Tiffany Chung (Vietnam/USA, 1969) 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.
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.
2000 MFA, Studio Art, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 1998 BFA, Photography, California State University, Long Beach, CA,
University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
2025 Crossroads of Time, Max Estrella Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2023 Tiffany Chung: rise into the atmosphere, Dallas Museum of Art,
Dallas, TX
entangled traces, disremembered landscapes, Kiang Malingue, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2022 Terra Rouge: Circles, Traces of Time, Rebellious Solitude, Davidson Gallery, New York, NY
Archaeology for Future Remembrance, Davidson Gallery, New York,
NY
2019 passage of time, Tyler Rollins Fine Art, New York, NY
Tiffany Chung: Vietnam, Past is Prologue, Smithsonian American Art
Museum, Washington, DC
2018 Tiffany Chung – Thu Thiem: an archaeological project for future
remembrance, Johann Jacobs Museum, Zurich, Switzerland; travelled
to Lumiar Cite Maumaus, Lisbon, Portugal
2017 the unwanted population, Tyler Rollins Fine Art, New York, NY 2016 between the blank spaces of Hitachi Factories I read poetry
interwoven with tales of the barbarians, famines and war sacrifices, Hitachi City Museum, Ibaraki, Japan
the unwanted population – Hong Kong chapter, part 1: flotsam and jetsam, Art Basel, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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
2014 Tiffany Chung, Lieu-Commun, Toulouse, France
2013 an archaeology project for future remembrance. Galerie Quynh,
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
the Galápagos project: on the brink of our master plans. Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Memories Constructed / Reconstructed, Site-specific installation at former Futaba Elementary School, organized by dB Dance Box, Kobe,Japan
2012 TOMORROW ISN’T HERE, Tyler Rollins Fine Art, New York, NY
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
2009 Finding Galápagos: Fish, Pigs, Youngsters, Old Folks, Men, Women and the Black Canals (Not
In Any Particular Order), Galerie Christian Hosp, Berlin, Germany 2008 Play, Tyler Rollins Fine Art, New York, NY
Wonderland, Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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
LamTruong TODAY, performance, Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
2006 Beyond Soft Air and Cotton Candy, LMan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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 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
1998 Looking through A Keyhole, Gallery 1434, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 1997 Private Realities, Gallery C, California State University, Long Beach, CA
2025 UNCHARTED: Artists as Wayfinders, Sun Valley Museum of Art, Ketchum, ID Moving Vietnam, Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
2024 Louisiana’s time, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark Unbearable Lightness, ROH Projects, Jakarta, Indonesia
Are you Ready? Surge to 2030: Enhancing Ambition in Asia-Pacific to Accelerate Disaster Risk Reduction, SM Mall of Asia, Pasay, Philippines
Ocean in Us: Southern Visions of Women Artists, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Pacific Standard Time Art | Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA; travelled to the Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University, Houston, TX
Lines, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
After Rain, the 2nd Diriyah Biennale, Saudi Arabia
Home and the World, Museum Van Loon, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
This Is Not Just Local: Practical Practices, Busan Museum of Contemporary Art, Busan, South Korea
2023 Beyond Granite: Pulling Together, National Mall, Washington DC, USA
American Voices and Visions, Smithsonian American Art Museum, DC
Art on paper since 1960: the Hamish Parker Collection, the British Museum, London, United Kingdom
Hong Kong: Here and Beyond, M+, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Rising Sun–Artists and an Uncertain America, PAFA Museum, Philadelphia, PA
State-less, Two Temple Place, London, United Kingdom
Unbearable Lightness, ROH Projects, Jakarta, Indonesia
Permanent collection survey, Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, NY
One Day We’ll Go Home, Emerson Contemporary, Boston, MA
2022 In the Heart of Another Country, DEICHTORHALLEN HAMBURG, Germany; travelled to
Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Tiffany Chung, Shilpa Gupta, Mona Hatoum, Shirin Neshat: Works from Faurschou Collection, Faurschou Foundation, NY, USA WALK!, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany Urban Impressions, Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University, Houston, TX
Lonely Vectors, Singapore Art Museum at Tanjong Pagar DistriPark, Singapore
Revolve: Spotlight on the Permanent Collection, Cummer Museum, Jacksonville, FL
Chaos: Calm, Bangkok Art Biennale, Bangkok, Thailand
The Moody Celebrates 5 Years of Transformative Encounters with the Arts, Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University, Houston, TX
Works from Faurschou Collection, Faurschou Foundation, New York, NY
Walk!, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
Chaos: Calm, Bangkok Art Biennale, Bangkok, Thailand
2021 Art and the Global Climate Struggle, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
After Hope: Videos of Resistance, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA; travelled to Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA and the Center for Asian American Media, San Francisco, CA After Hope: Videos of Resistance” Center for Asian American Media, San Francisco, CA
2020 South East North West: New Works from the Collection, San José Museum of Art, CA No Man’s Land, Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, TX
2019 Perilous Bodies, Ford Foundation Gallery, New York, NY
Artists Reflect: Contemporary Views on the American War, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Unquiet Harmony: The Subject of Displacement, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE Homeless Souls, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
