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Fiona Tan was born in Indonesia in 1966 and now lives in the Netherlands. She specialises in film and video installations, sometimes mixing newly shot material with archive footage, often examining questions of identity and visual culture. She exhibited at Documenta in Kassel 2002, at the Yokohama Triennale, 2002 and at the Venice Biennale, 2001. [...]

Born in California in 1969 and now lives in New York. She first became known through her adaptation of the 18th-19th Century art of silhouetting, which she uses to make stylised images which confront issues of racism, slavery, lust and domination. She has exhibited at London’s Hayward Gallery, and in France, Germany and at many [...]