Education
2000 Pass with Distinction in Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) / LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore.
1999 Diploma in Visual Arts (Painting), LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore.
Selected Exhibitions / Activities
ISEA (Orai) 2002: International Showcase of Electronic Art, Nagoya, Japan, 2002.
180KG, an exhibition of Singaporean artists exploring the aesthetic possibilities of traveling exhibitions, Cemeti Art House, Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia, 2002.
Nokia Singapore Art 2001, a biennial visual arts festival of contemporary Singapore art, Singapore Art Museum (SAM) and Hilton International Singapore, Singapore,
2001 - 2002.
Open Ends, a documentation exhibition of performance art in Singapore, The Substation Gallery, The Substation, Singapore, 2001.
Project 2: Too2, exhibition of works by full-time and part-time staff from the School of Fine Arts, Earl Lu Gallery, LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore, 2001.
Maintenance Performance (Women @ Work Forum), in celebration of International Women's Day (collaboration with Faith Wilding), Revenue House, Singapore, 2001.
Women Beyond Borders (Singapore), a cross cultural project connecting women from 36 countries around the world (curated section), Sculpture Square, Singapore, 2001.
AWAREday, open-house performance at AWARE, Association of Women for Action and Research, Dover Crescent, Singapore, 2000.
Tracking Time, installation artist (Collaboration) for Doppio-Parallelo, Singapore Arts Festival 2000, Clifford Pier, Singapore, 2000.
Art in Alternative Spaces: Space C, Site-Specific Contemporary Art Exhibition, Raffles City Shopping Centre, Singapore, 2000.
Panelist, International conference on feminist activism and cyberculture organized by Old Boys Network (OBN): very Cyberfeminist International, Hamburg, Germany, 2001.
Speaker on “Installation Art”, series of public talks: Contemporary Art and Culture Talk, LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore, 2001.
Panelist, Women, Art & Community (third session), The Substation, Singapore, 2001.
Speaker on topic of “Performance Art”, series of public talks on contemporary art: Who’s Afraid of Contemporary Art, Singapore Art Museum (SAM), Singapore, 2000.
Panelist and Artist, Feminist Art workshop, exhibition and symposium: A Self of One’s Own, BA Gallery, LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore, 1999.
Awards
New Media Art Fund, National Arts Council (NAC), Singapore, 2002.
Artist-in-Residence, Cyberarts Initiative, University Scholars Programme, National University of Singapore (NUS), 2001 - 2002.
RMIT Outstanding Achievement Award for a student in the Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art), Singapore, 2000.
Lee Foundation Scholarship, Singapore, 1999.
Local Arts Bursary, National Arts Council (NAC), Singapore, 1997 and 1998.
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About the artist / Artist's Statement
Margaret Tan is a practicing artist working with a wide range of media. She was the recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Award (RMIT) in her Bachelor of Fine Arts Programme and became one of the first Artist-in-Residence with the Cyberarts and Cyberculture Research Initiative, University Scholars Programme, National University of Singapore. Working from a feminist perspective, she is interested in the intersections of body with space, technology and culture, in particular with issues of embodiment and identity.