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Go Vap
2008, oil and alcohol-based markers on paper
91 x 136 cm

Tiffany Chung utilizes a pop sensibility to capture the essence of the vibrant city life of an increasingly urban–and urbane–Việt Nam. Chung’s pastiche installations combines photography; sculptural elements often made of foam, wood, or fabric; and at times video. Her photographs often employ the same visual vocabulary and materials found in her installations: polystyrene, polyethylene foam, MDF. Highly stylized sculptural objects reference street vendor carts, gas stations, and so on. Her work offers a new vision of space and place—a candy-colored utopic, and hyperreal fantasy which displaces the historical, documentary images of a traumatized topography. Chung foregrounds excess, consumer culture, surface and questions the distinctions between public and private space, (cultural) adaptation and (economic) aspiration, performativity and pleasure.



Famous for Fifteen at the Sugarless Factory
2005, The 3rd Fukuoka Triennale
Mixed media performance featuring Minh Thu

Her recent photographic work revolves around both fictitious and real characters situated in the ever-changing landscape of our time and generation. These characters go through life in both real and imaginative worlds, as the story oscillates between different events in these two worlds in a non-linear time sequence. These works depict cultural changes linked to spatial transformations, creating new urban mythologies and heroes.



Double Bubble Bazooka
2005, C-prints
93 x 76 cm each

Upon obtaining her MFA from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2000, Chung returned to Hồ Chí Minh City where she currently lives and works. Notable exhibitions include the 3rd Fukuoka Triennale, transPOP: Korea Việt Nam Remix at Arko Museum in Korea,Identities Versus Globalization at Chiang Mai Art Museum in Thailand and Parallel Realities at Blackburn Museum in England. Solo exhibitions in 2008 include wonderland at Galerie Quynh in Ho Chi Minh City and Play at Tyler Rollins Fine Art in New York. Chung will be participating in the forthcoming exhibition A Starting Point: Intrude 366 – Dynamics of change and growth at Zendai Museum of Modern Art in Shanghai.

Click here to read an interview with Tiffany Chung.