4 - Tyler Rollings - Tiffany Chung

For her second solo exhibition at Tyler Rollins Fine Art, Tiffany Chung will present a new series of works inspired by maps of urban regions, featuring embroidery and appliqué works on canvas. Chung has been fascinated with maps for many years, not only for their graphic possibilities but also for what they say about both our relation to the past and our visions of the future.

Chung is considered to be [UTF-8?]Vietnamā€™s most prominent female contemporary artist. She is noted for her sculptures, videos, photographs, and performance work that use an exuberantly pop aesthetic to conjure candy-colored, hyperreal visions of contemporary Vietnam. Her latest exhibition, entitled scratching the walls of memory, explores the topographic after-images of some of the past [UTF-8?]centuryā€™s most traumatic conflicts and includes maps of the Berlin Wall, the Vietnamese DMZ, and the atomic bomb blast zones in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The exhibition marks a turning point in her work, as it is the first time she interweaves important historical events with personal and family history.

An active presence on the international art scene, Chung has participated in a wide range of museum exhibitions and biennials in Asia, Australia, Europe, and the US, including the Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale (Fukuoka, Japan), the Incheon International Women [UTF-8?]Artistsā€™ Biennale (Incheon, Korea), Zendai MoMA (Shanghai, China), Centre de Cultura Contemporįnia de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain), and Campbelltown Art Centre (Sydney, Australia). She will be a featured artist in the upcoming Singapore Biennale (March 13 – May 15, 2011).