Tiffany Chung

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Tiffany Chung
Born1969
Da Nang, Vietnam
NationalityVietnamese
Education
Known forCartography drawings, sculpture,video, photograph, and performance art
Websitewww.trfineart.com/artists/tiffany-chung

Tiffany Chung (born 1969) is a Vietnamese American multimedia artist based in Houston, Texas. Her work primarily consists of cartographic drawings, sculptures, videos, photographs, and theater performances. Her artistry is largely inspired by the experiences of war, such as "migration, displacement, urban progress, and transformation in relation to history and cultural memory."[1]

Early life and Education[]

Chung was born in Da Nang, Vietnam. She is considered to be part of the Vietnamese diaspora. Her family emigrated to the United States after the Vietnam War. She studied art in California earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts from California State University, Long Beach and a Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art from the University of California, Santa Barbara.[2][3] In 2000, she returned to Vietnam to establish her art practice and contribute to the growing community of contemporary artists.[2]

Career[]

Chung is best known for her "embroidered canvas maps, cartographic drawings, videos, performance work, and installations."[4] Her artwork is held in the following public art collections: Orange County Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (Fukuoka, Japan), Queensland Art Gallery (Brisbane, Australia), Singapore Art Museum, and the Sharjah Art Foundation, (Sharjah, United Arab Emirates).[5] Her solo exhibition Tiffany Chung: Vietnam, Past Is Prologue was presented at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 2019.[6]

Chung’s work often takes the form of participatory workshops in which the artist uses maps and cartography as a medium for young refugees to think about their experiences. [7]

“As refugees, some of them might have gone through horrific journeys ... To be able to be reflective and put their minds together is not an easy task. Especially if you are in a situation where you are uncertain about tomorrow, about what the future holds for you.”

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Artwork by Tiffany Chung on display at Galerie Quynh, HCMC Vietnam

Play is a photo series representing Vietnamese female students and an anomalous "Bubble Shooter" on Northern Vietnamese roads, is featured in the book, Contemporary Photography in Asia. According to the book: "Referencing images of the heroic working class found in North Vietnamese socialist propaganda paintings, the Play series explores the unlikely relationship between contemporary youth culture and socialist ideology. Play attempts to question the relevancy of past ideology within the context of new utopian visions and pop culture obsessed youths. It examines the slippages between Vietnam's wartime rhetoric and its present shift towards consumer culture."[9]

In 2011, Chung was one of 63 artists from 30 countries included in the Singapore Biennale, titled "Open House".[10] Her contribution, stored in a jar: monsoon, drowning fish, color of water, and the floating world was a mixed media-installation, "a miniature model of a floating town" based upon scenes of floating communities of the Mekong Delta and Srinagar, India, and Japan.[4]

Chung was featured in the San Francisco Museum of Art's Six Lines of Flight: Shifting Geographies in Contemporary Art, as one of several artists from six cities with "burgeoning art scenes". The "Six Lines of Flight" depicts the map of San Francisco in the year 1906. According to her, the 1906 fire in San Francisco was one of the most important events of the 20th century. A map represents not just a border for cities and various people, but a depiction of events that affect a group of people.[4] These cities reflect the expansion of art in beyond the global centers of New York City, Paris, London, or Los Angeles, and included Beirut, Lebanon, Cali; Cluj-Napoca, Ho Chi Minh City, Tangier, and San Francisco.[11]

Notable Artwork[]

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    • In 2007, Chung featured her oil and alcohol-based marker collaged drawing, as part of the exhibition, "Caution! Development in Progress", located in RMIT, Hanoi City. [12] The image layers a 2007 Seoul subway city map, Tokyo Metro map, and urban-planning map for Saigon when it became part of the French colonial empire. [13]
    • The layers consist of "abstract field of tinted lines and grids.It is an ordered cacophony of colored dashes,curves,corners, and shapes. Chung visualizes the past,the present, and the future intertwining."[13]
    • Việt Lê is an artist, writer, and curator describes Chung’s art as resembling “organic growth, perhaps mold or microorganisms growing in a Petri dish.”[13]
    • the artwork presented includes bright colors, consisting of “fungal” like seeds, represented by dots and circle drawings. Lê, describes the seeds as a story of home and personal identity. More so, the Lê , makes a connection between Chung’s use of fungal art to represent an economy and development as opportunistic yet parasitic.[13]

Selected Solo Exhibitions/Public Art Projects/ Performances [1][]

