Tiffany Sia
Media
CV
Education
2010
Bard College, BA Film Studies and Asian Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, US
2009
Qingdao University, Intensive Language Studies Summer Program, Qingdao, CN
Awards, Scholarships and Fellowships
2024
Baloise Art Prize 2024
2021
George C. Lin Emerging Filmmaker Award, San Diego Asian Film Festival
Line of Sight Fellowship
2009
Fulbright-Hays Scholarship
Solo exhibitions
2024
Art Basel Statements, w. FELIX GAUDLITZ, Basel, CH
Technical Difficulties, Maxwell Graham, New York, US
2023
12.23 Tiffany Sia, ahj.pm, Bielefeld, DE
2022
Minor Landscapes, FELIX GAUDLITZ, Vienna, AT
2021
Slippery When Wet, Artists Space, New York City, NY, US
Group exhibitions
2024
I am standing in the middle of the Information Highway and laughing, Curated by Raha Raissnia with Martin Germann, Argo Factory, Tehran, IR
Weather or not, curated by Ileana Nomikos Drinovan and Fabian Schöneich, Santozeum, Santorini, GR
Cameron Rowland, Tiffany Sia, Christopher Williams, Maxwell Graham, New York, US
2023
Paraventi: Folding screens from the 17th to 21st centuries, Fondazione Prada, Milan, IT
Signals: How Video Transformed The World, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY, US
Everybody Talks About the Weather, curated by Dieter Roelstraete, Ca’ Corner della Regina, Fondazione Prada, Venezia, IT
Mediums and Messengers, Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island College, RI, US
2022
Scoring the Words, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, KR (Catalogue)
CLOSER, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, DE
Every lie has an audience, co-organized by Attilia Fattori Franchini and Felix Gaudlitz, Marsèll, Milan, IT
2021
Death of Closeness, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen, NO
Poet Slash Artist, Kunsthal Charlottenborg 1st Biennale, Copenhagen, DK
自我, 肖像 Self, as Portrait, Artists’ Book Library, Tai Kwun Contemporary Art, Hong Kong, S.A.R.
Play and Loop III, Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong, S.A.R.
Artist’s response to Yuri Pattison’s “The engine.”, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, IR
Poet Slash Artist, Manchester International Festival, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and
Lemn Sissay, Manchester, UK
Hellscrape (Collaboration with Zheng Mahler), Shedhalle, Zurich, CH
2020
The Life Instinct, Art at a Time Like This, curated by Diya Vij, New York City, NY, USA
Diaries, Notes and other Recordings. Low-Tech films about the Everyday, Cabaret Voltaire, curated by Jiajia Zhang, Zurich, CH
Never Rest/Unrest: Screening with Tiffany Sia, Chen’s [Remote], New York City, NY, USA + Online
2019
Better Homes and Better Gardens, Chen’s, New York City, NY, USA
afterbefore: images and sounds from Hong Kong, Chinatown Soup, New York City, NY, USA
Filmography
2024
A Child Already Knows (short)
2023
The Sojourn (short)
2022
What Rules The Invisible (short)
2021
Do Not Circulate (short)
A Road Movie is Impossible in Hong Kong (episodic shorts)
SEA – SHIPPING – SUN (short)
2020
Never Rest/Unrest (short)
Film festivals
2024
TIFF – Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto, CA
Open City Documentary Festival, Close-Up Cinema London, London, UK
2022
New York Film Festival, New York City, NY, USA
Open City Documentary Festival, Close-Up Cinema London, London, UK
2021
San Diego Asian Film Festival, San Diego, CA, USA
Double Exposure Film Festival, Online
Linea d’Ombra Festival, Salerno, IT
New York Film Festival, New York City, NY, USA
2020
Prismatic Ground (Presented by Maysles Documentary Center and Screen Slate), Online
MoMA Documentary Fortnight, New York City, NY, USA
