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. Tattfoo’s has shown his works and talk in various venues and institutions including; Queens Museum of Art, Lower East Side Tenement Museum, Artisphere, The City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs Percent for the Arts, Eugene Lang College New School for Liberal Arts, Parsons the New School for Design, Fashion Institute of Technology, Syracuse University, Macalester College, Pratt Institute, The Center for Book Arts, Bronx River Art Center, Aljira - A Center for Contemporary Art, Project Row Houses, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati and The Laundromat Project. He has be recognized for his effort, service and artistic contribution to the community
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Solo Exhibitions 2013 S.O.S. at Culture Lounge, Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island, Staten Island, New York 2011 S.O.S. Guilds, Artisphere, Arlington, VA 2009 Black Gold with Abigail DeVille curated by José Ruiz at Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, New York 2008 Eat Draw Play, Azarian McCullough Art Gallery at St. Thomas Aquinas College, Sparkill, New York Cuisine du Jour, Lower East Side Tenement Museum, New York, New York PONDering, Earlville Opera House, Earlville, New York 2007 Everyone Is An Artist, Redux Contemporary Art Center, Charleston, South Carolina 2006 PONDering, Peng Gallery, solo show, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Passage, Cheryl McGinnis Gallery, New York, New York Tattfoo Tan New Paintings, Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art, New York, New York 2005 TanahAir: The Cultral Hybrid Series, Peng Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2004 Secret Garden, David Allen Gallery, solo show, Brooklyn, New York Paintings From Within, Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art, solo show, New York, New York 2001 SG Series, Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, solo show, Brooklyn, New York Tanah Air, The Cultural Hybrid, The Cultural Project, solo show, New York, New York
Group Exhibitions 2013 Upstream/Downstream, curated by Ruthann Godollei, The 2013 Southern Graphics Council International Printmaking Conference, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee, March 20 – 23, 2013 Common Interests: Mobility and Transformation of Public Life, curated by Sara Reisman, FEAST! The Art of Playing With Your Food, The New Children's Museum, San Diego, California MoMA Design Store, Destination: NYC, Nature Matching System Placemat will be available in store & online May 2013 Green Acres: Artists Farming Fields, Greenhouses and Abandoned Lots 2012 Re:Green, Martha Gault Art Gallery, Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania S.O.S. L-A-W-N at Arthur M. Berger Gallery, Manhattanville College, Purchase, New York Trash Talk, curated by Lisa Dahl, Spattered Columns, New York, New York Made You Look: Hidden Narratives Unveiled, Spattered Columns, New York, New York Core77 Open: All City All Stars on the occasion of New York Design Week, 350 Bowery, New York, New York Art, Environment, Action! Parsons The New School for Design, New York, New York Green Acres: Artists Farming Fields, Greenhouses and Abandoned Lots, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio 2011 With Food in Mind curated by Nicole Caruth at The Center for Book Arts, New York, New York Contain, Sustain, Maintain, curated by Sara Reisman, Welmoed Laanstra and Ernesto Santalla, Chat Room curated by Krista Saunders at BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, New York Toy and Game with a Twist at Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx, New York Round 34: Matter of Food curated by Ashley Clemmer-Hoffman and Linda Shearer LUMEN, curated by Denise Carvalho, Staten Island, New York Mobility, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, New York Marie Celeste, Artspace, New Haven, Connecticut 2010 Brooklyn Utopias: Farm City curated by Katherine Gressel and Derek Denckla at Old Stone House, Brooklyn, New York Irrelevant: Local Emerging Asian Artists Who Don’t Make Work About Being Asian, Arario Gallery, New York, New York NMS and Lights Resolve’s animated graphic at LUMEN at Atlantic Salt, Staten Island, New York Food Game, Game Play: A Juried Exhibition of Art Inspired By Games at H. Don and Connie J. Osborne Family Gallery at the Dr. C.C. and L. Mabel Criss Library at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Hope-a-holic, curated by Patrick Grenier, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island, New York 2009 Mobile Garden and Sign of Growth with Simonetta Moro, Eve S. Mosher and students of Eugene Lang College at Art in Odd Places along 14th Street, New York, New York Photopurri at This & That International Mail Art Swap, Curated by Christine Wong Yap and exhibited in Involved, Socially curated by Michelle Blade at Triple Base Gallery, San Francisco Plan B curated by Krista Saunders at NurtureArt, Brooklyn, New York Value Pack at Art By The Ferry Festival, Staten Island, New York NMS-Nature Matching System animated graphic projecction, debut with Lights Resolve at High Line Ballroom, New York, New York NMS-Nature Matching System Seceen Saver, available for free download at www.tattfoo.com 2008 Metro Poles: Art In Action, at Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, Queens, New