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Roundup of news articles and posts about the exhibit. Filipino-Canadian artist J.A. Tan continues to captivate Manila’s art community with his solo exhibition Return & Remember: Places & Home at Gallery C, Conrad Manila. The show, part of the hotel’s Of Art and Wine series, runs through January 17, 2026, featuring 36 expressive paintings that…
May is Asian Heritage Month. To celebrate, the Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society is holding the ExplorASIAN Festival. One of the highlights of the festival is the Generation One Exhibit at the Vancouver Lipont Art Centre. J.A. Tan is part of a juried exhibition of Asian Canadian artists. This is the 4th year he is…
Philippine Art Critic Cid Reyes wrote “JA Tan: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” in Contemporary Art Philippines. Excerpt: “Dismissed in the past and described as the work of “disabled” artists, the artworks of autistic artists are now thrust in the limelight, being bought by serious collectors. Indeed, New York’s Museum of Modern…
J.A. Tan participated in the 3rd Annual Generation One Exhibition from May 5-16, 2012 at the International Art Gallery, 2/F International Village Mall, Vancouver, BC. The works featured in the show are by Asian-Canadian artists Here is a link to J.A. Tan’s painting as shown at the gallery.
The University of Exeter used J.A. Tan’s artwork together with other artists on the spectrum to showcase the value of alternative thinking demonstrating how neurodiverse individuals can — and do — communicate in visual rather than verbal ways.” The University’s research team is based at Egenis, part of the University of Exeter in the UK….
The Art of J.A. Tan’s painting “Picasso Inspiration” was used as the book cover of author Dr. Ginny Russell’s “The Rise of Autism: Risk and Resistance in the Age of Diagnosis.” It is available on Amazon. Dr. Russell is a researcher at the University of Exeter Medical School & College of Social Science. She is…