Fiona Tan

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.

Directed

1. Ascent (2016) — Director
2. History's Future (2016) — Director
3. Island (2008) — Director
4. May You Live in Interesting Times (1997) — Director
5. Nellie (2013) — Director
6. A Lapse of Memory (2007) — Director
7. Saint Sebastian (2001) — Director
8. News from the Near Future (2003) — Director
9. Footsteps (2022) — Director
10. Gray Glass (2020) — Director
11. Inventory (2012) — Director
12. Vertical White (2018) — Director
13. Vertical Red (2018) — Director
14. Vertical Wide (2018) — Director
15. Dearest Fiona (2023) — Director
16. Downside Up (2002) — Director
17. Facing Forward (1999) — Director
18. Lin­naeus’ Flow­er Clock (1998) — Director
19. Janine’s Room (2025) — Director
20. Kingdom of Shadows (2000) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Ascent (2016)
2. Here Is Always Somewhere Else (2007) — Herself
3. May You Live in Interesting Times (1997) — Herself
4. Kingdom of Shadows (2000) — herself