Tiffany Chung
Mixed media installation (plexi-glass, wood veneer, plastic, aluminum, paint, steel cable, foam, copper wire)
Dimensions of installation: 236¼ x 141¾ in. (600 x 360 cm); houseboat dimensions variable
Mixed media installation (plexi-glass, wood veneer, plastic, aluminum, paint, steel cable, foam, copper wire)
Dimensions of installation: 236¼ x 141¾ in. (600 x 360 cm); houseboat dimensions variable
Mixed media installation (plexi-glass, wood veneer, plastic, aluminum, paint, steel cable, foam, copper wire)
Dimensions of installation: 236¼ x 141¾ in. (600 x 360 cm); houseboat dimensions variable
Mixed media installation (plexi-glass, wood veneer, plastic, aluminum, paint, steel cable, foam, copper wire)
Dimensions of installation: 236¼ x 141¾ in. (600 x 360 cm); houseboat dimensions variable
Mixed media installation (plexi-glass, wood veneer, plastic, aluminum, paint, steel cable, foam, copper wire)
Dimensions of installation: 236¼ x 141¾ in. (600 x 360 cm); houseboat dimensions variable
Mixed media installation (plexi-glass, wood veneer, plastic, aluminum, paint, steel cable, foam, copper wire)
Dimensions of installation: 236¼ x 141¾ in. (600 x 360 cm); houseboat dimensions variable
Mixed media installation (plexi-glass, wood veneer, plastic, aluminum, paint, steel cable, foam, copper wire)
Dimensions of installation: 236¼ x 141¾ in. (600 x 360 cm); houseboat dimensions variable
Mixed media installation (plexi-glass, wood veneer, plastic, aluminum, paint, steel cable, foam, copper wire)
Dimensions of installation: 236¼ x 141¾ in. (600 x 360 cm); houseboat dimensions variable
Mixed media installation (plexi-glass, wood veneer, plastic, aluminum, paint, steel cable, foam, copper wire)
Dimensions of installation: 236¼ x 141¾ in. (600 x 360 cm); houseboat dimensions variable
MICROPIGMENT INK AND OIL ON VELLUM AND PAPER, 110 x 70 cm
From "Fukagawa Dining Room" Installation, FUKAGAWA TOKYO MODAN KAN, TOKYO, JAPAN
miCROPIGMENT INK AND OIL ON VELLUM AND PAPER, 100 x 63 cm
From "Fukagawa Dining Room" Installation, FUKAGAWA TOKYO MODAN KAN, TOKYO, JAPAN
MICROPIGMENT INK AND OIL ON VELLUM AND PAPER, 90 x 64 cm
From "Fukagawa Dining Room" Installation, FUKAGAWA TOKYO MODAN KAN, TOKYO, JAPAN
embroidery, beads, and metal grommets on canvas
25½ x 43 in. (70 x 109 cm)
embroidery, beads, metal grommets, and buttons on canvas
43¾ x 33 in. (111 x 84 cm)
embroidery, beads, metal grommets, and buttons on canvas
44 x 34 IN. (112 x 86.5 CM)
embroidery, beads, metal grommets, and buttons on canvas
24 x 24 in. (61 x 61 cm)
embroidery, 3D fabric paint, metal grommets, and buttons on canvas
24 x 24 in. (61 x 61 cm)
embroidery, beads, metal grommets, and buttons on canvas
33½ x 43½ in. (85 x 110.5 cm)
Embroidery, painted metal grommets, and buttons on canvas
33 x 44¼ in. (84 x 112.5 cm)
Micropigment ink and oil on vellum and paper
39¼ x 24½ IN. (100 x 63 CM)
Micropigment ink and oil on vellum and paper
39¼ x 24½ IN. (100 x 63 CM)
micropigment ink and oil on vellum and paper
39¼ x 24½ IN. (100 x 63 CM)
"scratching the walls of memory" exhibition at Tyler Rollins Fine Art, 2010
"scratching the walls of memory" exhibition at Tyler Rollins Fine Art, 2010
mixed media (children's desk set; 38 handmade children's chalkboards with recycled wood, engraving, chalk; 24 hand-stitched satchels made from old army tents, embroidery)
main wall approx. 108 x 147 in. (275 x 373 cm)
micropigment ink, oil and alcohol-based marker on vellum and paper
43 x 27.5 in. (110 x 70 cm)
embroidery, beads, painted metal grommets, and buttons on canvas
42.5 x 33 in. (108 x 83 cm)
plexi-glass, wood
36 x 36 x 3.5 in. (92 x 92 x 9 cm)
plexi-glass, MDF, polystyrene, decorative tape, thermoplastic adhesive
79 x 265 in. (200 x 600 cm) base, dimensions of buildings variable
From "ATOPIA: ART AND CITY IN THE 21ST CENTURY, " BARCELONA, SPAIN, 2010
Finding Galapagos: Fish, Pigs, Youngsters, Old Folks, Men, Women and the Black Canals (Not in Any Particular Order)
Solo Exhibition, Berlin, Germany, 2009
