Tiffany Chung

Tiffany Chung turns historical and geographical research into maps, embroidery, sculpture, video and other material forms. Her projects follow displacement, migration and the ways political and environmental forces reshape places over time. The Syria Project, presented in the 2015 Venice Biennale, used map-based drawings to trace cycles of conflict and movement. Vietnam, Past Is Prologue at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 2019 developed a sustained inquiry into the war in Vietnam and its aftermath. Her biography also records the co-founding of Sàn Art in Ho Chi Minh City. These connections make her work valuable for readers interested in how a map can become an account of lived history rather than simply a diagram of territory. Compare the visual precision of individual works with the research questions that organize each project.