MEET THE ARTIST: Tiffany Chung
Meet the artist: Tiffany Chung
Tiffany Chung is a multi-talented creator, expressing her ideas across a broad range of media including cartographic drawings and embroideries, paintings, sculptures, photographs, and videos. Her work thoughtfully examines conflict, geopolitical partitioning, spatial transformation, environmental crisis, and forced migration in relation to history and cultural memory.
Tiffany is one of six artists bringing their extraordinary talents to design an exhibit, performance, or installation as a part of the Trust for the National Mall's Beyond Granite, supported by the Mellon Foundation and presented in partnership with the National Capital Planning Commission and the National Park Service. This groundbreaking inaugural exhibition, curated by Monument Lab, will bring new works to and around the National Mall to broaden the voices and dialogue in commemoration and help expand the public's imagination.
Speaking about Beyond Granite’s aim to expand the commemorative space on the National Mall, Tiffany said…
Photo by AJ Mitchell
“It is an honor to be given the platform of the National Mall in the context of Pulling Together exhibition and to be recognized for the work that I have been doing in reclaiming the narrative. It is such a tremendous opportunity and an enormous responsibility to present stories hidden in plain sight right where they will hopefully have the most impact–the National Mall.”
- Tiffany Chung
In 2019, Tiffany presented a solo exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum—an accomplishment that she adds to long list that includes being feature at museums and biennials worldwide, including the 56th Venice Biennale (Italy), MoMA (NY), British Museum (UK), Nobel Peace Center (Norway), and Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (Germany), and many more.
Chung is a Mellon Arts & Practitioner Fellow at Yale University RITM, a program centered around artists, media makers, and journalists whose work focuses on race, indigeneity, and/or transnational migration. She was a finalist for the Vera List Center Prize and named Jane Lombard Fellow for Art & Social Justice and was the recipient of Asia Society Asian Arts Game Changer Award. Chung is based primarily in the United States and Vietnam.
About Beyond Granite
Photo by Monument Lab
Beyond Granite, funded by the Mellon Foundation, invites visionary artists to create special commemorative exhibits, performances, and installations on the National Mall and throughout the District of Columbia that will expand the public's imagination and understanding and create a more a more inclusive, equitable, and representative process for commemoration on the National Mall – and beyond.
”Pulling Together,” the inaugural exhibition of Beyond Granite, will feature installations and exhibits or prototype monuments, on the National Mall and in Washington, DC from leading contemporary artists that respond to a central curatorial question: What stories remain untold on the National Mall?
The Trust for the National Mall is honored to be working with the Mellon Foundation and its partners The National Capitol Planning Commission and the National Park Service to bring this new series to life to tell the fuller American story in the commemorative landscape.