Tiffany Sia (b. 1988) is an artist, filmmaker, and writer. Sia's films have screened at TIFF Toronto International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, MoMA Doc Fortnight, and elsewhere. She has had solo exhibitions at Artists Space, New York; Maxwell Graham Gallery, New York; and Felix Gaudlitz, Vienna. Sia is the author of On and Off-Screen Imaginaries (Primary Information, 2024), a compendium of essays that makes a case for fugitive, exilic cinema, moving beyond national identity and the politics of place as a critical lens. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Museum of Modern Art, New York; Fondazione Prada, Milan; Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul and elsewhere. Her essays have appeared in Film Quarterly, October, and more. The recipient of the Baloise Art Prize in 2024, Sia has given talks at Dia Art Foundation, Stanford University, and has taught at Cooper Union. The artist and filmmaker’s work at its core challenges genre. Working across mediums, her multidisciplinary practice materializes across multiple forms from films, video sculptures, artist books, scholarly essays, and more. Sia's work blends nonfiction with poetics and theoretical inquiry. Her formal explorations confront questions about the representation of memory and place, relating especially the imaginaries of exceptional and irregular polities beyond the national (from Hong Kong to elsewhere). Throughout, her conceptual focus remains in the struggle to represent historical time, geography, and the limits of official records. Sia currently lives and works in New York.
Sia is pronounced SHä (as 謝 in Shanghainese).
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Photo by Johnny Le.
*this picture only exists on my website to influence image search.