Lisa Tan is an American artist currently living Stockholm and New York. Her work focuses on a longstanding interest in loss as a constant yet shifting condition of being that shapes the quotidian while anticipating the profound. Recent works have involved altering the 1960s French film classic Le Samouraï, poetically recounting incidents from a pseudo-performative journey to Mexico City, and revealing letters written to Eugène Delacroix, from his life-long friend (and former lover), the aptly named Mme de Forget. Her upcoming projects include a film work that takes a housing community for artists in the West Village as its subject.
EDUCATION
2014 Doctor of the Arts (Ph.D.),Valand School of Fine Arts, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
2001 Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) University of Southern California (USC)
1996 Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012 Solo Exhibition, Galerie VidalCuglietta, Brussels
2011 What follows is an ordinary situation, an episode to be related and forgotten, Andreas Grimm, Munich
Two Birds, Eighty Mountains, and a Portrait of the Artist, Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, TX
2010 Les Samouraïs, FDC Satellite, Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Brussels
2009 Language Barrier, El Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
2008 Moving a Mountain, D’Amelio Terras, New York
2007 The Baudelaire Itineraries, Andreas Grimm, Munich
2006 One Night Stand, curated by Lauri Firstenberg, LA><ART, Los Angeles
Lisa Tan, Grimm |Rosenfeld, New York
2005 Lisa Tan, Grimm | Rosenfeld, Munich
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 An extended exhibition for a transition function, Hilary Crisp, London
Stand Opposite of the Chorus, curated by Laura Mott, Galleri Rotor, Gothenburg
Not Yet, curated by Filipa Ramos and Antonio Contador, The Barber Shop, Lisbon
Ex-Libris, Galerie VidalCuglietta, Brussels
Llama 2, Ana Cardoso, Matt Keegan, Lisa Oppenheim, Lisa Tan,and Amy Granat, Galeria Nuno Centeno, Porto
2010 Llama organized by Lisa Oppenheim, with Ana Cardoso, Matt Keegan, Lisa Tan, and Amy Granat, Conduits, Milan
Kierkegaard’s Walk, curated by Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, Galeria Marília Razuk, São Paulo
Signs of Life, organized by Gladys-Katherina Hernando, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
Time’s Arrow, curated by Ben Loveless, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm
Sur le Dandysme, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Compostela
For a Brief Time Only at a Location Near You, curated by David Horvitz, Golden Parachutes, Berlin
North Drive Press, NDP#5, Edited by Matt Keegan and Sadie Laska, Printed Matter, New York
2009 Private View II, Andreas Grimm, Munich
There is No(w) Romanticism, curated by Lilou Vidal, Galerie Les filles du Calvaire, Brussels
On the Beaten Path: Exposition d’œuvres de la collection du Frac Bourgogne, Espace Georges Brassens, Talant
STILL / MOVING / STILL, curated by Marc Glöde, Cultuurcentrum Knokke-Heist, Belgium
House Call, curated by Piper Marshall and Alex Gartenfeld, Three’s Company, New York
2008 Ambassador Suites, organized by Katarina Burin, Galerie Lucile Corty, Paris
The World Is All That Is The Case, curated by Arthur Ou, Hudson Franklin, New York
Sturm und Drang, Galerie Kamm, Berlin
Archeology of Longings, curated by Sofia Hernandez, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris
Nina in Position, curated by Jeffrey Uslip, Artists Space, New York
2007 Love Life Film, One Night Stand (Paris) screening, curated by Christian Rattemeyer, Standard Hotel, Miami
2006 Local Transit, curated by Brian Butler, Artspace, Auckland
Standard Hotel Edition for Miami Basel, curated by Cay Sophie Rabinowtiz and Christian Rattemeyer, Miami
2005 Happenstance, curated by Lauri Firstenberg, Harris Lieberman, New York
Go Figure, Grimm | Rosenfeld, New York
In the Neighborhood of Infinity, Sixteen:One, Los Angeles
2004 Based on a True Story, curated by Christian Rattemeyer, Artists Space, New York
Mind Over Manner, Grimm | Rosenfeld, Munich
2003 Game Over, Grimm | Rosenfeld, Munich
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2011 Haskell, Caitlin, "Two Birds, Eighty Mountains and a Portrait of the Artist," Review, Art Lies, No. 68, Spring 2011
O'Neill-Butler, Lauren, "Two Birds, Eighty Mountains and a Portrait of the Artist," Review, Artforum, April 2011
Tagliafierro, Marco, "Llama", Critics’ Picks, Artforum.com, January
Revue J’aime beaucoup ce que vous faites, Issue 5, edited by Christian Alandete and Agnès Violeau, February
2010 O’Neill-Butler, Lauren and Lisa Tan, 500 Words on “Les Samourais” (interview), artforum.com, April
Portabledocument, edited by David Dodge, May 2010., http://www.portabledocument.org/
2009 Glänta, Issue 409, edited by Göran Dahlberg, December, p. 15
thislongcentury, edited by Lim, Georgina, Stefan Pietsch, Jason Evans and Kate Sennert, August,
http://www.thislongcentury.com/
Tristan Trémeau, “There is No(w) Romanticism” Review, Le Même, Issue 43, June
Blind Spot, Issue 40, guest edited by Arthur Ou
Stillpass, Zoe, “Ambassador Suites,” Review, Flash Art, January-February
2008 Sennewald, Jens Emil, “Archeology of Longing” Review, Lacritique.org, December 18
Désanges, Guillaume, “Archeology of Longing” Review, Exit Express, November
Hernandez Chong Cuy, Sofia, “84 handkercheifs, an umbrella and some books,”
catalogue for Archeology of Longing,Kadist Art Foundation, September
O’Neill-Butler, Lauren, “Moving a Mountain,” Critics’ Picks, Artforum.com, May
Cotter, Holland, “Nina in Position,” Review, The New York Times, February 15
Cole, Lori, “Nina in Position,” Artforum Pick Online, March
2007 Smolik, Noemi, “The Baudelaire Itineraries” Review, Artforum, September
Zellen, Jody, “One Night Stand,” Review, Art Papers, March
2006 Rattemeyer, Christian. “First Take,” Artforum, January
Pollack, Barbara. “Happenstance,” Review, Time Out, Jan 5-11, Issue 536
2005 Cotter, Holland. “Happenstance,” Review, The New York Times, Dec 30
Tan, Lisa. “The Garden of Earthly Delights,” Artist’s Project, X-Tra Contemporary Art Quarterly, Summer5
2004 Sicha, Choire, “Liars and Forgetters,” The New York Times, Sunday October 17
2002 Lehmann, Ulrike. “Der Erfundene Zwilling,” Kunstforum International, Bd. 158 January, March
GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES
2008 PLATFORM Grand Est, Frac Bourgogne (Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain – Région Bourgogne)
El Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Art and Research 08, with Exhibition
2004 The Durfee Foundation, Artists’ Resource for Completion Grant