Thursday at the Blaffer | Tiffany Chung
Please join us in welcoming Houston-based artist Tiffany Chung for a public talk and conversation with Blaffer Director, Dr. Laura Augusta. Chung will be discussing the process of making her mid-career retrospective exhibition, Indelible Traces, which just opened at the AD&A Museum in Santa Barbara, California. That exhibition will travel to the Blaffer Art Museum in the summer of 2027.
About the Artist: Tiffany Chung (born 1969, Đà Nẵng, Việt Nam; lives in Houston, Texas) is an interdisciplinary artist globally recognized for her research-driven practice exploring the intersections of history, culture, and geography on both local and global scales. Working across diverse media—including cartography, embroidery, painting, photography, sculpture, video, text, and music—her projects trace shifts in cultural, geopolitical, and natural landscapes shaped by the upheavals of war, displacement, disaster, and global trade. Chung earned a BFA in Photography at California State University, Long Beach (1998), and an MFA at the University of California, Santa Barbara (2000). She is currently an inaugural KAVAH Fermata Fellow at the University of Chicago. Previously, she was a Mellon Arts & Practitioner Fellow at the Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration (RITM) (2021) and served as Jane Lombard Fellow for Art & Social Justice at the Vera List Center, New School (2018–20).
Chung has exhibited her artwork widely in the United States and abroad. Recent solo exhibitions include Vietnam, Past Is Prologue at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (2019) and Rise Into the Atmosphere at the Dallas Museum of Art (2023–25), as well as presentations at Lumiar Cité/Maumaus, Lisbon, Portugal (2019); Johann Jacobs Museum, Zürich, Switzerland (2018); Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark (2016); Kenpoku Art at the Hitachi City Museum, Ibaraki, Japan (2016); and Lieu-Commun, Toulouse, France (2014). Her work has been featured in major exhibitions and biennials throughout the world. Exhibitions include, most recently, Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice, at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, as part of PST Art (2024–25); Are you Ready? Surge to 2030: Enhancing Ambition in Asia-Pacific to Accelerate Disaster Risk Reduction, UNDRR Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (2024); After Rain: Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale (2024); For the Living, part of Beyond Granite: Pulling Together at the National Mall in Washington, DC (2023). Biennials include the 56th Venice Biennale, Sharjah Biennial, Biennale of Sydney, Gwangju Biennale, Bienal de Cuenca (Ecuador), EVA International (Ireland). Her work has also been presented at the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the British Museum (London), Schirn Kunsthalle (Frankfurt, Germany), the Nobel Peace Center (Oslo, Norway), Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Humlebæk, Denmark), Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, M+ museum (Hong Kong), 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa (Japan), and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco), among others. Chung has received the Asia Arts Game Changer Award (2020), the Asian Cultural Council Grant (2015), and Sharjah Biennial Artist Prize for Exceptional Contribution (2013).
Date:
Thursday, February 26, 2026 | 1:30pm-3pm
Location:
Blaffer Art Museum cafe, Reception to follow