Bio
Betty C Fan is currently based in London, reflects upon her non-definitive cultural story through her sensory experience and everyday negotiations as potential parallels for comprehending cultural fluidity on a broader scale.
Having traversed Taipei, Hong Kong, and Los Angeles during childhood, and later in New York City, Fan developed a sensitivity towards everyday sound and spatial impact. She uses architectural elements and sound to experience a life transcending clear cultural category, to investigate familiar echoes amid foreign surroundings. In her practice, she plays with sculpture, spatial, sound, and performance and uses methods informed by her architectural background and classical music training. She begins each work by modeling environments digitally and composing piano pieces, laying the structural skeletons for sculpture and performance development.
Education
Royal College of Art - London, Master, Sculpture
Columbia University - NYC, Master, Urban Design & Architecture
Pratt Institute - NYC, Bachelor of Architecture
Exhibition
On the Membrane, Shake Gallery, London, 2024
Festus: SCULPT, LIFT studio, London, 2024
No Man’s Land, Royal College of Art, Non-academic group show, Dyson Gallery, London, 2023
It Came From the Lagoon, Betsy Gallery Ox-bow, Saugatuck MI, 2022
Last Wet Day, Print Shop, Saugatuck MI, 2022
Packing Light, Ohklahomo, Chicago IL, 2022
Made In Hong Kong. Art Central Hong Kong, Convention & Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong, 2022
Artist Residencies
Ox-bow Artist Residency, Longform, Saugatuck MI, Fall 2022
Award
Royal college of Art X Pokemon Foundation Scholar, London 2023
Talks
deTour 2021, Use(fu)less - Sustaining Community Heritage, PMQ, Hong Kong, 2021
Professional Architecture Experience
Studio BFan: Founder | Architecture & interior design services, pivoted into an art studio practice as of April 2021
UNStudio: Hong Kong, Designer | Projects: Lyric Theater, West Kowloon Cultural District
OMA: New York, USA, Designer | Projects: Park Grove Miami Interior Amenities | Mori 11B Commercial Building Development, Tokyo Japan
Selected Architecture Works + Awards
Lyric Theatre Complex, Hong Kong, UNStudio, 2018
Park Grove Luxury Residential Miami, Miami FL, OMA, 2018
Foam Art Installation, New York City, Collaboration with The New Museum & Storefront for Art & Architecture, 2015
Social Design Project, First Prize, Think Space Competition Environment Theme: Subtraction 2014, awarded by a think tank organization in Zagreb, Croatia
Lucille Smyser Lowenfish Memorial Prize, Columbia University