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Jay Tan
Born 1982, Croydon, UK
Based in Rotterdam
mob: +31 (0) 64000 54 35
jaywendytan@gmail.com
www.jaytan.eu

Forthcoming
2024
The Fountain Show, Kunsthal Mechelen
Solo Show, Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam

Solo Exhibitions/Performances
2020
Spaghetti Junction, Solo Show, Centre d'art Albert Chanot, Clamart, Paris
2019
Homework, Bologna.cc, Amsterdam
2018
You Come in Here Giving it All This, with Geo Wyeth, U-jazdowski Castle, CCA Warsaw
Cinema Enima 1, with Geo Wyeth, Showroom Mama
2017
Nnniiuuaaarrgh, collaboration with Geo Wyeth, Ellen De Bruijne Projects
2015
Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em, Gallerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
Basic-Fit Brede Aa Chassé Chassé Chassé, Club Solo, Breda
2014
You Can Stand and Watch Or Spar, Trapéz Gallery, Budapest
2013
Oh Be A Fine Guy, Kiss Me, Camden Arts Centre, London
The Retired Engineer, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam
2011
The Work Is Spun, The Process Is Spinning, Rongwrong, Amsterdam
2008
What Can A Man Believe? Enders, London


Group Shows
2024 Court Play, Hartwig Art Foundation, Amsterdam
2023 Les àside·e·s, Immanence, Paris
Unruly Kinships, Temporary Gallery, Cologne
2022 Testament, Goldsmiths CCA, London
2021 To Be Like Water, Tent, Rotterdam
DOLF HENKES PRIZE EXHIBITION, Tent, Rotterdam
2019 Tabula Rasa, Watermill Center, Long Island, NY
Take (a)Back the Economy, Centre d'art Albert Chanot, Clamart, Paris
Perspectives, Kunstfort, Vijfhuizen
She is the Future, Kunstverein Langenhagen, Langenhagen
2018 Sesamstraat, Gemaal op Zuid, Art and Community Centre, Rotterdam
La Part Mortelle, Perrette Productions, Brussels
Declassment, Chateau d’Oiron, France
2017 Mothers & Daughters, Beursschouwburg, Brussels
Amended Plastics, Puntweg, Amsterdam
Continuous Movement, Hangar, Lisbon
The Future of Solidarity, Corridor Project Space, Amsterdam
Enheduanna we’ll come web, Buenos Tiempos, Int.
Living Room/Salon Hang, Kunstverein, Amsterdam
Scattered Disk, Futura, Prague
2016 Volkskrant Beeldende Kunst Prijs, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Schiedam
Project Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Survival Guides for Ballroom Dancers…, Vleeshal, Middleburg
Laugh, LD50, London
2015 A Million Lines, Galeria Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków
XII Baltic Triennial, Centre of Contemporary Art, Vilnius
Pillar Huggers, Or Gallery, Berlin
2014 Blind Stitch, Trapéz, Budapest
Play Time, Biennale D’art Contemporain de Rennes, Brittany
Radioscopie, KARST gallery, Plymouth, UK
Une Exposition Avec de la Céramique, Portmanteau, Genève
2013 From Morn Til Midnight, Supportico Lopez, Berlin
Reach Out and Touch Me, Hollybush Gardens, London
2012 LONDON – MUNICH, CUL DE SAC, London
Everything Must Go, MaGICBaR, Rotterdam
2011 HOME, Weltraum, Atelierhaus Baumstraße, Munich
2010 Bosch Young Talent Show, St Joost’s Academy of Art and Design, Den Bosch

Awards, Grants, Residencies
2021 Dolf Henkes Prize (short list), Nominated by Evelyn Taocheng Wang
2017-2018 Mondriaan Fonds Proven Talent Grant
2016 De Volkskrant Kunst Prijs (short list), Nominated by Fiona Tan (no relation)
2014-2015 Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten
2015 Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst Project Grant
2013 Radio Writing Residency, Camden Arts Centre, London
2012 Collectors of Contemporary Art Foundation Rotterdam, Annual Commission
2012 Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Rotterdam, Research and Development Grant
2009 NUFFIC Huygens Scholarship Programme

Education
2008 -2010 MFA Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam
2001 -2004 BA Fine Art, Middlesex University

Publications

2021 Metropolis M, Utrecht
2017 Blue Paper, Prague
2016 Four Seasons, P/////AKT, Amsterdam
Laugh Magazine, London
Metropolis M, Utrecht
2015 Girls Like Us Magazine, Amsterdam/Brussels
2013 Metropolis M, Utrecht
2010 Charming the Snake of Reason, Enjoy Public Art Gallery, New Zealand


Talks, Presentations, Screenings
2021 Curation: Studium Generale, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
2020 Display and Displacement, If I Can’t Dance, radio emma w/ Charl Landvreugd and Rita Ouedraogo
2019 A talk with poems about dreams and people, Bologna.cc, Amsterdam
2019 Domestic Goddesses: Housewives with Steak Knives, ArtEZ Institute of the Arts, Arnhem
2019 Unnatural levels and flaws of cis-fairness, Queering Sports, WdKA, Rotterdam
2019 Domestic Goddesses: Housewives with Steak Knives, Studium Generale, Gerrit Rietveld Academie
2018 Library Talk, Gerrit Rietveld Academie
2013 In/ Between Cities, TENT, Rotterdam
Current Values, Performance, TENT, Rotterdam
C.o.C.A. Presentation, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam
2011 On Pottering, Guest Room, Rotterdam
Crafternoon, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam
2010 Show and Tell: The Politics of Silence and The Power of Discourse, Witte de With Center for
Contemporary Art, Rotterdam

Teaching
2022 - pres Guest teacher, Masters of Fine Art, Sandberg Institute
2022 - pres Tutor, BA Fine Arts, KABK, Den Haag
2019 - pres Core Tutor, Master of Artistic Research, KABK, Den Haag
2017 - pres Mentor + core teacher BA Fine Arts, Gerrit Rietveld Academie
2019 - pres Annual Reading Seminar, Studium Generale, Gerrit Rietveld Academie
2022 Guest teacher, Studio for Immediate Spaces, Sandberg Institute
2022 External Examiner, Masters of Fine Art, Sandberg Institute
2020 - 2021 Tutor, BA Fine Art ArtEZ Arnhem
2019 Tutor, Cultural Diversity, WdKA, Rotterdam
2019 External examiner, Cultural Diversity, WdKA, Rotterdam
2019 Guest Tutor, Master of Artistic Research, KABK, Den Haag
2019 Workshop, ArtEZ Institute of the Arts, Arnhem
2016 Guest advisor/curator 4th yr Fine Arts, KABK, Den Haag
2016 Guest tutor BA Fine Arts Gerrit Rietveld Academie
2016 Guest tutor BA Image and Text Gerrit Rietveld Academie
2015 Guest tutor BA Fine Arts Gerrit Rietveld Academie
2015 Guest tutor + 1 day seminar Artez, Arnhem: BA Fine Art


Educational boards/councils/Collaborations
2012 – pres Board of Advisors, Piet Zwart Institute MFA
2022 Code of Conduct committee member, Gerrit Rietveld Academie
2018 - 2021 Co-founding member of Queer Comunity Centre, Tender Center, Rotterdam
https://tendercenter.space/About-1
2018 - 2021 Member of Medezeggenschapsraad, Gerrit Rietveld Academie
2019 - 2020 Student Support Committee, Gerrit Rietveld Academie

JAY TAN