Dr Eliza Tan
Contact
- Email: eliza.tan@kingston.ac.uk
- Location: Kingston School of Art, Knights Park
- Faculty: Kingston School of Art
- School: School of Arts
- Department: Department of Fine Art
About
Eliza Tan is an art historian specialising in contemporary art in the context of globalisation, with a particular focus on practices which grapple with a set of concerns regarding archival silences and representation; legacies of war and occupation; heritage and marginalised histories; diasporic memory and contemporary forms of colonial erasure. She holds an MA History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art and AHRC funded PhD from Kingston University for her doctoral thesis exploring the intersection of postwar memory, feminism and art activism in Japan in the 1990s through the artist Yoshiko Shimada's archive and East Asian women artists' network.
In addition to the independent curatorial projects she has organised, she has worked in various capacities with institutions including the Stanley Picker Gallery, Solomon R. Guggenheim New York, Art Forum Berlin, Singapore Art Museum and National Arts Council Singapore. Her writing has appeared in publications including the Oxford Art Journal, n.paradoxa international feminist art journal, ArtAsiaPacific and documenta 12 magazines.
Her chapter ‘Doing difficult heritage, performing diasporic memory: Yoshiko Shimada and Oh Haji's art of affective recall' is forthcoming in Routledge International Handbook of Heritage and Gender, ed. J.C Ashton, (London: Routledge, 2024).
Academic responsibilities
Lecturer (Critical and Historical Studies, BA Fine Art and Art History, Critical Issues in Fine Art)
Qualifications
- PhD (Kingston University)
- MA History of Art (Courtauld Institute of Art)
- BA History of Art and English Literature (Equal Honors)