xu tan
lives in Shenzhen, Guangzhou and New York.
1986-1989 Master degree, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts.
1993 Joined the Big Tailed Elephant Group.
2002 Fellowship of Asia Culture Council (Rockefeller
Foundation), New York.
2004 Artist in residence of DAAD, Berlin.
Solo Exhibitions 2009 Keywords
School at YBCA, Yerba Buena, San Francisco; Keywords School
at AAA, Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong.
2008 Keywords School, Vitamin Creative Space,
Guangzhou; Keywords School, Bonniers Konsthall?Stockholm, Sweden; Keywords?Life,
Existence, Survival, Frieze Art Fair, London.
2007 Searching for Keywords, Location 1 Art Center,
New York.
2005 Loose, Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou; Air
is Good,DAAD Gallery, Berlin.
2002 Location 1 Art Center, New York.
1996 Vermont Art center, USA.
Group Exhibitions 2009 Making
World, Venice Biennale 53rd International Art Exhibition, Venice; Whose
exhibition is it? – Asia art forum, Taipei.
2008 Transmediale 08, Berlin, Germany; Yes, No & Other
Options, Art Sheffield, Sheffield; Contemporary Art Forum, UK; Kunstfest
Weimar, Weimar, Germany.
2007 Hyper City, Berlin; Trans(ient) City,
Luxemburg.
2006 Asia art week: Asian Video Art selection, Moma New York
and Asia Society, New York.
2003 Zone of urgency (Dreams and Conflict) 50th Venice
Biennial; Alors, la Chine?, Center Pompidou, Paris.
2002 Pause, 4th Kwangju Art Biennial l, Kwangju,
Korea.
2001 2nd Berlin Biennial, Berlin.
1998 The First Taipei Biennial, Taipei.