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Trained as a graphic designer, Tattfoo Tan’s art practice seeks to find an immediate, direct,
and effective way of exploring issues related to the individual in society through which to
collapse the categories of ‘art’ and ‘life’ into one. Through the employment of multiple forms
of media and various platforms of presentation, Tattfoo promotes group participation between himself and an ‘audience’. Within this collaborative practice both minds and bodies are
engaged in actions that transform the making of art into a ritualized and shared experience.
In keeping with the spirit of this transformative act, Tattfoo prefers to develop projects that
are ephemeral and conceptual in nature.
Projects
2010 NMS-Nature Matching System at PS971, commissioned by Percent for the Arts, Brooklyn, New York
2008 Happy Birthday in Metropole, Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, Queens, New York
2008 Bread Rock in The Last Supper-Film, Art, Music, Food Festival, Brooklyn, New York
2008 Fake Attraction in Conflux Festival, St. George, Staten Island, New York
2008 Open Secret in Living Room, a project of Flux Factory in conjunction of New York Open House,
curated by Chen Tamir, New York City, New York
2008 NMS-Nature Matching System at Port Authority Bus Terminal,
commissioned by Fashion Center Business Improvement District and Time Square Alliance, New York City, New York
2008 NMS-Nature Matching System commissioned by Summer Workshop & Creative Lab of Empire State Partnerships
at C.W. Post Campus, Brookville, New York
2008 "This Case of Conscience”: Spiritual Flushing and the Remonstrance, Share-A-Prayer,
Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York
2008 My El Barrio in Art for Change's Hacia Afuera, New York City, New York
2008 Violence Transformed, Doric Hall, Massachusetts State House, Beacon Hill, Boston, Massachusetts
2008 PONDering, Earlville Opera House, Earlville, New York
2008 Artist in Residency 2007 Showcase, Center for Book Arts, New York City, New York
2008 DUMBO NMS mural, Front Street (between Adams and Pearl Street), Brooklyn, New York
commissioned by DUMBO Improvement District and Department of Transportation
2008 Eat Draw Play, Azarian McCullough Art Gallery at St. Thomas Aquinas College, Sparkill, New York
2008 Cuisine du Jour, Lower East Side Tenement Museum, New York City, New York
2008 Fine Art Adoption Network Selection Showcase, Pocket Utopia, Brooklyn, New York
2007 Bread Rock at Drift Art Project, Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation, New York City, New York
2007 Reconstruction: Concrete Jungle, public intervention, commisioned by The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and
The Downtown Alliance, site located on Broadway and Fulton Street
2007 Everyone Is An Artist, Redux Contemporary Art Center, Charleston, South Carolina
2007 Bread Rock at Empire Fulton Ferry State Park, DUMBO Art Festival, DUMBO Art Center, Brooklyn, New York
2007 Bread Rock at The Field, Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, Queens, New York
Shows and Exhibitions
2006 Tattfoo Tan and Cindy Suriyani, Paulina Miller Gallery, Pheonix, Arizona
2006 PONDering, Peng Gallery, solo show, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2006 Passage, Cheryl McGinnis Gallery, solo show, New York City, New York
2006 Welcome/Home, Cheryl McGinnis Gallery, group show, New York City, New York
2006 Tattfoo Tan New Paintings, Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art, solo show, New York City, New York
2006 Making a Difference through the Arts, Cityarts Benefit, The Chelsea Art Museum, New York City, New York
2006 Repetition; negotiating the irrationalities, ArtSpace@16, group show, Malden, Massachusetts
2006 Between Two Worlds: Reflections of Contemporary Chinese Art, Flushing Council on Culture & the Arts,
Smithsonian Institution Affiliations Program, Flushing Town Hall, Queens, New York
2006 Night of 1,000 Drawings, Artists Space, New York City, New York
2006 Works on Paper, Flux Factory, group show, Long Island City, New York
2005 Postcard from the Edge, Benefit for Visual AIDS, Robert Miller Gallery, group show, New York City, New York
2005 Emerge Six: Aljira A Center for Contemporary Art, group show, Newark, New Jersey
2005 Rain Event Benefit, Contemporary Art Center, group show, New Orleans, Louisiana
2005 The Asian Poster, Track 16 Gallery, group show, Santa Monica, California
2005 Nutureart “Nurturing the New ‘05”, Spike Gallery, group show, New York City, New York
2005 CityArts Benefit, The American Society, group show, New York City, New York
2005 TanahAir: The Cultral Hybrid Series, Peng Gallery, solo show, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2005 Biannual All Artist Show, Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art, group show, New York City, New York
2004 Works on Paper, Peng Gallery, group show, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2004 Draw, Drawing, Gallery 32, group show, London