Berwick Film and Arts Festival, Berwick-Upon-Tweed, UK
Publications
2024
On and Off-Screen Imaginaries, Primary Information
2021
Weird Times, Text by Tiffany Sia and Images by Yuri Pattison, Douglas Hyde Gallery
Too Salty Too Wet 更咸更濕, Speculative Place Press
2019
Salty Wet 咸濕, Inpatient Press, 2019
Other published writing
2023
Tiffany Sia, Paraventi: Folding Screens from the 17th to 21st Century, Fondazione Prada
New Territories: Reconfiguring Publics in Former and New Hong Kong Cinema,Film Quarterly, UC Press
The Screen Age: Video's Past and Future. Tiffany Sia writes on the 1990 video Taiwan: The Generation After Martial Law, Artforum
Never Rest/Unrest: Emerging Time, Signals: How Video Transformed the World, The Museum of Modern Art
2022
Phantasms of Dissent: Hong Kong’s New Documentary Vernacular, Film Quarterly, UC Press
Handbook of Feelings, October, MIT Press
2021
Tiffany Sia and Sky Hopinka, Light Industry, 5 April 2021
«UNFINISHED BUSINESS»: The Films of Joshua Gen Solondz and His Residency at Speculative Place, Screen Slate, 17 October 2021
直播 Direct Broadcast, Content: A Mimetics Research Journal, 25 February 2021
And Besides, It’s True: With Paige K.B. and Tiffany Sia, Triple Canopy, 11 March 2021
2020
New Artist Focus: Tiffany Sia on George Clark, Shadows and Transmission, LUX Scotland, 23 October 2020
Lectures and Talks
2024
On and Off-Screen Imaginaries: A Conversation with Tiffany Sia and An-My Lê, Dia Chelsea (Co-organized with Primary Information and Printed Matter), New York, NY, US
Guest Lecture, The Cooper Union, New York, NY, US
2023
The Sojourn: An evening with Tiffany Sia, Screenings followed by a conversation with Jean Ma, Stanford University, Stanford, US
An Evening with Tiffany Sia, Screening of Never Rest / Unrest (2020), Do Not Circulate (2021), What Rules the Invisible (2022) and a Conversation with Aria Dean, Stuart Comer and Michelle Kuo, MoMA, NY, US
SEGUE READING SERIES: NATALIE DIAZ & TIFFANY SIA, Artist Space, New York, US
Tiffany Sia in Hong Kong Open: A project with the artist Tiffany Sia & Simon Leung, Claire Trevor School of Arts, University of California Irvine, Matthew Schumaker/ Eric Huebner Concert and Workshop, Irvine, CA, US
HOW CAN WE GATHER NOW?, Symposium co-directed by Prem Krishnamurthy & Asad Raza, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC, US
Tiffany Sia on An-My Lê, Artists on Artists Lecture Series, Dia Chelsea, New York, US
2022
Tiffany Sia: Do Not Circulate, Conversations at the Edge, School of Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Takeover: Online discussion with May Adadol Ingawanij, Ephraim Asili, Tiffany Sia, and Sriwhana Spong, e-flux – Online
Entangled Bonds: Working with Family in Documentary Film, UnionDocs, Center for Documentary Art, New York, NY
Guest Lecture, The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York, NY
티파니 샤와 출라얀논 시리폰의 대화 Artist Talk with Tiffany Sia and Chulayarnnon Siriphol, Seoul Museum of Art – Seoul, South Korea
IMU UR2: Art, Aesthetics, and Asian America Symposium (Panel on Art Activisms with Gordon Chang, Howie Chen, Nancy Hom, Arlan Huang), Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Film Comment Live: On the Critical Attitude (with Laura Poitras and Elvis Mitchell), New York Film Festival – New York, NY
Adjunct Professor, Spring 2022 Semester, Cooper Union, New York, NY
Guest Lecture, Bard College – Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Guest Lecture, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong
Marxism and Materialism presents Tiffany Sia, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Guest Lecture, Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at the New School, New York, NY
