Dr. Adrian Tan is an artist–curator whose practice examines how archives shape contemporary art’s social, spatial, and institutional life. His work investigates the ways histories are constructed, forgotten, and reactivated, and how artistic practices can reframe public memory through dialogue, collaboration, and site-responsive forms. Working between research and artistic production, Tan reimagines the archive as a generative space for making, not merely a repository of the past.

His curatorial projects focus on the presence of contemporary art in public space, independent initiatives, and archival environments, often foregrounding processes of activation, annotation, and re-reading.