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
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October 29 – November 27, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, October, 7-9pm
Part 1 of an ambitious black and white photography project by this CalArts graduate including 36 images documenting road trips taken by the artist across the country over the past several years. Images capture cultural markers of American history, documenting the highest and lowest of the collective American dream.