2021
Cynesposia, Anthology Film Archive, New York, NY
Two Works by Hong Kong Documentary Filmmakers, Light Industry, New York, NY
How Can We Gather Now?, Washington Project for the Arts with support from the Goethe Institute and Eaton Workshop, Washington, DC + online
Guest Lecture, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
Borobar Jagtana: Three Films by Suneil Sanzgiri, Pioneer Works x Asia Art Archive in America, New York, NY
Guest Lecture, Harvard University, Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies, Cambridge, MA
Guest Lecture, Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at the New School, New York, NY
Guest Lecture, CCS Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, NY
Guest Lecture, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Guest Lecture, Cooper Union, New York, NY
And Besides, It’s True. Screening and discussion with Paige K.B., Triple Canopy x Spectacle, New York, NY + online
Folding Horizons. soft/WALL/studs. Curated by S. Yi Yao Chao and Marcus Yee, Singapore + online
Too Salty Too Wet with Tiffany Sia. Printed Matter, New York, NY
Hong Kong Launch of Too Salty Too Wet: Tiffany Sia. Tai Kwun Contemporary Art, Hong Kong + online
AAWW Lunch. Asian American Writers’ Workshop – online
2020
更咸更濕Too Salty Too Wet [Leaked]. Printed Matter, New York, NY + Online
Salty Wet 咸濕 A reading by Tiffany Sia. Tai Kwun Contemporary Art – Hong Kong
The Forum. The Lab. Curated by Dana Beard, San Francisco, CA + online
Study Object Room: Tiffany Sia. Studio Voltaire London. Curated by Virgil B/G Taylor, London, UK + Online
Bibliography
2024
We Ate a Sheep. We Lost the Plot: Shu Lea Cheang, Lauren Cornell, and Tiffany Sia in conversation, Mousse Magazine 89, Fall 2024
On and Off-Screen Imaginaries, The Whitney Review of New Writing, July 2024
Christian, Re'al, Tiffany Sia by Re’al Christian, BOMB Magazine, July 2024
Seidel, Madeleine, Tiffany Sia Looks Off Screen, Frieze Magazine, May 2024
Packard, Cassie, Tiffany Sia’s On and Off-Screen Imaginaries, The Brooklyn Rail, May 2024
Wu, Jenny, The Long Journey Preceding Paradise: On The Sojourn and على مرمى حجر (A Stone’s Throw), Open City Texts, April 2024
Damman, Catherine Quan, Interview: Tiffany Sia on On and Off-Screen Imaginaries, Film Comment Magazine, 18 March 2024
Wu, Jenny, A New Hong Kong Cinema That Lives On: On Tiffany Sia's 'On and Off-Screen Imaginaries, Los Angeles Review of Books, 1 March, 2024
Kelly, Nolan, The Denatured Machine, 032c, 27 February, 2024
Raza, Asad, Books, Mousse Magazine, 17 January, 2024
2023
Culp, Samantha, There's an Alternative to the Infinite Scroll, WIRED, 19 September, 2023
Murphy, Benjamin O, 'A Definitional Impulse' On 'Signals: How Video Transformed The World' at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Texte Zur Kunst, September 2023
Rakes, Rachael, Weather Reports, MUBI Notebook Magazine, Issue 3, 2023
Farago, Jason, The Crossed 'Signals' of MoMA's Largest Ever Video Show, The New York Times, 6 July 2023
Bradley, Paige K, Band of Outsiders, Artforum, 17 June 2023
Wu, Jenny, The Rogue Signals of Half a Century of Video Art, ArtReview, 18 May 2023
Lukenbill, Mackenzie, An Evening with Tiffany Sia, Screen Slate, 1 May 2023
Nguyen, Minh, In the Global South, Labeling a Research Project 'Art' Can Be a Tool for Evading Censorship, Art in America, 21 March 2023
Lin, Lana, Program 8: Time Out of Mind, Millennium Film Journal, No 77, Spring 2023
Lim, Dennis, Signals: How Video Transformed the World, e-flux Criticism, March 24, 2023
Ryan, Tina Rivers: THE SCREEN AGE: VIDEO’S PAST AND FUTURE. Tina Rivers Ryan on “Signals: How Video Transformed the World”, Artforum Review, MAY 2023, VOL. 61, NO. 9.
