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