Where We Now Stand – In Order to Map the Future, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
2018 Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea New Cartographies, Asia Society, Houston TX
Dismantling the Scaffold, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Nothing Stable Under Heaven, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA A Painting for the Emperor, Johann Jacobs Museum, Zurich, Switzerland
This Land Is Whose Land?, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, ID
Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Two Houses: Politics and Histories in the Contemporary Art Collections of John Chia and Yeap Lam Yang, LASALLE College of Arts, Singapore
Crossing Boundaries: Art/Maps, Boston Public Library Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center, Boston MA
2017 Performing the Border, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna, Austria A Collective Present, Spring Workshop, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
SUNSHOWER: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia 1980s to Now, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Detours, Nobel Peace Center, Oslo, Norway
2016 Insecurities: Tracing Displacement and Shelter, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Migration Politics: Three CAMP exhibitions at the SMK, Statens Museum for Kunst/National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
Taipei Biennial 2016, Taipei City, Taiwan
EVA International – Ireland’s Biennial: Still (The) Barbarians, Limerick City, Ireland
Land, Sea and Air, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, United Kingdom
Illumination, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
When Things Fall Apart – Critical Voices on the Radars, Trapholt, Kolding, Denmark Demarcate: Territorial Shift in Personal and Societal Mapping, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
IMPERMANENCIA Mutable Art in a Materialistic Society, The XIII Bienal de Cuenca, Ecuador
Sonsbeek, Museum Arnhem, Arnhem, the Netherlands
EMAP 2016: S.O.S. Save Our Souls – Art for a Time of Urgencies, Media Art Festival, Ewha Woman’s University, Seoul, Korea
Seismograph: Sensing the City – Art in an Urban Age, Marina Bay Sands Expo & Convention Center, Singapore
Suzhou Documents: Histories of a Global Hub, Suzhou Museum, Suzhou, China
Some Are Nights Other Stars, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK
2015 All the World’s Futures, Venice Biennale, Italy
I Bienal del Sur: Pueblos en Resistencia, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela Our Land/Alien Territory, Central Manege, Moscow, Russia
2014 My Voice Would Reach You, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX Threads, Museum Arnhem, Arnhem, the Netherlands
Disrupted Choreographies, Carré d’Art – Musée d’art contemporain de Nîmes, Nîmes, France Starting Here: A Selection of Distinguished Artists from UCSB, Art, Design & Architecture Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
Enduring Traces: Tiffany Chung, Vandy Rattana and Zarina Hashmi, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY
Beyond Pressure Art Festival, People’s Park, Yangon, Myanmar 2013 Cartographies, Tyler Rollins Fine Art, New York, NY
California Pacific Triennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Gentle Matter, Richard Koh Fine Art, Singapore
Welcome to the Jungle: Contemporary Art in Southeast Asia from the collections of Singapore Art Museum & Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Japan
2012 Six Lines of Flight, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA The Map as Art, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO Asia Pacific Triennial, Queensland, Australia
Facing West/Looking East, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA
Venti d’Oriente mc2 Gallery, Milan, Italy
Kuandu Biennale, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
Encounter: Royal Academy in Asia, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore
Art Stays, 10th Festival of Contemporary Art, Ptuj, Slovenija
There Can Be No Better World, Museum of Contemporary Art & Design at De La Salle College of Saint Benilde, Manila, the Philippines
Panorama: Recent Art from Contemporary Asia, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
2011 stored in a jar: monsoon, drowning fish, color of water, and the floating world, Singapore Biennale 2011, Singapore
Roving Eye, Sorlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand, Norway
Lucca Digital Photo Festival, Lucca, Italy
Nepal International Indigenous Film Festival, Indigenous Film Archive, Kathmandu, Nepal Lifescapes: Southeast Asian Film Festival, Payap University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2010 ATOPIA: Art and City in the 21st Century, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. The River Project, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney, Australia
Ascending Dragon, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA 2009 Vietnam Mon Amour: Tiffany Chung, Loan Nguyen, Trong Gia Nguyen, Do Hoang Tuong,mc2 gallery, Milan, Italy So Close Yet So Far Away: 2009 Incheon International Women Artists’ Biennale, Incheon, South Korea A Starting Point: Intrude 36—Dynamics of Change and Growth, Zendai MoMA, Shanghai, China Time Ligaments, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Cartographical Lure, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2008 Strategies from Within, KE Center for Contemporary Arts, Shanghai, China Showcase Singapore, Singapore
2007 transPOP: Korea Vietnam Remix, Arko Museum, Seoul, South Kora; travelled to Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; University Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine, CA; and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA Confectionaries/Conurbations, 100 Tonson Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
Happy Hours, Hatch Art/ZAIM, Yokohama, Japan
2006 Facts and Figures, Artwalk Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Open Studio, Arcus Project, Ibaraki, Japan
Labor Exchange: How Much For A Buck?, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA Parallel Realities FT3, Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery, Blackburn, UK.
