakotek der Moderne, Munich, and a showing of her film, A Lapse of Memory, at the Royal Institute for British Architects, London. Other solo exhibitions include the de Pont Foundation, Tilburg, the Netherlands; Villa Arson, Nice, France; and Akademie der Künste, Berlin. Recent notable group exhibitions include Sujeto at Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y León, (MUSAC), Spain (2005); Istanbul Biennial (2003); ICP Triennial, New York; Documenta 11, Kassel; the Venice Biennale (2001); and the Berlin Biennale (2001). Tan was also short listed for the first Artes Mundi Prize in 2003.