333 E River Road
Minneapolis, MN 55455
United States
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Opening day activities include one-stop guided tours in the galleries, offering visitors an introduction to key themes and works throughout the exhibition, as well as hands-on artmaking experiences in Open Studio inspired by Chung's research-driven practice.
Explore the stories embedded in maps, trace connections across time and geography, and create your own response to the exhibition through interactive making activities designed for visitors of all ages.
Tiffany Chung: indelible traces is organized by the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara and curated by Orianna Cacchione. On view from September 19 - December 6, 2026.
Tiffany Chung: indelible traces is made possible thanks to the generous support of the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Henry Luce Foundation. Additional support provided by UCSB’s Art Equity Commons, the Billy Rose Foundation, and the AD&A Museum Council. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund. Additional general operating support is generously provided by Ameriprise Financial.
Image credit: Tiffany Chung, Mapping Global Displacement and Migration: nexus dynamics between conflict & violence and climate disaster [UNHCR, IDMC, EM-DAT: cross-border refugees, asylum-seekers, IDPs, and those affected in selected cases >2022<], 2023. Embroidery on fabric,140 x 350 cm (55 x 137 ¾ in.). Installation view, After Rain, Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale 2024. Photograph by Marco Cappelletti, courtesy of the Diriyah Biennale Foundation. © Tiffany Chung
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).
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