TAN Tian
From being an interior designer of a hotel of decorative arts to working at the contemporary art gallery in Beijing, Tan Tian is stimulated by the dynamic relationships among artists, galleries, public, collectors and factory workers. Tan’s practice is not based on the nature or the essence of the medium itself, but a play or narrative among various mediums. Currently, he is developing two series based on their structural components: Family Structure and Parenthood. In Family Structure, the artist combines various media in a specific narrative in order to present a missing part formally, structurally, and allegorically. In Parenthood, by creating two pieces that have subtle or dynamic differences and similarities to inform, affect, subvert or interfere with, the duality becomes a form of infinite storytellings – a paradox.
Tan Tian (b. 1988, Beijing, China) received his MFA from the Liberal Arts Department of Kingston University London in 2012, and he is now studying at Hunter College in New York. Recent solo exhibitions include Welcome, WHITE SPACE BEIJING, Beijing, China (2016); Jump to Second Solo Show, WHITE SPACE BEIJING, Beijing, China (2015). Recent group exhibitions include Story: Born After the ’85 New Wave Generation Y of Contemporary Chinese Art, National Agricultural Exhibition Center, Beijing, China (2019); Becoming, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China (2018); I Do (Not) Want To Be Part of Your Celebration, Qiao Space, Shanghai, China (2017); Toward The Emergence of Resistance, Taikangspace, Beijing, China (2016); Neo-Eden, Suzhou Jinji Lake Art Museum, Suzhou, China (2016); Overpop, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China (2016); Turning Point: Contemporary Art in China Since 2000, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China (2016); The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China 2015, Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China (2016); Creating for the Future: Thinking About the Unthinkable, MOMENTUM Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2015); The 2nd CAFAM Future Exhibition: The Young Chinese Artists’ Representation of Reality, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China (2015). Tan Tian currently lives and works in Beijing, China.
SELECTED WORKS
NEWS
Reconstruction × RE’VAN
Epoch Art Museum
2020.9.27 – 12.20
The C: Digital interactive Art Experiment
TANK Shanghai
2020.7.1 – 9.30
Sculpture Projects Ping Yao
Pingyao, China
2018.7.20 – 8.20
I Do (Not) Want To Be Part Of Your Celebration
Qiao Space
2017.6.29 – 8.27
Toward The Emergence of Resistance
Taikang Space
2016.12.30 – 2017.3.4
Trick or Treat
Yang Art Museum
2016.5.14 – 5.22
Art Sanya: Scenarios of Time
Art Sanya
2015.12.17 – 2016.3.17
TAN TIAN: Jump to second solo show
ARTFORUM
2015.4.15
TAN TIAN：当如何成为艺术家成为问题本身
Hi Art
2015.4.10
TAN TIAN：惯例下的操演
Huang Bihe
2015.4.9
TAN TIAN·Jump to second solo show
Artnet News China
2015.4.9
Emergence of the next Generation
ARTCO
2015.3.12