Fiona Tan

Fiona Tan

Birthday: 1966-01-01

Place of Birth: Pekanbaru, Indonesia

Biography: Fiona Tan is a visual artist and filmmaker. She is best known for her skillfully crafted video and film installations, in which explorations of memory, time, history, and the role of visual images are key. Her installations and photographic works have been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions in international venues. She has written and directed to date two feature-length films. Her work is represented in numerous international public and private collections including the Tate Modern, London, the Guggenheim Museum New York, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Neue National Galerie, Berlin, and the MCA, Chicago.

Movies

May You Live in Interesting Times
May You Live in Interesting Times

Tan’s father is Chinese-Indonesian and her mother is Australian. She grew up in Australia and studie...

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Ascent
Ascent

Through a grey blanket of clouds, we barely discern the contours of Mount Fuji, a volcano with many ...

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Here Is Always Somewhere Else
Here Is Always Somewhere Else

The life and work of enigmatic Dutch/Californian conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader, who in 1975 disappe...

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Kingdom of Shadows
Kingdom of Shadows

In the form of an associative collage, Tan unfolds a personal vision of how we currently relate to i...

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