Tan Jing (b. 1992, Shenzhen, China) lives and works between Jingdezhen and Shenzhen.
She experiments with textures, materials, and forms within sculpture and installation, through which she often combines the unpredictable composition of materials and techniques, with the whimsical intertwist of biological matters and folklore. Tan uses objects to create scenarios of the surreal within the space, striking the viewer aesthetically and psychologically, making visible and sensible the trauma and solitude of individuals in societies. Her works have been shown internationally in institutions such as Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai; HB Station, Guangzhou; X Museum, Beijing; Para Site, Hong Kong; Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou; Spielzeug Welten Museum, Basel; Camden Art Center project, London, and among others.
2024Nook of A Hazy Dream, Art Basel Hong Kong – Discoveries – MANGROVEGALLERY, Hong Kong, China
2023Inlet of Arid Dreams, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2021Trancing Lap Hung, HB Station of Contemporary Art / Research Center, Guangzhou, China
2022Soy Dreams of Milk, Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Magic Square: Art and Literature in Mirror Image, Biennial Beijing, Beijing, China
The Kick Inside, X Museum, Beijing, China
2021Curtain, Para Site, Hong Kong, China
Bare Screen, Macalline Art Center, Beijing, China
2020Study of Things – Or A Brief Story about Fountain, Brink, Tin, Coin, Stone, Shell, Curtain, and Body,
Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou, China
More More More, Tank Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Those Who See and Know All, Are All and Can Do All, Gallery Week Beijing, Beijing, China
2018Marriage: the Prelude in Curator’s Space, Guangzhou, China
Corporal Temperature, Pilotenkuche, Leipzig, Germany
Space Chorus, Alt Handelsschule Gallery, Leipzig, Germany
Re-set, Baolong Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Mut Zum Hut! Hats off to Hats!, Spielzeug Welten Museum, Basel, Switzerland
2017Yami-ichi Art Supported by Camden Art Centre, London, UK
2019Who is the Tiaoluo Maiden? Perfomative motif rewriting workshop, Top Space, Guangzhou, China
Fairy and Farmer, Top Space, Guangzhou, China
From Ground Up, North to South: Looking for the 9012 Mother Goddess, Six Space, Hanoi, Vietnam
Tentacles, Bangkok, Thailand
2017Art Education and Co-studying, Children Workshop, Design Museum, London, UK
2019OFFSHORE, Dinawan Island, Sabah, Malaysia
2018PILOTENKUCHE, Leipzig, Germany
