Tiffany Sia

Tiffany Sia (b. Hong Kong, 1988) is an artist, filmmaker and writer who lives and works in New York. Sia has directed several short films, including Never Rest/ Unrest (2020), Do Not Circulate (2021) and What Rules the Invisible (2022), which have screened at TIFF Toronto International Film Festival, MoMA Doc Fortnight, New York Film Festival, Flaherty Film Seminar and elsewhere. The artist has previously had solo exhibitions at Artists Space, New York; Felix Gaudlitz, Vienna; and Maxwell Graham Gallery, New York. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Fondazione Prada, Italy; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea; Kunstverein Düsseldorf, Germany; Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Denmark; The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Ireland and elsewhere. Her essays have appeared in Film Quarterly, October and LUX Moving Image. Inpatient Press published her chapbook Salty Wet in 2019, and its artist book sequel Too Salty Too Wet was published by Speculative Place in 2020. Her first collection of essays On and Off-Screen Imaginaries was published by Primary Information in 2024. The artist and filmmaker was the recipient of the Baloise Art Prize in 2024 and the George C. Lin Emerging Filmmaker Award in 2022. She is teaching at Cooper Union this fall. Sia is interested in how material culture (particularly print, digital material and film/video) traces and enables governance, geopolitical power and perception. She is interested in how such forces play out and construct imaginaries of place, particularly exceptional polities beyond the national (from Hong Kong to elsewhere). The artist's ongoing occupation lies within the struggle to represent time, geography and the trouble of the record.

Sia is pronounced SHä (as 謝 in Shanghainese).