Henry Tan is Thai artist based in Bangkok, He is co-founder of Tentacles Art Space and a member of Freaklab, Thailand and metaPhorest, Japan
Henry explores the concept of LIFE and SIMULATION through the investigation of technologies such as synthetic biology, mixed reality, brain stimulation and artificial intelligence. How’s life adapt and negotiate with the changing environment such as climate, geopolitics and geoeconomics.
Henry worked on the Lunartic Dream project with Fablab Hamamatsu and Kornkarn Rungsawang, which tells stories about how life began on the Moon, how synthetic biology helped terraform the princess’s memory, and how life is celebrated with microbial and vaginal dance.
In the Young Eel project, Henry combines lab-grown meat, brainwave sound, and light to stimulate sleepers and transfer consciousness and memories into cloned bodies, raising questions about aging society and “environmental” concerns for human and eel populations.
2021
Selected Projects / Exhibitions
2021
Dance Offering Chang Theatre, Bangkok
Lunartic Dream Base Playhouse Samyan,, Bangkok
2020
Short Circuit Bangkok Hamamatsu Kamoe Art Center – Hamamatsu City, Japan
Pearl of Lunar International Space Station (ISS)– In collaboration with Freaklab, Thailand, Synchrotron light research institute, Space Exploration Initiatives at MIT’s Medi Lab
2019
Young EEL Teratotera Art Festival, Mitaka, Tokyo
Song of Naga Cave ADAM, Taipei Performing Art Center, Taipei
Merchants Trinity Colomboscope festival 2019, Srilanka
2018
What it meant to me will eventually be a memory Banyan Commune, Times Musuem, Guangzhou, China
2017
AnonymÆssage TuaTiuTiann Festival, Taipei Contemporary Art Center
AnonymÆssage Tokyo Performing Art Meeting, BankArtNYK, Yokohama
2016
AnonymÆssage Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Halo Life Muse 365, Baannorg Collaborative Art and Culture, Nongpho, Ratchaburi, Thailand
2015
Autopilot project Bangkok Art and Cultural Center,Thailand Curated by Pichaya Suphavanij
Money Faketory Bangkok Art and Cultural Center, Thailand Curated by Pichaya Suphavanij
2014
Money Faketory Kuandu Biennial, Kuandu Museum of Fine Art, Taipei, Taiwan, Curated by Wu DarKuen
Forever and Ever Ver Gallery, Hotel Art Fair 2014
Nuovo Cinema Masaccio San Giovanni Valdarno Arezzo, Florence, Italy Curated by Pier Luigi Tazzi
Radiation Chula University Art Center, Curated by Brian Curtin
2013
Spatial Experiment H Project Space, H Gallery Bangkok
2012
Radiation D.A.G.C Gallery, Manila, Philippines,
Along the Fence Openspace Bae, Busan, South Korea
2011
Aiya Aiya Aiya, Chongqing youth art biennale, Chongqing,China
You gotta be kiddin’ me BKKARTHOUSE Bangkok
2010
Another Side Lalanta gallery Bangkok
2008
Love-Death Whitespace Gallery Bangkok
Twins KaosBangkok
Publication
2020 Research on BioArts and DIYBio in Japan
Grant
2019 Slimemold Exchange Connecting Through BioArts, The British Councils
Fellowship
2020 Japan Foundation Asia Center 2019 hosted by metaPhorest Tokyo, Japan
Residency
2019 Ongoing Art Center Tokyo, Japan
2018 LuxeLake A4 Art Museum Chengdu, China
2018 Biocamp Tokyo, Japan
2017 Guangdong Times Musuem Guangzhou, China
2017 Asia Discover Asia Meeting for Performance Arts Taipei Performing Art Center
2016 Rockbund Art Museum Shanghai, China
2015 Serrum Jakarta, Indonesia
2012 Openspace Bae Busan, South Korea
Curation
2018 Artist Lab Asia Discovers Asia Meeting for Performance Arts, Taipei Performing Art Center
2017 Mutual Unknown National Gallery, Jakarta Indonesia
Artist Talk
2021
Memoir of Unagi BioArts Sea, Taiwan
Animism and Virtual Reality Fabcafe, Bangkok
Art & Space Exploration Bangkok International Performing Art Meeting
Synthetic Biology & Art Interdisciplinarty department,Chiangmai Univerisity
Art & Space Exploration World Space Week Thailand
Art & Space Technology Department of Fine Arts, Bangkok University
2018
Methodology and Principles in Curating and Facilitating Collaboration Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai China