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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.
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01 January 1999
In reframing and re-editing existing ethnographic films, Tan exposes their anthropological underpinnings and questions the conventions of filmmaking.
01 January 2008
Island (2008) is a 12-minute black-and-white video that surveys the distinctive terrain of Gotland, an island off the eastern coast of Sweden.
08 October 2022
In Footsteps, Fiona Tan creates connections between personal stories and the world around us. The footage shows children at play and Dutch windmills, but above all people engaged in heavy physical labour in the countryside and in factories.
15 November 2018
With a static camera Tan films the dense night-time traffic in West Los Angeles from her temporary studio location at the Getty Center.
12 June 2002
‘…I lose my bearings. But after all, is that such a bad thing?’ - FT
01 January 2001
Saint Sebastian was filmed by Fiona Tan at the annual ‘Toshiya’ in Kyoto, a coming-of-age ceremony for women aged twenty in 2001.
05 March 1998
A reflection on the passing of time.
01 January 1997
Tan’s father is Chinese-Indonesian and her mother is Australian. She grew up in Australia and studied in Germany and the Netherlands.
01 February 2007
A confused old man, Henry, lives on his own in an old empty building that is reminiscent of a deserted palace.
15 November 2018
With a static camera Tan films the dense night-time traffic in West Los Angeles from her temporary studio location at the Getty Center.
31 October 2013
Transporting the viewer to a very different time and place, Nellie is inspired by the life of Cornelia van Rijn, Rembrandt's illegitimate daughter, who at the age of sixteen emigrated to Batavia (present-day Jakarta).
15 November 2018
With a static camera Tan films the dense night-time traffic in West Los Angeles from her temporary studio location at the Getty Center.
28 January 2016
Losing his memory after a mugging, a man known only as 'MP' (Missing Person) leaves his home and sets out on a journey - in search not only for his memory but perhaps also for a new identity.
08 October 2016
Through a grey blanket of clouds, we barely discern the contours of Mount Fuji, a volcano with many faces.
28 December 2023
As a voice reads letters from a father to his daughter off camera, 20th century archival images from the Netherlands are shown.
16 June 2007
The life and work of enigmatic Dutch/Californian conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader, who in 1975 disappeared under mysterious circumstances at sea in the smallest boat ever to cross the Atlantic.
01 January 2003
Amsterdam-based photographer and video artist Fiona Tan (born 1966) has been a central figure on the contemporary art scene since the 1990s.
01 January 2000
In the form of an associative collage, Tan unfolds a personal vision of how we currently relate to images, concentrating on photography – a medium we particularly employ to create a picture of the world, to piece together what we call reality.
04 July 2025
A three-panel video installation commissioned by the Rijksmuseum for the exhibition Monomania, curated by Fiona Tan.
