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Professor Tan has portrayed his inventive and autodidactic energy as an artist, teacher, and researcher for three decades while residing in China, Canada, Singapore, and the U.S.A.
He has taught art and animation for over a decade across all college levels internationally. Currently, he is a professor of art at Rutgers University. In addition, he has worked as an art director, animator, graphic designer, and executive art editor in local and board industries over the past decades. His specialties are concentrated specifically on fine-arts-animation through the use of Softimage.
His works of art have been exhibited nationally and internationally in both solo and group shows, and have received numerous awards. His exhibitions have been displayed at Art Gallery, SIGGRAPH, iV04-06, Noyes Museum of Art, Shanghai DuoLun Museum of Modern Art, National Center for Computer Animation in UK, Centre D’Art Contemporaine in Montreal, Vancouver Art Gallery, Singapore Art Museum, and National Art Museum in China, amongst others.
In the year 2004, Tan’s art research focused mainly on the merge of the relationship between digital and primitive art, which was awarded “Best of Show” at the iDEAa, the Award of Excellence by International Digital IV, a Gold medal from the Da Vinci Art Alliance, the Award of Excellence by Global Media Competition from Gallery International, and First Place from 5th Digital Art and Computer Animation Competition by Beecher Center for Art and Technology.
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