born Manila, Philippines 1969
- EDUCATION
- MFA California Institute of the Arts
- BFA New York University
- SOLO EXHIBITIONS
- 2015 Expedition Journals: United States of America, Vol. 1, Civilian Art Projects, DC
- 2013 An Excerpt from the Ongoing Anthology of Abandoned Photographs, Civilian Art Projects, DC
- 2011 Noelle Tan, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
- 2010 The American Project: Utopia, Civilian Art Projects, Washington, DC
- 2010 Noelle Tan: PhotographsSchmucker Art Gallery, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA
- 2009 Drawings, Empty Quarter Gallery, Dubai
- 2009 Sometime yesterday, Civilian Art Projects, Washington, DC
- 2008 Noelle Tan, Silverlens Gallery, Manila, Philippines
- 2007 from here to the Salton Sea, Civilian Art Projects, Washington DC
- 2006 Noelle K. Tan, Project 4 Gallery, Washington, DC
- 2005 Latent, DCAC, Washington, DC
- 2004 Drawing, School 33, Baltimore, MD
- 2004 Tracing the Invisible, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY
- 2002 Untitled, Creative Artists Agency, Beverly Hills, CA
- GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- 2014 State of the Art, Crystal Bridges Museum, Bentonville, AR
- 2009 Isolation, Carroll Square Gallery, Washington, DC
- 2008 Screen Print TODAY, Atheneum, Alexandria, VA
- 2008 A Fine Line, Ninth Street Lobby, Washington, DC
- 2008 Site/Insight: People and Places, Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, DC
- 2008 Mapping Correspondence: Mail Art in the 21st Century, Center for the Book Arts, New York, NY
- 2007 Currents: Recent Acquisitions, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
- 2007 10 Curators 10 Photographers, Silverstein Photography, New York, NY
- 2006 Passing Through, Settling In, The Rubin Center, University of Texas at El Paso, TX
- 2006 Dear Diary: The Autobiographical Comic, Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, Athens, GA
- 2006 Made in Woodstock III, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY
- 2004 Memory, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS
- 2003 Fresh Tracks 03, George J. Doizaki Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- 2003 Group Photography Exhibition, Chambers Fine Art, New York, NY
- 2003 Close Calls, Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
- 2002 Contrary Equilibriums, Asian American Arts Centre, New York, NY
- 2002 American Photography, Rockefeller Arts Center, Fredonia, NY
- 2002 AsianLens, Chambers Fine Art, New York, NY
- 2001 M.I.L.K Exhibition, Vanderbilt Hall, Grand Central Terminal, New York, NY
- 2000 Woman House, Flatbed Galleries, Austin, TX
- 2000 She Took to Her Bed, Gallery Lombardi, Austin, TX
- 2000 Explicit Part 2, Kougeas Gallery, Boston, MA
- 2000 Chasing The Ideal, Moreau Galleries, St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN
- RESIDENCIES
- 2003 July-August The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY
- SELECTED COLLECTIONS
- Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
- Asian American Arts Centre, New York, NY
- The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY
- Corcoran Gallery Of Art, Washington, DC
- Creative Artist Agency, Los Angeles, CA
- Crystal Bridges Museum, Bentonville, AR
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
- New York Public Library, New York, NY
- Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
- Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
- GRANTS
- Creative Capital 2005
