Tiffany Chung

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Born 1969, Da Nang, Vietnam; lives in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

NYT: incidents of lives lost at sea and entries from the tracking of dead & missing by IOMMissing Migrants Project, 2017; acrylic, ink and oil on vellum and paper; 20 x 22 inches/51 x 56 cm

UNHCR, AFP: numbers and locations of Syrian refugees worldwide, 2017; acrylic, ink and oil on vellum and paper; 20 x 22 inches/51 x 56 cm

IOM Missing Migrants Project. EUROSTAT, FRONTEX, RAUL Analytics, ECHO: SAR zones, rescue operations by date, numbers of dead and missing in the Mediterranean, 2017; acrylic, ink and oil on vellum and paper; 15 x 19 3/4 inches/38 x 50 cm

For her 2017 solo exhibition, the unwanted population, Tiffany Chung featured work that tracked forced migration around the globe. In painstaking detail, she illustrates the data behind events like the post-1975 mass exodus of refugees from Vietnam, of which she herself was a part; the conflict and humanitarian crisis in Syria; and the current displacement of refugees around the world. Using maps on vividly colored backgrounds, Chung details statistical data of the dead and missing that manages to simultaneously represent geopolitical, human, and individual perspectives.

One of today’s most internationally active contemporary artists, Chung has participated in over 100 exhibitions and biennials on five continents, including: Insecurities: Tracing Displacement and Shelter, Museum of Modern Art, New York; IMPERMANENCIA. Mutable Art in a Materialist Society, XIII Bienal de Cuenca, Ecuador; 10th Taipei Biennial, Taiwan; Still (The) Barbarians, EVA International–Ireland’s Biennial; Illumination, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark; Sonsbeek, Museum Arnhem, Netherlands; All The World’s Futures, 56th Venice Biennale, Italy; Our Land/Alien Territory, Manege Museum & Exhibition Center, Moscow, Russia; My Voice Would Reach You, Rice University & Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; Residual: Disrupted Choreographies, Carré d’Art–Musée d’Art Contemporain, Nîmes, France; Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates; California Pacific Triennial, Newport Beach; 7th Asia Pacific Triennial, Brisbane, Australia; and Six Lines of Flight, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California.

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