2022
Reverse Shot, Artists discuss making experimental films after colonialism. Sky Hopinka, Tiffany Sia, and Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa, Moderated by Emily Watlington, Art in America, May 2022
Fajemisin, Olamiju, Critics' Picks on ‘Closer’ at Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Artforum, April 2022
2021
Hopinka, Sky, Top Ten: Sky Hopinka’s highlights of 2021, Artforum, December 2021
Pipolo, Tom, Social Studies, Artforum, 24 September 2021
Shellenberger, Herb, 50th New York Film Festival, ‘Currents,’ Art Agenda, 12 November 2021
Piper, Burket, Emma, Collective Records: New York Film Festival’s Currents, MUBI, 7 October, 2021
Pipolo, Tony, Social Studies: Tony Pipolo on ‘Currents’ at the 59th New York Film Festival, Artforum, 24 September 2021
Damman, Catherine, Lust, Caution: Catherine Damman on Tiffany Sia’s Slippery When Wet, Artforum, 1 June 2021
Breathing Cameras: Tiffany Sia. Tiffany Sia in Conversation with Andrea Lissoni, Mousse Magazine. May 2021
Russeth, Andrew, Expansive Thinking Sustains Hong Kong Independent Galleries, The New York Times, 21 May 2021
Cheung, Karen, Slippery When Wet: A Conversation with Tiffany Sia, MARCH, May 2021
Yim, Polly, Breathing in the Invisible: Polly Yim on Tiffany Sia at Artists Space, Text zur Kunst, April 2021
Hrdy, Marius, Modes of Resistance: Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival 2020, The Brooklyn Rail, December 2020 / January 2021
Cordingly, Sasha, Resisting the Spectacle, ART PAPERS, Spring 2021
Bovino, Emily Verla, Slippery When Wet: Tiffany Sia’s Poetry of Lived Time, Ocula, 24 February, 2021
Le, Johnny, Tiffany Sia, Purple Magazine, Spring 2021
Cheung, Karen, Belonging Nearby, SFMoMA’s Open Space, March 31, 2021
Ling, Isabel, Wielding Time and Text, Tiffany Sia Documents Hong Kong’s Resistance, Hyperallergic, 13 April 2021
Ugelvig, Jeppe, Writing a History of Hong Kong with Tears, Frieze, 3 March, 2021
Piron, Adam, Adam Piron on Storytelling and The Importance of Cultural Diversity, Art in America, 12 February 2021
2020
The Editors of ArtAsiaPacific, Editors’ Picks from Booked: Hong Kong Art Book Fair, ArtAsiaPacific, 17 January 2020
Chu, Jaime, The Shortest Distance to Empathy; Spike Art Magazine, 12 July 2020
Cheung, Ysabelle, What Happens to Writing When We Stop Pretending Anything Makes Sense?, Literary Hub, 16 March 2020
Steinhauer, Jillian, Five Accounts to Follow on Instagram Now, The New York Times, 29 July 2020
Fajemisin, Olamiju, Generating Space(s), South London Gallery, 12 November 2020
The Editors of ArtAsiaPacific, AAP’s Favorite Films and Miscellaneous Things of 2020, ArtAsiaPacific, 23 December 2020
Anderson, Shane, The Experience We Were Supposed to be Having’: ASAD RAZA on DIY
Intimacy, Édouard Glissant, and Home Cooking, 032c, 8 June 2020
Simnett, Marianna, Home Cooking: being alone together, Heichi Magazine, 16 July 2020
2019
Raicovich, Laura, In Hong Kong, Protestors Are Using Their Zines to Get Their Messages Out, Hyperallergic, 29 August 2019
Haas, Benjamin, A Polarized City, Mirrored in Its Diaspora, The Atlantic, 20 October 2019
Gu, Qianfan, Better Homes & Gardens, Artforum, September 2019
Public Collections
Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY, USA
Mudam – The Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, LU
Watson Library at the Met, New York City, NY, USA
Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong, S.A.R.
Asia Art Archive in America, New York City, NY, USA
Tai Kwun Contemporary Art, Hong Kong, S.A.R.