York, curated by Heng-Gil Han, Bread Rock in The Last Supper-Film, Art, Music, Food Festival, Brooklyn, New York Fake Attraction in Conflux Festival, St. George, Staten Island, New York Open Secret in Living Room, a project of Flux Factory in conjunction of Open House New York, “This Case of Conscience”: Spiritual Flushing and the Remonstrance, Share-A-Prayer, Violence Transformed, Doric Hall, Massachusetts State House, Boston, Massachusetts, My El Barrio in Art for Change’s (an organization that provides a forum for creating innovative art and media programs that Memento Mori, The F.U.E.L. Collection, LLC, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, curated by Katerina Lydon-Warner Artist in Residency 2007 Showcase, Center for Book Arts, New York, New York Fine Art Adoption Network Selection Showcase, Pocket Utopia, Brooklyn, New York 2007 Bread Rock at Drift Art Project, Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation, New York, New York, Bread Rock at Empire Fulton Ferry State Park, DUMBO Art Festival, DUMBO Art Center, Brooklyn, New York The Field, Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, Queens, New York, curated by Heng-Gil Han 2006 Tattfoo Tan and Cindy Suriyani, Paulina Miller Gallery, Pheonix, Arizona Welcome/Home, Cheryl McGinnis Gallery, group show, New York, New York Making a Difference through the Arts, Cityarts Benefit, The Chelsea Art Museum, New York, New York Repetition; negotiating the irrationalities, ArtSpace@16, group show, Malden, Massachusetts Between Two Worlds: Reflections of Contemporary Chinese Art, Flushing Council on Culture & the Arts, Night of 1,000 Drawings, Artists Space, New York, New York 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, New York Rain Event Benefit, Contemporary Art Center, group show, New Orleans, Louisiana The Asian Poster, Track 16 Gallery, group show, Santa Monica, California Nutureart “Nurturing the New ‘05”, Spike Gallery, group show, New York, New York CityArts Benefit, The American Society, group show, New York, New York Biannual All Artist Show, Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art, group show, New York, New York 2004 Works on Paper, Peng Gallery, group show, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Draw, Drawing, Gallery 32, group show, London Affordable Art Fair, Latin Collector, group show, New York, New York 2003 The Invisible Thread, The Buddhism Project, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island, New York New York Paints, Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art, New York, New York DNA Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts 2002 Ambience, Art Corridor, Malden Cable Television Network, Malden, Massachusetts Small Works, ArtSpace@16, Malden, Massachusetts Get Real Art, New York, New York Gallery Petite, Clinton, New Jersey Salon Show, Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Brooklyn, New York 2001 Gift Show, Mastel+Mastel Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
Programs, Presentations and Workshops 2013 Making Art with Food in Mind with Nicole Caruth at Just Food’s Eat Work Grow Conference, New York, New York 2012 Feeding the World: Globalization, Food, and Agriculture in the 21st Century, Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota Visiting Artist at 601 Tully, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York Salute to Women in the Arts, an affiliate of the Art Center of Northern New Jersey 2011 Ecoartspace at The New New York, Green Home NYC’s DIY Green Block Party, Brooklyn, New York Urban by Nature with Vincent Appel and Everett Hollander at BMW Guggenheim Lab, New York, New York A-Lab Forum: ARTE SOCIAL presented by Queens Media Arts Development, Queens, New York New New Yorkers Student Council presentation at Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York The People’s Potluck, New York City, supported by MAPP International Productions S.O.S. Guilds, an artist initiated grant program using art as a tool for social change on sustainability and ecology. 2010 Agents of Change: Artists and Sustainability, Brandon Ballengee, Jackie Brookner, Eve Andree Laramee, Stacy Levy, and Creative Action and Everyday Urban Agriculture, Living Concrete / Carrot City at The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, Salt at Queens Museum of Art’s 2010 Gala, Queens, New York Mobile Garden attending NYU Program Board and Earthmatters programming at Solar One, New York, New York Mobile Garden attending St. George Day, Staten Island, New York The Urban Wilderness Action Center (UWAC) is a project initiated by Eyebeam alum Jon Cohrs, in collaboration with the Eyebeam Student Residents (New York), Eyebeam Education Coordinator Stephanie Pereira, and UK-based Umami ( Food & Art Festival ): Urban Garden Roundtable, Sunday, March 14th, Solar One, Green Energy, Arts & Education Visiting Artist at Pratt Institute on the topic The Role of Object in Arts and Cultural Management Program class 2009 Enacting Change: The Artist’s Role in Social and Political Transformation: panel discussion at inaugural Artist Forum Visual Art & New Media grant review panel for Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, New York The Queens Museum of Art and MetLife Foundation’s First Sunday for Families Artist Workshop, Contemporary Interpretation of Traditional Philosophy by Tattfoo Tan at Fashion Institute of Technology An online conversation between students of California Institute of Arts and artist Tattfoo Tan, “Community, Public, and Intervention Art: Creating Art in Your Community – A Cross-Borough Dialogue”. Windows Advisory Committee for Tenement Museum (A New York City Museum that tells the stories of immigrants who lived in 97 Orchard Street, a tenement built in 1863 on Manhattan’s Lower East Side) 2008-2009 Panelist in Visual Arts Panel Discussion, Breaking Into the Visual Arts presented by Council on the Arts & Humanities for Mobile Garden on board the Waterpod (Mary Mattingly’s floating sculptural habitat and community) as Artist in Residence 2008 Queens Museum of Art, Artist talk for the educators at Charles R. Drew Early Learning Center, June 5, 2008