2005 The 3rd Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale 2005, Fukuoka, Japan
2004 Identities Versus Globalization, Chiang Mai Art Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand; travelled to
National Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand; Dahlem Museum, Berlin, Germany
2001 Shooting NoWhere, The Hatch Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2000 Shooting NoWhere, The Hatch Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1999 Insight 97, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA 1998 Insight 96, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA
2022 Artist2Artist Fellowship Award, Art Matters, New York, NY
2021 Mellon Arts & Practitioner Fellowship, Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and
Transnational Migration at Yale University, New Haven, CT
2018 Jane Lombard Fellow, The New School/Vera List Center, New York, NY
2015 Asian Cultural Council Grant, New York, NY
2014 Research Residency, Centre for Contemporary Art, Nanyang Technological University,
Singapore
2013 Sharjah Biennial Prize, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
2011 Residence Research Fellowship, Akiyoshidai International Art Village, Yamaguchi, Japan 2010 Art Matters Grant, New York, NY
Residence Fellowship, Akiyoshidai International Art Village, Yamaguchi, Japan 2007 Arts Network Asia Travel Grant, Singapore
Artist in residence, transPOP: Korea Vietnam Remix project, Ssamzie Space & Insa Art Space,
Seoul, Korea
2006 Artist in residence, Arcus Project, Ibaraki, Japan
2005 Artist in residence, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan ARC Grant, Durfee Foundation
2000 Arts Bridge Scholarship, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
1999 Art Studio Departmental Award, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
Arts Bridge Scholarship, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
1998 Graduate Opportunity Fellowship, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
Interdisciplinary Humanities Fellowship, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 1997 People’s Choice Award in Printmaking, California State University, Long Beach, CA
“Artist Tiffany Chung’s maps trace tragic routes”, Houston Chronicle, Molly Glentzer, 4 January 2019. “Tiffany Chung,”,The New York Times, Holland Cotter, 29 September 2017.
“Five Plus One section – Tiffany Chung,” Almanac edition, Art Asia Pacific, Tsai, Sylvia, Vol XII, Jan 2017,
Hong Kong.
“Tiffany Chung on Brilliant Ideas,” documentary series, Bloomberg Television & bloomberg.com, 10
November 2016.
“Tiffany Chung | Mapping crisis through memory,” HAPPENING, Anne Maniglier, 28 October 2016, Paris,
France.
“Tiffany Chung: To Be Remembered,” Art Asia Pacific, Sylvia Tsai, Issue 100, September/October 2016, Hong
Kong.
“Probeheads Of Resistance and The Heterotopic Mirror: Tiffany Chung and Dinh Q. Lê’s Stratigraphic
Cartographies,” Arts, Pedagogy and Cultural Resistance New Materialism, Colin Gardner, Ed.
Anna Hickey-Moody & Tara Page, London: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2016, UK. “Tiffany Chung, Contemporary Artist,” The European Business Review, Female Leadership in our Time special
edition, 16 April 2016.
Tiffany Chung (monograph), 2015, Galerie Quynh, Vietnam and Tyler Rollins Fine Art, New York.
Tiffany Chung: an archaeology for future remembrance & The Galápagos Project: on the brinks of our master
plans, exhibition catalogue, 2014, Galerie Quynh, Vietnam.
Lien Truong, “Tiffany Chung’s Fantasy Futurism,” diaCRITICS, 24 Feb. 2014, USA.
Tiffany Chung,” Art Asia Pacific, Jan 2014, Hong Kong.
Lisa Havilah, “The Future Worlds of Tiffany Chung,” Contemporary Visual Art + Culture BROADSHEET,
March 2011, South Australia.
Ulrike Münter, “Artificial Paradises or Home-Where? Tiffany Chung’s productions lead to utopia/dystopia,”
exhibition catalogue, Galerie Christian Hosp, 2009, Germany.
Viet Le, “All Work, All Play: of Workers and Cosplayers, Or, Popaganda: the art of Tiffany Chung,” exhibition
catalogue, 2008, New York.
Sue Hadju, “Tiffany Chung – in Ho Chi Minh City, on Ho Chi Minh City,” Saigon Citylife, January 2004,
Vietnam.
Quoc Hung, “Tiffany Chung,” The Saigon Times Daily, 21 Oct. 2003, Vietnam.
AK Wien Kultur, Vienna, Austria
British Museum, London, United Kingdom
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, NY
Busan Museum of Contemporary Art, Busan, South Korea Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Jacksonville, FL
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Ford Foundation, New York, NY
Faurschou Foundation, Copenhagen, Denmark
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Herbert F. Johnson Art Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
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