SIAN FAN
1991
EDUCATION
2018-2020
Central Saint Martins, MA Fine Art, Distinction
2011-2014
The University of Brighton, BA Performance & Visual Art Dance, 1st Class with Hons
SOLO & DUO SHOWS
2026 (Upcoming)
Design Trust Fellowship Commission, V&A East Storehouse, London, UK
2026
False Idol, Somerset House, London, UK
2025
Lure, Gazelli Art House, London, UK
Deity, CoOc, London, UK
2024
Another Self, Night Cafe Gallery, London, UK
2022
My Garden, My Sanctuary, FACT, Liverpool, UK
Unfurling: Kate Bickmore ft. Sian Fan, Annka Kultys Gallery, London, UK
Forecast22, Chelmsford Museum, Chelmsford, UK
2021
Remedy, New Covent Garden Market, London, UK
Cyborgian Bodies, Virginia Bianchi Gallery @ Biennale dell'immagine, Chiasso, Switzerland
Current, Essex Cultural Diversity Project, Chelmsford, UK
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2027 (Upcoming)
WONDER: Why We Believe in Magic, Somerset House, London, UK
2026 (Upcoming)
Dark Botanica, Burlington City Arts, Vermont, USA
MØRNING X APOC, Hard for Hardware, London, UK
2026
NAE Open, New Art Exchange, Nottingham, UK
New Rituals [for the End of the World], HEK, Basel, Switzerland
Edify AiR, Somerset House, London, UK
2025
PatchLab Festival, Potockich Palace Gallery, Kraków, Poland
Voyager 2000, Firstsite, Colchester, UK
CUTE, Kunsthal, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Hydromancy, Sainsbury Centre, Norwich, UK
OOTFest25 (UN)SEEN, Riverside Studios, London, UK
Super Cool Colour Showcase, Young Space X Bleach London, London, UK
Softer Digital Futures, Softer, London, UK
Spring Returns to the Earth 春回大地, Yi Crafts, Beijing, China
2024
Wild Digits, V&A, London, UK
Digital Body Festival, Hackney Bridge, London, UK
Glimmers, Art Exchange, Colchester, UK
Urban Oasis, Middle Eight, London, UK
Art Tech Play Live, Dance East, Ipswich, UK
Generic Corporate Event, Kawaii Agency, London, UK
Mutek Barcelona, Antiga Fàbrica Estrella Damm, Barcelona, Spain
CUTE, Somerset House, London, UK
2023
The Lotus Way - CMCI Winter Festival, Somerset House, London UK
Art Tech Play: Live, Collusion X Norwich Theatre, Norwich, UK
Speculative Sinofuturisms, The Wrong Biennale, Online
Digital Design Weekend, V&A Museum, London, UK
Gather, ESEA Sisters X Camden Chinese Community Centre, London, UK
Urban Screens, Sydney, Australia
CyFer, Royal Holloway Picture Gallery, London, UK
Diasporas Now, Reference Point 180 The Strand, London UK
DocAviv XR, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Fest on Fest, Firstsite, Colchester, UK
Lucky Number 8, Bomb Factory Marylebone, London, UK
Daata, KOKO Camden, London, UK
2022
CADAF Art Fair, New York, USA
Distortions & Dissonance, Where's the Frame?, London, UK
Digital Design Weekend, V&A Museum, London, UK
I am surrounded by me, Off Site Project X Distant Gallery, Online
Women of the World, Infinite Objects x Nowhere Gallery @ NFT NYC, New York, USA
Sex Re:Boot, Iklectik, London, UK
Web 3.0 Aesthetics: In the Future Post-Hype of the NFTs, Annka Kultys X LaCollection, Annka Kultys Gallery, London, UK & Online
Friday Lates, V&A Museum, London, UK
V&A Performance Festival 2022, V&A Museum, London, UK
LDN 2DAY, Where's The Frame, Online
Kammerflimmern, Heizhaus X ArtSect Gallery, Nuremberg, Germany
2021
Specter: It is always nighttime in the Metaverse, The Wrong Biennale, Online
#The_Disruptive_M.E, The Wrong Biennale, Online
Agora: The Sublime, The Wrong Biennale. Online
Creeper's luncheon, Deformal X Mock Jungle, Bologna, Italy
Finally: Central Saint Martins Graduate Show, Ugly Duck, London, UK
Staring and Morphing, The Minories, Colchester, UK
Served, Sarabande Foundation, London, UK
Digital Art Month, CADAF, Paris, France
Corpus Mentis, The Vov X Sarabande Foundation, Online
Arte na Quarentena, Mostra Museu, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Digital Realness, Site Gallery, Online
Maratona di Visione, Virginia Bianchi Gallery, Online
2020
House of Bandits, Sarabande Foundation @ Burberry, London, UK
Digital Art Month, CADAF, Miami, USA
Artist Showcase Program, Urban Screens, Sydney, Australia
Digital Art Month, CADAF, New York, USA
May Fair Art Weekend: Showreel, The May Fair Hotel, London, UK
Off-site: Designing at a Distance, London Design Festival, Granary Square, London, UK
Graduate Showcase, Central Saint Martins, Online
Do Knot With 'Er', Lux, Online
15, Online Performance Art Festival, Online
Becomings, APT Gallery, London, UK
Sale, Tate Exchange, Tate Modern, London, UK
2019
Creative Lab, Arcade East, London, UK
STORYHACK, British Council, Tirana, Albania
Lives of Net Art, Tate Modern, London, UK
Vanishing Point: The Curation and Preservation of Virtual Reality, Central Saint Martins, London, UK
We Are Here We Are, Apiary Studios, London, UK
Movement, Tate Exchange, Tate Modern, London, UK
RESIDENCIES
2026
Somerset House Studios Artist Residency cont.
