Lisa 
Tan

Reading Lewis Hyde
2024
single-channel video
24 minutes

Promise or Threat
2023
Site-specific construction in wood and carpet for Accelerator. Based on Fig. 9 in Migraine (2012) by Oliver Sacks.



Pa
2023
Custom-made signage in acrylic and LED light 9 individual characters in total



Dodge and Burn
2023-2021
two-channel video installation with a single-channel video version


Waiting Room of a Psychologist and a Neurologist
2019-2023
Pigment print on acid free cotton paper in artist’s frame



The Basque Language in the Dictionary
2021
Diptych
Pigment print on acid free cotton paper in frame

The English Language in the Dictionary (wallpaper version)
2021
Wall paper

The Norwegian Language in the Dictionary
2025
Diptych
Pigment print on acid free cotton paper in frame


Little Petra
2021
Little Petra chair designed by Viggo Boesen and produced by & Tradition, brochure printed on paper (unlimited copies), brochure holder in oiled oak and brass, platform



My Pictures of You
2017-2019
HD video with sound
24 minutes
Variable installation



Other Artists
2019
Text, postcards, postcard displays, renovation of public accessible toilets
Site specific work for Myntgata 2, Oslo for osloBIENNALEN First Edition



Sunsets,
Notes From Underground,
Waves
The concept of the liminal permeates the videos in this series: drifting between day and night, above and below ground, land and sea. Each piece narrates an engagement with an enigmatic writer (Clarice Lispector, Susan Sontag, and Virginia Woolf), but not unlike any conversation, seemingly inconsequential things pop-up and take hold. A phone call interrupts, a stranger asks a question, translations are needed, and the sun starts to set. In different ways each video illuminates creative life and ponders how to exist with others given the sharply angled urgencies of our time. For instance, in Waves, Lisa Tan plays off of Woolf’s experimental novel, The Waves, filming and writing as a way to grasp distances and to try to make some sense of material reality in the digital age.

Waves
2014-2015
HD video with sound
19 minutes 23 seconds
Variable installation


Notes From Underground
2013
HD video with sound
23 minutes 45 seconds
Variable installation


Sunsets
2012
HD video, sound
Variable installation
22 minutes 30 seconds



Letters From Dr. Bamberger
2001-2012
Annual post-physical letters
9 in total
Variable installation


In Search of the Forgotten, Letters from Mme de Forget to Eugène Delacroix
2011
Archival ink-jet with chine-collé in artist's frame


Alle Worte, die sich nicht allein mit Worten beschreiben lassen (Duden, Mannheim 1970) / Bilder, die alle Worte beschreiben, die sich nicht allein mit Worten beschreiben lassen (Duden, Mannheim 1970)
2011
archival ink-jet on paper





Alter Nordfriedhof
2007-2011
Photographs in artist's frame


Seven Year Itch
2005-2011
Pencil on vellum
23 drawings in custom made box


Les Samouraïs
2010
Digital video with sound, light stands, painted wood,projector, text component revealed in variable ways
3 minutes 36 seconds, continuous loop

Recoleta
2006-­2010
40 pencil on paper frottage drawings, Cloth-covered clamshell box with ribbon

2 Americans
2010
Letterpress on paper in artist's frame

Deep Inside Inner Experience
2009
Photograph diptych in artist's frames

National Geographic
2009
Double slide projection and printed text
Variable installation

Language Barrier
2009
Digital two-channel video projection
Continuous loop, silent


Counting Words
2008
archival ink on paper and photograph

Moving a Mountain
2008
Found painting, photograph, framed text
Variable installation


The Baudelaire Itineraries
2007
Archival ink on canvas in artist's frame, photograph in artist's frame

One Night Stand (Paris)
2006
Single channel video projection 22 minutes 11 seconds, silent

Books
2006
Digital c-print in artist's frame
(the series is informally referred to as Books and eachphotograph has its own distinct title)


The Indolent Leopard
2006
A cocktail consisting of 1 1/2 oz cognac, 1 oz lemon juice, 1 tsp sugar, 6 oz champagne, 1 cantaloupe ball in a champagne flute


Broken Baccarat
2006
Lead crystal glass, digital c-print, acrylic, and lacquer


The Garden of Earthly Delights
2004
Photograph in artist's frame


A Kiss for Fredrik Nilsen
2004-05
Color-aid paper, lipstick, piezo print, photographs


Ellsworth Kelly
2004
Engraved Card, Acrylic and Painted Wood


Magazine Portraits for Friends
ongoing
C-print


Wall Treatments
2001
White paint and wood