Tiffany Chung is globally noted for her interdisciplinary practice cultivated through rigorous research and qualitative analysis into the history, culture and topography of different locales, spanning across times and terrain. Tracing complex entanglements of social, political, economic and environmental processes entwined in landscape archaeology and historical ecology, Chung materializes her findings into cartographic works, embroideries, paintings, photographs, sculptures, videos and recently, music compositions. Her work charts the footprint of our material culture, spatial transformations, climate-related events, conflicts, forced displacement and migration. Chung’s recent and current projects look into earth’s deep times, Neolithic landscape monumentalization in Southeast Asia and Europe, and ancient global connections through the historic spice trade.

Chung’s exhibition Rise into the Atmosphere is currently on view at Dallas Museum of Art and her architectural scale model of a floating village included in Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice at Hammer Museum & 2024 Getty’s PST Art. The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction recently presented the documentation of Chung’s floating village, an adaptation recommendation for extreme flooding, alongside the 2024 Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction. Her commemorative earthwork, For the Living (2023), part of Beyond Granite: Pulling Together was installed adjacent to Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the Constitution Gardens west. In 2019, the Smithsonian American Art Museum presented her solo exhibition Tiffany Chung: Vietnam, Past Is Prologue, her most ambitious exploration of the war in Vietnam and its aftermath to date. The exhibition was reviewed in The New York Times and listed by The Art Newspaper as 2019’s most popular art exhibitions globally. The first iteration of Chung’s Syria Project was featured in the 56th Venice Biennale’s central exhibition All the World’s Futures at the Arsenale, with 40 map-based drawings that chart Syria’s ever expanding cycles of violence and refugee displacement — which was described as one of the personal but highly political highlights from the 2015 Venice Biennale.

Tiffany Chung has exhibited at museums and biennials worldwide including the 56th Venice Biennale, MoMA (NY), British Museum (UK), Nobel Peace Center (Norway), Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (Germany), Louisiana MoMA & SMK (Denmark), Centre de Cultura Conteporània de Barcelona (Spain), Sharjah Biennale (UAE), XIII Biennial de Cuenca (Ecuador), Sydney Biennale (Australia) and Gwangju Biennale (Korea). Public collections include Smithsonian American Art Museum, British Museum, Louisiana MoMA, SFMoMA, Minneapolis Institute of Art, M+ Museum, Queensland Art Gallery, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Singapore Art Museum, among others.

Chung is an inaugural fellow of KAVAH Fermata Fellowship at the University of Chicago. She was a RITM’s Mellon Arts & Practitioner fellow at Yale University (2021) and a recipient of Asia Society’s Art Game Changer Award (2020) and Sharjah Biennial Artist Prize (2013). She is a co-founder of Sàn Art, an independent art space in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Chung holds an MFA from University of California, Santa Barbara (2000) and a BFA from California State University, Long Beach (1998).

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