Laurens Tan (1950) is an Australian sculptor and transdisciplinary artist. Born 1950 in Den Haag, Holland, Laurens migrated to Australia with his parents in 1962, where he still resides and works. His work links sculpture, architectural and animated narrative space, graphics, industrial design, video and music, his key tool is 3D.

Tan’s current and recent work considers shifts in cultural identity, language, customs and he is most interested in how design & culture connect.

Tan’s work has been curated in survey exhibitions at the University of Chicago, Beijing Center (2014-15), Asian Landmark, Iberia Center of Contemporary Art (2011), Fat Art, Today Art Museum (2010), PKM Gallery (2008) in Beijing, China Code (solo retrospective) at the Melvin Gallery, South Florida College, Lakeland Fl. (2013), and previously at the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art, Houston Museum of Art, USA, the Shizuoka Prefectural Art Museum, Japan and at the Australian National Gallery, the Art Galleries of New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland, Western Australia, Tasmania and the Sydney Powerhouse Museum in Australia.

He was awarded Australia China Council Artist-in-Residence in Beijing (2006 & 2007), and more recently also in Beijing: Beijing Changnanyuan Ceramics Company (2014) and the Australia China Art Foundation (2014) and previously at the Banff Centre, Alberta Canada, the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, the Queensland University Art Museum.

Lives and works Beijing studio- 318 Art Garden, Hegezhuang since 2009. Lives and works in his Las Vegas studio since 2012.

(Biography: Artist's website.)