2004 Affordable Art Fair, Latin Collector, group show, New York City, New York
2004 Secret Garden, David Allen Gallery, solo show, Brooklyn, New York
2004 Paintings From Within, Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art, solo show, New York City, New York
2003 The Invisible Thread, The Buddhism Project, Newhouse Contemporary Art, group show, Staten Island, New York
2003 New York Paints, Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art, New York City, New York
2003 DNA Gallery, group show, Provincetown, Massachusetts
2002 Ambience, Art Corridor, Malden Cable Television Network, Malden, Massachusetts
2002 Small Works, ArtSpace@16, group show, Malden, Massachusetts
2002 Get Real Art, group show, New York City
2002 Gallery Petite, group show, Clinton, New Jersey
2002 Salon Show, Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, group show, Brooklyn, New York
2001 Gift Show, Mastel+Mastel Gallery, group show, Brooklyn, New York
2001 SG Series, Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, solo show, Brooklyn, New York
2001 Tanah Air, The Cultural Hybrid, The Cultural Project, solo show, New York City, New York
Bibliography
Artist to fix eyesore with kids’ help, Adam F. Hutton, The Brooklyn Paper, January 19, 2008
A culinary window to immigrants’ home life, Sylvia Carter, Newsday, February 6, 2008
Pickled memories, Kate McKean, Metro, January 24, 2008
Art, food for thought at Tenement Museum, Michael Fressola, Staten Island Advance, January 27, 2008
Preserved memory by pickling in a bottle, Mike Liu, Sing Tao Daily, January 7, 2008
Immigrants cuisine made local, David Hsieh, World Journal, January 25, 2008
Dressing Up Those Bleak Downtown Construction Sites, David W. Dunlap, New York Times, November 2007
Downtowners deconstruct construction art, Margarita Lopez, Downtown Express, November 16, 2007
Dress your side walk in orange and yellow, Michael Fressola, Staten Island Advance, November 29, 2007
Construction site serve as canvas for art, Amy Zimmer, Metro, November 14, 2007
Kedah boy earns his stripes in Big Apple, Foo Yee Ping, The Star, December 1, 2007
Orange Zebra Stripes painted on concrete barrier, Mike Liu, Sing Tao Daily, November 26, 2007
DIY Art, Redux exhibit let’s you play around, Nick Smith, Charleston City Paper, October 10, 2007
Ancient art gets a modern touch, Leslie Brefeld, Summit Daily News, November 2006
Interpretation of Nature, David Hsieh, World Journal, April 18, 2006
Scholar Rock - reflection and contemplation, Mike Liu, Sing Tao Daily, April 10, 2006
Repetition, building new artistic play ground at Artspace@16, Sing Tao Daily, March 20, 2006
Between Two Worlds, group show in Flushing in celebration of Lunar New Year, Sing Tao Daily, January 31, 2006
Between Two Worlds, a group show of five Chinese Artist, Richard Liang, World Journal, February 1, 2006
A Multicultural Sampler, Benjamin Genocchio, The New York Times, December 25, 2005
Art Review, Holland Cotter, The New York Times, December 9, 2005
A Home for an Artist, and for Art, Fred A. Bernstein, The New York Times, November 27, 2005
Asian Artist is Leading Contemporary Art in Staten Island, Mike Liu, Sing Tao Daily, November 28, 2005
Tattfoo Tan: Tanah Air: The Cultural Hybrid Series, Roberta Fallon, Philadelphia Weekly, April 13-19, 2005
Tattfoo Tan solo exhibition in April at Philadelphia, Mike Liu, Sing Tao Daily, March 29, 2005
Paper World at Peng, Roberta Fallon, www.fallonandrosof.com/artblog, November 29, 2004
Carving Out a Cultural Corner in Staten Island, Sarah Wyatt, New York Sun, November 16, 2004
Metaphor in Black and White, Mike Liu, Sing Tao Daily, June 2004
A Boom Grows in Brooklyn, James Kalm, New York Arts Magazine, 2004
Islands Hopping, Brian Glaser, Visual Arts Journal, School of Visual Arts Magazine, Fall 2004
Immersion in Art, Foon Fong Loh, The Star, Malaysia, June 2004
(Ad)venture, Laura Jean Watters, Council for the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island,
Arts and Letters, March/April 2004
Finding Surprises as They Are Turned Up by the Karma Wheel, New York Times, Holland Cotter, November 7, 2003
A Poetry of Transience, Shambhala Sun, March 2004
Paintings from Within, Mike Liu, Sing Tao Daily, January 12, 2004
Artist Designer Launches in House Island Gallery, Michael Fressola, Staten Island Advance, February 23, 2003
Temple of art in the Big Apple, Johan Fernandaz, The Star, September 28, 2003
Malden Observer, November 28, 2002
Awards, Programs and Workshops
Art for Recovery, Verazzano Foundation, artist workshop with participants recovering from mental illness, 2007
The Center for Book Arts, Artist-in-Residence Workspace Program, 2007
Tin Shop Guest Artist program, Breckenridge, CO, 2006
Council on the Arts & Humanities for Staten Island, 2005 Premier Grant for “Multiple”.
Council on the Arts & Humanities for Staten Island, 2004 Exhibiting Arts Award.
ALJIRA, Emerge Six, 2004
The One Academy Platinum Achiever Awards 2003
Singapore International Design Award 2002
Arjo Wiggins Horseman Design Award 1999
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