Tiffany Sia

Adjunct Instructor

Tiffany Sia is an artist, filmmaker and writer. 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 New York Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, MoMA Doc Fortnight, Flaherty Film Seminar and elsewhere. Sia 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, Artforum, LUX Moving Image and elsewhere. Inpatient Press published her chapbook Salty Wet in 2019, and Speculative Place published its sequel Too Salty Too Wet in 2020. Her first collection of essays On and Off-Screen Imaginaries was published in 2024 by Primary Information.

Tiffany Sia. The Sojourn, 2023. 32 mins

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