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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.

LaToya Ruby Frazier develops photographic and moving-image projects through sustained relationships with people confronting unequal access to work, healthcare and a livable environment. Born in Braddock, Pennsylvania, in 1982, she made The Notion of Family with her family and hometown as central subjects. The project connects intimate domestic life with the effects of industrial decline. Her archive also includes Flint is Family and The Last Cruze, extending the inquiry to water, public health and the experience of autoworkers. Rather than treating a portrait as a self-contained image, these bodies of work ask readers to follow relationships across time. The artist's website provides a route through the individual projects and their contexts, making it possible to compare the formal choices of documentary photography with the collaboration on which the work depends.

Kapwani Kiwanga develops research-driven works that put historical accounts into dialogue with material and spatial experience. Born in Hamilton, Canada, she studied anthropology and comparative religion at McGill University before studying art in Paris. Her practice spans installation, sculpture, photography, video and performance, often returning to histories that have been marginalized within dominant accounts. Flowers for Africa reconstructs floral arrangements from archival images, while other works use architectural surfaces and carefully chosen materials to address power and circulation. She represented Canada at the 2024 Venice Biennale with Trinket. The artist's site links directly to her representing galleries, where project documentation adds scale and context. Begin with the materials of a particular work, then follow the historical research that gives those materials a role beyond their immediate appearance.