Tiffany Chung

Tiffany Chung is a Vietnamese American contemporary artist who works primarily in thematic cartography and installation, and is also active in photography, painting, performance, sculpture, and other arts.

Chung is globally noted for her interdisciplinary and research-based practice, with works and installations that examine conflict, geopolitical partitioning, spatial transformation, environmental crisis, displacement, and forced migration, across time and terrain.

[2] Chung is known for her meticulously detailed cartographic works and multimedia installations consisting of hand-drawn and embroidered maps, paintings, photographs, sculptures, videos, archival materials, and at times, theater performances.

Chung's research and practice delve into an interwoven and complex framework of social, political, economic, and environmental processes in countries impacted by war destruction and climate disasters.

Her work excavates layers in histories of traumatized topographies, creating interventions into the spatial and political narratives produced through statecraft with cultural memories.

Marianne Krogh, Strandberg Publishing, Denmark (2020); “While the World Stands Still,” Art at A Time Like This, NY (2020);[10] “[no] victory,” Aroop: Totems and Taboos, Vol.3, No.1, ed.

Selected talks include “East-West Dialogue with Viet Thanh Nguyen & Tiffany Chung,” East West Fest, Asian Cultural Council, NY (2021);[11][12] “After Hope: Artists in Conversation,” Museum of African Diaspora & Asian Art Museum, San Francisco (2020);[13][14] “Profit and Loss” Symposium, University of Toronto, Ontario (2020);[15] “Tiffany Chung: Remapping Histories: Wars, Embattled Sites, and Forced Migration,” Minneapolis Institute of Art (2020);[16] “Tiffany Chung,” James Dicke Contemporary Artist Lecture, SAAM (2019);[17] “Global Voices: Conversations with Jane Lombard Fellows,” If Art Is Politics, Vera List Center Forum, NY (2019);[18] “Citizens and Borders: Migration and Displacement” panel discussion co-organized by MoMA, ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival, India (2017);[19] “Tiffany Chung in conversation with war correspondent Nagieb Khaja,” art alive Kunst Festival, Louisiana MoMA, Denmark (2016);[20] among others.

[21] In 2016 and 2017, Chung conducted map-making workshops with young refugees living in Denmark in Traveling with Art, an education program initiated by Louisiana MoMA & Danish Red Cross schools.

During the recent pandemic, Chung worked with her former professor, Kim Yasuda, to conceive and carry out an academic alternative program at UC Santa Barbara, AGENCY | URGENCY: Learning with the Global Souths.

Selected scholars’ publications include The City in Time: Contemporary Art and Urban Form in Vietnam and Cambodia, Pamela N. Corey (Univ.

of Washington Press, 2021); Return Engagements: Contemporary Art’s Traumas of Modernity and History in Sài Gòn and Phnom Penh, Việt Lê (Duke Univ.

Anna Hickey-Moody & Tara Page (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2016); “Tiffany Chung – an archaeology for future remembrance” by Erik Harms (Yale professor in anthropology & author of Luxury and Rubble: Civility and Dispossession in the New Saigon, Univ.

Chung's work has also been reviewed in The New York Times, Artforum, Art Asia Pacific, Frieze, Artsy, Hyperallergic, CNN, Wall Street International, Ocula, Houston Chronicle, and others.

[22] In 2017, the Japan Foundation published an in-depth interview entitled “Tiffany Chung – Excavating and Remapping Erased Histories.”[23] She has also been featured in video interviews by SAAM, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Louisiana MoMA (Denmark), M+ (Hong Kong) and radio programs such as BBC Sounds (UK) and ABC Radio National (Australia).