2025
GAZELL.iO Residency
Somerset House Studios Artist Residency cont.
2024
Edify Kings College Artist Residency
Somerset House Studios Artist Residency cont.
2023
Collusion Art Tech Play Cohort 3
Somerset House Studios Artist Residency
2022
V&A Digital Wonderlands Residency cont.
2021
V&A Digital Wonderlands Residency
Facebook Oculus Quill Residency
Goldsmiths InteractML VR Residency
2020
Sarabande Foundation Studio Artist Residency
Social Convention LABS Residency
2019
Arcade East Creative Lab
AWARDS & COMMISSIONS
2026
Design Trust X V&A East Fellowship
2025
Bleach London Super Cool Colour Fund (Finalist)
Freelands Foundation Artist Bursary
2024
Art Exchange Commission
Creative Lab Commission
2023
Somerset House Cute Commission
The Arts Foundation Futures Award Nomination
2022
Kinetic Art Labs Commission
Petras CyFer Commission
2021
Snapping the Stiletto Commission
New Covent Garden Market Vitrine Commission
Lumen Prize (Longlist)
2020
Site Gallery Fresh Takes Commission
Essex Cultural Diversity Projects: Essex 2020 Commission
Artsthread X ID Global Design Graduate Show Digital Arts Winner
Lumen Prize (Longlist)
Signals Communication in Times of Crisis Commission
MullenLowe Nova Award Nomination
Phoenix Idle Web Commission
Firstsite Collectors Award
2019
BBC New Creatives Commission
The UAL Mona Hatoum Scholarship
TALKS, LECTURES & WORKSHOPS
2026
The Human and the Machine, Pictoplasm, Norwich University of the Arts, Norwich, UK
2025
Technology, Mysticism & Spirituality - Olivia Ema, Sian Fan and Auriea Harvey in conversation with Paul Luckraft, Arebyte
Glitching Rituals: In Conversation, CoOc
Visiting Mentor, University of the Arts London
Visiting Mentor - Animation & VFX BA Course, Norwich University of the Arts
In Conversation: Sian Fan, Kate Fenterstock & Aziza Kadyri, CoOc
Seeping Spaces: Expanding New Media, IGA Game Studio Beijing
2024
Visiting Lecturer, Camberwell College of Arts
Pop up Performance Workshop: I am the Camera, V&A Museum,
Deeper Digital Experiences, Contemporary Ritual and Participatory Events around Grief and Remembrance, Essex University
Visiting Lecturer, Norwich University of the Arts
DigitALL: Inclusion in the Digital Era, MUTEK Barcelona
Conversas: Who’s Missing In This Room?, FEZIHAUS
Visiting Lecturer, Suffolk New College
Visiting Lecturer, London College of Fashion
Upgrade Yourself, Somerset House
Making Art with Tech, Towngate Theatre
2023
How to create interdisciplinary art in the digital age, MUTEK Buenos Aires
Digital Technology, Art & Storytelling, Chelmsford Museum
What the T*ch? Panel, Cambridge Junction
Visiting Lecturer, London College of Fashion
2022
Gaming in Art, FACT Liverpool
The Home Uploaded, Brompton Design District x Disegno
2021
Spotlight on... Digital Wonderlands Resident - Secondary Webinar, V&A Museum
Discovering Digital Dimensions, Native Creatives
Creative Careers Panel, Whitechapel Gallery
Site Salons: Sian Fan X The White Pube, Site Gallery
Phantom Futures: Performing Creative Technologies, Anglia Ruskin University
Stand Up for Diversity, Essex Cultural Diversity Project
In Conversation: Sian Fan and Victoria Lucas discuss Phantom, Site Gallery
Striking the dis_cord: Recoding feminisms across digital art practice Panel, Goldsmith Computer Arts and Lumen Art Projects
Working Across Physical and Digital, Art // Tech // Play, DanceEast X Collusion
2020
Curator's Radar Podcast, Agora Digital
Co-creation and Collaboration in Digital Art Panel, Social Convention