  • 2019
    • passage of time, Tyler Rollins Fine Art, New York, NY, USA. Tiffany Chung: Vietnam, Past Is Prologue, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, USA. 2018 Tiffany Chung - Thu Thiem: an archaeological project for future remembrance, Johann Jacobs Museum, Zurich, Switzerland.[2]
  • 2017
    • the unwanted population, Tyler Rollins Fine Art, New York, NY, USA.[3]
  • 2016
    • between the blank spaces of Hitachi Factories I read poetry interwoven with tales of the barbarians, famines and war sacrifices,
    • Kenpoku Art 2016, Hitachi City Museum, Ibaraki, Japan. the unwanted population – The Vietnam Exodus - Hong Kong chapter (1975- 2000), Part 1: flotsam and jetsam, Art Basel Hong Kong. 2
  • 2015
    • from the mountains to the valleys, from the deserts to the seas: journeys of historical uncertainty, CAMP/Center for Art on Migration Politics, Copenhagen, Denmark. finding one’s shadow in ruins and rubble, Tyler Rollins Fine Art, New York, NY, USA.
  • 2014
    • Tiffany Chung, Lieu-Commun, Toulouse, France.[4]
  • 2013
    • an archaeology project for future remembrance, Galerie Quynh – Downtown, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.[5]
    • the Galápagos project: on the brink of our master plans, Galerie Quynh – Main Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. [6]
    • Memories Constructed / Reconstructed, Site-specific installation at former Futaba Elementary school, organized by dB Dance Box, Kobe, Japan.[7]
  • 2012
    • TOMORROW ISN’T HERE, Tyler Rollins Fine Art, New York, NY, USA.[8]
  • 2011
    • Fukagawa Shokudo (Fukagawa Dining Room), exhibition/performance in collaboration with Off-Nibroll, Fukagawa Tokyo Modan Kan, Tokyo, Japan.
  • 2010
    • scratching the walls of memory, Tyler Rollins Fine Art, New York, NY, USA. The River Project, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney, Australia. Ascending Dragon: Contemporary Vietnamese Arts, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA, USA.
  • 2009
    • Finding Galápagos: Fish, Pigs, Youngsters, Old Folks, Men, Women and the Black Canals (Not In Any Particular Order), Galerie Christian Hosp, Berlin.
  • 2008
    • Play, Tyler Rollins Fine Art, New York, NY, USA. Enokiberry Tree in Wonderland, Episode 3: Another Day Another World, public project as part of Intrude Art & Life 366, Zendai MOMA, Shanghai, China. Enokiberry Tree in Wonderland – Episode 3: Another Day Another World, performance, Ke Center for Contemporary Arts, Shanghai, China.
  • 2006
    • Beyond Soft Air and Cotton Candy, LMan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
  • 2005
    • Famous for 15” at the Sugarless Factory, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan. Kids’ Corner, children’s playground, commissioned by Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan. Famous for 15” at the Sugarless Factory, photo studio project, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan. Soft Air and Cotton Candy, concert and performance, Fukuoka Triennale Opening Event and Asian Art Festival, Fukuoka, Japan.
  • 2003
    • Momentum, Mai’s Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
  • 1999
    • Sweet Factory, Gallery 1434, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
  • 1998
    • Looking through A Keyhole, Gallery 1434, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
  • 1997  
    • Private Realities, Gallery C, California State University, Long Beach, CA, USA.

Featured Public Collections [9][]

  1. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA.
  2. Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
  3. Herbert F. Johnson Art Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
  4. Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA, USA.
  5. Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, USA.
  6. The Ford Foundation, New York, NY, USA.
  7. Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan.
  8. Singapore Art Museum, Singapore. M+, Hong Kong.
  9. The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
  10. Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
  11. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark.
  12. Faurschou Foundation, Copenhagen, Denmark.
  13. AK Wien Kultur, Vienna, Austria.
  14. Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia

Collaborations[]

In 2007, Chung co-founded the non-profit art space Sàn Art (Ho Chi Minh City) along with Dinh Q. Lê and Tuan Andrew Nguyen and Phunam Thuc Ha of the Propeller Group.[14]

References[]

  1. ^ "Tiffany Chung - Artists". Tyler Rollins Fine Art. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Queensland Art Gallery. APT7. Brisbane, Australia: Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art. p. 100.
  3. ^ "Tiffany Chung". Sharjah Art Foundation. Sharjah Art Foundation. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b c Diquinzio, Apsara (2012). Six Lines of Flight: Shifting Geographies of Contemporary Art. University of California Press. pp. 138–141.
  5. ^ "Tiffany Chung - Biography". Artnet. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
  6. ^ "Tiffany Chung: Vietnam, Past is Prologue". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
  7. ^ Channel, Louisiana; TV, ContributorWeb (2016-09-01). "Tiffany Chung: Maps of Memory". HuffPost. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
  8. ^ Channel, Louisiana; TV, ContributorWeb (2016-09-01). "Tiffany Chung: Maps of Memory". HuffPost. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
  9. ^ Hooton, Keiko S.; Godfrey, Tony (2013). Contemporary Photography in Asia. Munich: Prestel Verlag. pp. 178–181.
  10. ^ "Singapore Biennale 2011, 29 of 63 exhibiting artists are from Asia - Art Radar". artradarjournal.com. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
  11. ^ "Six Lines of Flight: Shifting Geographies in Contemporary Art". SFMOMA. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  12. ^ "10.75ºN 106.6667ºE". www.rmit.edu.vn. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
  13. ^ Jump up to: a b c d "http://ljournal.ru/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/d-2016-154.pdf". 2016. doi:10.18411/d-2016-154. Cite journal requires |journal= (help); External link in |title= (help)
  14. ^ "The Propeller Group". Guggenheim. Archived from the original on 21 February 2015. Retrieved 6 March 2015.

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