Jay Tan

Jay Tan is an artist and educator based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. They combine everyday materials with recontextualised personal and pop cultural references to make sculptures and installations that feature figurines, low-res video and other moving parts. This decorative vernacular they think of as Aesthetic Rubble is used to process the feelings that arise as they try to learn about large systems of knowledge like Chinese religious practices or macroeconomics. 

They have shown work at Tale of A Tub, Rotterdam; Hartwig Art Foundation, Amsterdam; Tent, Rotterdam; the CACC, Paris; Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw; Ellen de Bruijne Projects and Gallerie van Gelder, Amsterdam; Futura, Prague; Kunstverein, Amsterdam; Vleeshal, Middleburg; the CAC, Vilnius; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Hollybush Gardens, London; Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam and RongWrong, Amsterdam.