Selected exhibitions and commissions /
2020
Barang-Barang, Stanley Picker Gallery, London (solo)
Screening of Repatriating The Object with No Shadow, CFCCA, Manchester
2019
Artquest ASSIST Award
While the West Slept, Performa, New York
By All Estimates, Centre For Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney
Paralogical Machines, Wei-Ling Contemporary, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
FLOW, curated a 3 day event at Raven Row, London – in association with AAA including screenings, presentations, performances by Sung Tieu, Fyerool Darma, Cuong Pham, Nie Xiaoyi, Bettina Fung, Ada Hao. https://asia-art-activism.net/2018/09/24/flow/
Stanley Picker Open Studios Event ‘Coconuts are Independent Travellers’ Erika Tan with Tat Whalley and Mita Vaghela
Contesting British Chinese Culture Book Launch and discussions - organised an evening of discussions, readings and performances with Diana Yeh (editor) and Felicia Chan, Rosa Fong, Katie Hill, susan pui san lok, Veronica Needa, Cuong Pham and Bettina Fung
Erika Tan & Bettina Fung: A Dialogue Still In The Making (2002 - 2018), limited edition artist book and performance with susan pui san lok, Cuong Pham, Bettina Fung, Erika Tan
2018
Asia-Art-Activism 1 year residency in Raven Row, London.
GAX (Global Asia/Pacific Art Exchange) NYU - London, Berlin Exchange, 2018
Decolonising Southeast Asian Art, MU/SOAS Newton Mobility Exchange, 2018
The Stanley Picker Fine Art Fellow, Kingston University
Common Third, Copperfield Gallery, London
UnAuthorised Medium, Framer Framed, Amsterdam
Diaspora Pavilion, Wolverhampton Art Gallery Jan – April
A Place in the World, Norwich University of the Arts Gallery
This is Water, MIMA, Middlesbrough
‘Here’ ...‘There’ / East & Southeast Asian Diasporic Art, 1 day conference co-convened with Alex Chang, GAX NYU. Including Pamela Corey, Viet Le, Oscar Ho, Margo Machida, Alice Ming Wai Jim, John Tain
‘Creating Interference’, CREAM, Westminster. Screening of Repatriating The Object with No Shadow.
2017
MAP3: ARCHIVING ‘ASIA’: Receiving/Reenacting/Rescripting - workshop performance by Erika Tan in collaboration with Whiskey Chow, Jess Heritage, Michael Taiwo and Hammad Nassar, LADA
Diaspora Pavilion Closing Events. Talks, performances, 24 to 27th Nov
Unruly Shadows: Artist Films and Videos on Challenging Spheres, NTU CCA, Singapore. Screening program
Diaspora Pavilion, 57th Venice Biennale May to November 2017
Apa Jika, The Mis-Placed Comma, commissioned for ‘Unrealised’, The National Gallery Singapore
On Attachments and Unknowns, SA SA BASSAC, Phnom Pen, Cambodia
The Forgotten Weaver – film production and publication
Radio Malaya, NUS Museum, Singapore
The Making of an Institution, NTU CCA, Singapore. Screening program
China Remixed, curated by Videotage, held in Indiana University, USA
2016
Artist & Empire, National Gallery Singapore. New commission: The Weavers Lament
Para-Site Residency, Hong Kong
Come Cannibalise Us, Why Don’t You? Artist book publication, launch, exhibition, and symposium. Central Saint Martins School of Art, London
Repatriating Gestures, The Victorian Vitrine, CSM, Granary Place, London
Museological Mediums and Cannibalistic Methods, symposium convenor and speaker, including Marian Pastor Rocces, Judy Freya Sibayan, Pamela Corey, Alison Green, Piers Masterson, CSM/UAL, London
2015
Halimah-the-Empire-Exhibition-weaver-who-died-whilst-performing-her-craft. Exhibition and performance debate in Lab: Place/Labour/Capital, NTU NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore. Curated by Ute Meta Bauer and Vera Mey
Artist Residency, NTU CCA, Singapore
“There are too many episodes of people coming here…” [projects 2008 – 2014], NUS Museum, Singapore.