Awards 2011 Love Your Block Grant, NYC Service and Citizens Committee for New York City, awarded for S.O.S. Guilds Greenade wildflower planting campaign. Real Community Engagement, Creative Capital’s Professional Development Program 2010 Annual Awards for Exellence in Design, Public Design Commission of the City of New York, for the Rehabilitation of the Bronx River Art Center ,1087 East Tremont Avenue, Bronx. A Project of the Department of Design and Construction, the Department of Cultural Affairs and the Bronx River Art Center by Sage and Coombe Architects and Tattfoo Studio S.O.S. Sustainable. Organic. Stewardship. in The Laundromat Project, Create Change Public Artist Residency Mobile Garden Expo is made possible with grants from Summerfest, Council on the Arts & Humanities for Staten Island and supported by New York City Department of Transportation’s Urban Art Program within the Arteventions program 2009 Compiling Your Heirloom Recipe made possible with grant from FIT Diversity Council as Artist-in-Residence with S.O.S. Sustainable. Organic. Stewardship., an urban farming project with grant from Council on the Arts & Humanities for Staten Island, New York State Council on the Arts Original Work Grantees Nuevo Americana Recipe is made possible by JPMorganChase Arts In Our Communities Regrant. The project is printed as a special insertion to Council on the Arts & Humanities for Staten Island newsletter Articulation, Celebrating The Art of Community & The Community of Art, Proclaimation presented by Council member, Kenneth C. Mitchell, 49th District, City of New York 2007 Art for Recovery, Verazzano Foundation artist workshop with participants recovering from mental illness Artist-in-Residence Workspace Program, The Center for Book Arts, New York, New York 2006 Tin Shop Guest Artist program, The Town of Breckenridge, Colorado 2005 Premier Grant for “Multiple” a curated exhibition of Yoonjo Chun, Tamiko Kawata, Wen-Fu Yu from Council on the Arts 2004 Exhibiting Arts Award, Council on the Arts & Humanities for Staten Island, Staten Island, New York Emerge Six (artist professional development program and exhibition), ALJIRA, Newark, New Jersey 2003 The One Academy Platinum Achiever Awards, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2002 Singapore International Design Award, Singapore 1999 Arjo Wiggins Horseman Design Award, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Commissions / Public Art 2012 S.O.S. p:ARK, 5x5 projects, Washington, D.C., commissioned by DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, Enri¢hed, commissioned by Umami Food & Art Festival, 3rd Ward, Brooklyn, New York 2011 S.O.S. Pledge, Public Art commissioned by Percent for the Arts and School Construction Authority 2010 S.O.S. Mobile Classroom, commissioned by fi:af French Institute Alliance Française: Crossing The Line-Farm City, Percent for the Arts and School Construction Authority DIrtY Dancing, Empire State Partnerships/TEDx at Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, New York 2009 Flushing Ethnography with Fashion Institute of Technology Presidential Scholars, the honors program in 2009 Foodgame commissioned by Empire State Partnerships, NYC Regional Learning and Leadership Network Spring Symposium at Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York 2008 NMS-Nature Matching System at Port Authority Bus Terminal, 2008 NMS-Nature Matching System commissioned by Summer Workshop & Creative Lab of Empire State 2008 DUMBO NMS-Nature Matching System mural, Front Street (between Adams and Pearl Street), Brooklyn, New York 2007 Re:construction: Concrete Jungle, public intervention, commissioned by The Lower Manhattan Cultural
If art is looking for a lareger purpose beyond commodity and investment vehicle, -Twylene Moyer, The New Earthwork: Art, Action, Agency
Bibliography The Growing Trend, Nicole J. Caruth, BigRedandShiny.com Green Acres, Artists Farming Fields, Greenhouses and Abandoned Lots, Sue Spaid, Contemporary Art Center, 2012 The New Earthwork: Art, Action, Agency, ISC Press, 2012 Courses and discourse, Jane F. Ragavan, The Star Malaysia, August 2011 Portrait of an Artist, Wily and Engaged, Christine Wong Yap, Art Practical, May 2011 New York Foundation for the Arts, Immigrant Artist Project Newsletter: Issue 15, August 24, 2010 Greenmonger at heart, Lim Ai Lee, The Star, September 12, 2010 Public Art; Paint-by-Vegetable Mural (With a Reminder to Eat Them), Haley Thurshwell, The New York Times, February 28, 2008 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
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