Fiona Tan

The artist and filmmaker, Fiona Tan (1966) lives and works in Amsterdam. Over the past twenty years her work has gained considerable international recognition. As recipient of the artist-in-residence fellowship from the Getty Center, she lived and worked in 2016-17 in Los Angeles. Last year she was awarded the Amsterdam Prize for Art. Her work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions in international venues. Recent solo exhibitions took place at the Museum für moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Museum de Pont, Tilburg, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK, the National Museum for Art, Osaka, at the MAXXI, Rome and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Fiona Tan represented The Netherlands at the 53rd Venice Biennale (2009). Her work is represented in numerous international public and private collections including the Tate Modern, London, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Neue National Galerie, Berlin and the Guggenheim Museum, New York. To date Tan has written and directed two feature films: History’s Future (2015) and Ascent (2016).