Knight Library at University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA
Print Collection and Spencer Collection / The New York Public Library, New York City, NY, USA
Tisch Library, Tufts University, New York City, NY, USA
Yale University Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, New Haven, CT, USA
Bard College Library, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA
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Exhibitions
News
27. 9. – 18. 10. 2024
1. 7. – 5. 8. 2024
1. 5. – 29. 6. 2024
Tiffany Sia in We need to talk about...Decolonial Memories, Group Screening, Leiden Shorts, Amsterdam, NL
9. 6. 2024
28. 3. 2024
5. 3. 2024
12. 1. – 24. 2. 2024
28. 10. 2023 – 22. 2. 2024
20. 5. – 16. 11. 2023
5. 3. – 8. 7. 2023
31. 3. – 2. 4. 2023
15. 1. – 14. 3. 2023
Tiffany Sia in Hong Kong Open: Tiffany Sia in Conversation with Simon Leung, Claire Trevor School of Arts at University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA
23. 2. 2023
17. – 30. 11. 2022
1. 9. – 20. 11. 2022
30. 9. – 16. 10. 2022
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Publications
On and Off-Screen Imaginaries by Tiffany Sia, Published by Primary Information, 2023
Too Salty Too Wet 更咸更濕, Artist book, Speculative Place Press, 2021
Weird Times, Text by Tiffany Sia and images selected by Yuri Pattison, 2021
Salty Wet 咸濕, Artist book/chapbook/zine, Inpatient Press, 2019
Press
- "We Ate a Sheep. We Lost the Plot: Shu Lea Cheang, Lauren Cornell, and Tiffany Sia in conversation", Mousse Magazine 89, Fall 2024 Print, 7. 10. 2024, PDF (208 KB)
- "On and Off-Screen Imaginaries", The Whitney Review of New Writing, July 2024 Print, PDF (121 KB)
- "Tiffany Sia by Re’al Christian, Image and text projects that create speculative planes of memory." by Re'al Christian, Bomb Magazine Print, 3. 7. 2024, PDF (936 KB)
- "Tiffany Sia Looks Off Screen", by Madeleine Seidel, Frieze Magazine Print, 23. 5. 2024, PDF (541 KB)
- "The Long Journey Preceding Paradise", by Jenny Wu, Open City Texts Print, 27. 4. 2024, PDF (4 MB)
- "Interview: Tiffany Sia on On and Off-Screen Imaginaries", by Catherina Quan Damman, Film Comment Print, 18. 3. 2024, PDF (140 KB)
- "A New Hong Kong Cinema That Lives On: On Tiffany Sia's "On and Off-Screen Imaginaries", by Jenny Wu, A Review of Books Print, 1. 3. 2024, PDF (2 MB)
- "Signals: How Video Ttransformed the World", by Dennis Lim, e-flux Critisicm Print, 23. 3. 2023, PDF (3 MB)
- "Phantasms of Dissent: Hong Kong’s New Documentary Vernacular" by Tiffany Sia, Film Quarterly, Spring 2022 Print, PDF (5 MB)
- "Handbook of Feelings" by Tiffany Sia, OCTOBER 180, Spring 2022 Print, PDF (73 KB)
- "Reverse Shot", Sky Hopinka, Tiffany Sia, and Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa Moderated by Emily Watlington, Art in America, May 2022 Print, PDF (1 MB)
- "Top Ten", Sky Hopinka’s highlights of 2021, Artforum December 2021, Print Print, PDF (3 MB)
- "Breathing Cameras", Tiffany Sia in conversation with Andrea Lissoni, Mousse Magazine 75, Spring 2021 Print, PDF (2 MB)
- "LUST, CAUTION", Catherine Damman on Tiffany Sia’s “Slippery When Wet”, Artforum, June 2021 (Print and online) Print, PDF (853 KB)
- "Writing a History of Hong Kong with Tears" by Jeppe Ugelvig and Tiffany Sia, Frieze Print, 3. 3. 2021, PDF (621 KB)
- "Breathing in the Invisible: Polly Yim on Tiffany Sia at Artists Space “, Texte zur Kunst, Online Print, 9. 4. 2021, PDF (1 MB)