Art Rhetorics: Debating History, Nation, and Art. The Ontological status of the forgotten Malay Weaver. Exhibition and live performance debate in EXPARTE, Brick Lane Gallery, London
2014
Double Visions, He Xiangning Museum of Art, Shenzen, China
Come Cannibalise Us, Why Don’t You? Artist book publication and launch. NUS Museum
Busan Biennale: Going, Going, Until I Meet The Tide, Special Exhibitions Project, S.Korea
2013
Come Cannibalise Us, Why Don’t You? / Sila Mengkanibalkan Kami Mahu Tak? NUS Museum, Singapore
Head In The Clouds, Research & Development funding from the Welcome Institute in association with Film & Video Umbrella, London
Film in Space, Camden Arts Centre. 16mm work shown as part of Anthology, compiled by Lucy Reynolds
2012
Encounter, Experience and Environment, Gillman Barracks, Singapore. Curated by Eugene Tan
Samsung Art Plus Prize, shortlisted artist. Exhibition at BFI, London
Singapore Arts Council New Creations Funding 2012-14 to research and produce: Repatriating the Object with no shadow. The colonial museum: origins, re-incarnations and transnational recuperations
Sinopticon, newly commissioned work, Plymouth College of Art Gallery, Plymouth
EDSA, public art project, curated by Marian Pasta Rocces and Judy Freya Sibayan, Manila
2011
Sinopticon, V+A late, screening Shot Through
2010
murmur, Waterside Project Space, London. Curated by Eliza Tan
Persistent Visions, Vargas Museum, Quezon City, Philippines. Curated by Patrick D. Flores
2009
Found & Lost, Osage Gallery Singapore. Curated by Tan Guo Liang
A Gift to Those Who Contemplate the Wonders of Cities and the Marvels of Travelling, BankART Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
Persistent Visions, NUS Gallery, Singapore. [solo] Curated by Ahmad Bin Mashadi
Free to Air, Video Screenings, Film & Video Umbrella, London. Curated by Melanie Keen
2008
NO HAY CAMINO/There Is No Road, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industria, Spain
Contemporary Chinoiserie, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London. Curated by Eliza Gluckman
Sites of Production, web publishing project in association with Manchester Corner House
Three Degrees Of Separation, Chelsea Future Space, London
A Gift to Those Who Contemplate the Wonders of Cities and the Marvels of Travelling, Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sunderland & S/Lab-BankART 1929 Residency, Yokohama, Japan [2 person show]
2007
Thermocline of Art: New Asian Waves, ZKM, Karlshurl, Germany
2006
BELIEF: Singapore Biennale, 2 new commissions
Curated by Fumio Nanjo, Roger MacDonald, Eugene Tan & Sharmini Pereira
A Round the World in 80 Days, ICA / South London Gallery. Curated by Jens Hoffman
Mining the Archive, Centre A, Vancouver. Curated by Alice Ming Wai Jim
Ghosting, a Picture This exhibition touring to: Angle Row Gallery, Nottingham. Chapter Gallery, Cardiff. Bristol, A Bond Space. Commissioned by Josephine Lanyon
2005
CAST, new video work shown in Reassurance, Triangle Space, London & Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester. Curated by Yue Lai Mo
Waterloo Sunset, multilingual radio intervention/broadcast made while on residency with BBC Radio London Robert Elms Show
Persistent Visions, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester. Video Commission with Picture This and Empire and Commonwealth Film Archives, Bristol
TWELVE, year-long curatorial project with The Green Centre World Art Collection, Museum of Brighton in association with Brighton and Hove Chinese Community
2004
Osawa Tsuyoshi: Answer with Yes or No, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo. Personalised Nasubi Gallery work
The Bigger Picture, Erika Tan, Anne Charnock, Michael Cousins. Exchange Square, Manchester, UK. (Screening linked to Incommunicado, Cornerhouse)
Faint, Droit House, Turner Contemporary, Margate. Video installation
BEACON a live art participatory event on Margate sea front -commission for Margate Mementoes a Turner Centre project, Margate
Identities Versus Globalisation, Chiangmai Art Museum, Bangkok National Gallery, Dahlem Museum, Berlin
Ideas for a better place? Commissioned project with Melanie Keen, London
2003
Strangers to Ourselves. Curated by Judith Stewart, Touring to Hastings Gallery & Museum, Canterbury, London
Incommunicado, Hayward Gallery Touring Show, Sainsbury Centre, Manchester Corner House, City Gallery, Edinburgh
Brighton Royal Pavilion Architecture Week Residency, collaboration with Anthony Lam
Science Fictions, The Esplanade, Singapore Art Festival. Curated by Earl Lu Gallery
In Situ, Forest of Dean Public Art Commission, permanent work in sculpture trail
2002
East England Arts, Commission for a permanent work in Eden House, Cambridge
CURIO, site-specific interventionist works for Hanbury Street, London
Identinet. Slotart Digital Commission, C4/ACE. www.identinet.net
PIDGIN Film & Video Umbrella Commission, touring Norwich Art Gallery, Aspex Gallery
2001
Touring London, inIVA web project. www.touringlondon.org. Curated by Oliver Sumner
Slipstream, digital web project with Film & Video Umbrella, ICA. www.slipstream.net
JUNCTURE, The Granary, Cape Town and Studio Voltaire London
2000
Unframing Process, CAS, Osaka, Japan. Curated by Tomoko Kuriowa
EAST International, Norwich Art Gallery. Selected by Keith Piper & Sebastian Lopez
1999
Cities On The Move, Hayward Gallery, London. Curated by Hou Hanru and Hans Ulrich Obrist
Empire & I, Pitshanger Manor, Ealing Broadway. Axiom Art Centre, Cheltenham
1998
Game Show, Belt –art project space, London. Curated by Andy Marsh & Amy Plant
Souvenirs, interventionist site specific project in Museum Street, London. Above:Below co-curation