Tan Tan, born in Beijing in 1990, currently lives and works in Beijing. She graduated from the Printmaking Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts and the Book Arts program at Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London, and now teaches in the Printmaking Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts.

Tan Tan never creates imaginary images out of thin air, because in her view, imaginary things are all logical and predictable; only the unknown existing in the real world is more astonishing. She has been observing the real world, but the things themselves are unimportant—things in her eyes are pure forms, and form is where her interest lies.