Finding Galapagos: Fish, Pigs, Youngsters, Old Folks, Men, Women and the Black Canals (Not in Any Particular Order)
Solo Exhibition, Berlin, Germany, 2009
31 signs on 13 poles: MDF, PVC, plexi-glass
Dimensions Variable
Finding Galapagos: Fish, Pigs, Youngsters, Old Folks, Men, Women and the Black Canals (Not in Any Particular Order)
Solo Exhibition, Berlin, Germany, 2009
PVC, MDF, Polyester fiber filler, plush fabric, felt
height 104 IN. (262 1/10 CM)
Bamboo, Wire, Paper-Mache, Pompoms
40 X 68 IN. (101 3/5 X 172 7/10 CM)
Oil and alcohol-based markers on paper
31 1/2 x 43 1/4 in. (80 x 110 cm)
micropigment ink, oil and alcohol-based marker on and paper
43 1/4 x 65 in. (110 x 165.5 cm)
micropigment ink, oil and alcohol-based marker on and paper
43 1/4 x 65 in. (110 x 165.5 cm)
Tiffany Chung is one of Vietnam’s most prominent contemporary artists. Based in Saigon, she is noted for her sculptures, videos, photographs, and performance work that use a pop aesthetic to conjure hyperreal, candy-hued visions which reference both contemporary mass culture and the lingering resonances of historical trauma. Chung has long been fascinated with maps, not only for their graphic possibilities but also for what they say about our relation to the past and our visions of the future. Over the past few years, she has produced an ongoing series of works on paper based on urban planning maps that evoke the utopian visions and often harsh dislocations of our rapidly developing world.
For her 2010 exhibition at Tyler Rollins Fine Art, scratching the walls of memory, Chung presented a new body of work inspired by maps of urban regions, featuring embroidery and appliqué works on canvas. Delving deeper into the historical record, the exhibition explored the topographic after-images of some of the past century’s most traumatic conflicts and includes maps of the Berlin Wall, the Korean DMZ, and the atomic bomb blast zones in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The surfaces of her canvas maps are encrusted with beads and rhinestones, layered with embroidery, and punctured with metal grommets, creating richly textured, three dimensional landscapes whose beauty contrasts starkly with the somber historical realities they chart out.
Another major preoccupation of her work is the exploration of popular youth culture in Vietnam, in particular cosplay and other Japanese influences. These interests informed her 2008 exhibition at Tyler Rollins Fine Art, Play, which combined a cosplay aesthetic with imagery from Vietnamese communist propaganda billboards.
Chung has had numerous group and solo exhibitions and residencies throughout Asia, Europe, and the United States. In 2009, she was featured in So Close Yet So Far Away: Incheon International Women Artists’ Biennale in Incheon, South Korea; A Starting Point: Intrude 36 – Dynamics of Change and Growth at Zendai MoMA, Shanghai; and in group shows in Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, and Milan. In 2010, in addition to her solo show at Tyler Rollins Fine Art, her work was shown in Ascending Dragon: Contemporary Vietnamese Arts at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, California; The River Project at the Campbelltown Arts Centre in Sydney, Australia; and in a solo exhibition in Berlin.
She was a featured artist in the Singapore Biennale (March 13 – May 15, 2011), for which she presented a highly acclaimed installation about global houseboat communities. She also had a solo exhibition in Tokyo, Fukagawa Shokudo (Fukagawa Dining Room) at the Fukagawa Tokyo Modan Kan (February 11 – March 21, 2011). Upcoming in 2012, she will participate in two exhibitions at museums in the United States: Six Lines of Flight at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (September 15 – December 31); and The Map as Art at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Missouri (January 20 – May 6). She will also be a featured artist in a major international biennial.
CATALOGUE ESSAYS
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