A selection of artist Qin Tan's new paintings from the two person exhibition, "Cache Memory," currently on view at The BLANC in New York City and also featuring work by Shangkai Kevin Yu, curated by Leo Yuan.

Qin Tan (b.1993, Beijing) is a contemporary painter based in New York, USA. Tan’s work explores the intersections of technology, consciousness, and myth in the modern human condition. Her paintings often depict surreal landscapes inhabited by yellow stick figures and anthropomorphic tools, symbols that move between the digital and the physical, the real and the imagined. Tan’s paintings invite quiet reflection on what it means to exist and feel in an increasingly virtual world.

Tan received her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2015. Her work has been exhibited internationally at venues including ART021 Contemporary Art Fair (Shanghai), Tree Art Museum (Beijing), JPS Gallery (Hong Kong and Tokyo), Moosey Gallery (London), Abri Mars (New York), COCA (Seattle), Spring Break Art Fair (New York), Sapienza University (Rome), Towson University (Maryland), Marian Cramer Arts Projects (Amsterdam), and SACI (Florence).

She has been awarded grants and residencies from Artist Trust, The Tacoma Artist Initiative Program, Moosey Residency, Delaware Contemporary, Vermont Studio Center, and Wassaic Project. She will be attending upcoming residencies at PMQ (Hong Kong) and CCA Andratx (Spain).