indelible traces: Tiffany Chung in Conversation with Orianna Cacchione

Tiffany Chung will be in conversation with curator Orianna Cacchione at the Weisman Art Museum on Wednesday, October 28, as part of the exhibition indelible traces. The talk is a chance to hear Chung talk through the work in person, with Cacchione leading the conversation.

Chung is an interdisciplinary artist whose research-driven practice looks at the intersections of history, culture, and geography. She works across cartography, embroidery, painting, photography, sculpture, video, text, and music, and her work traces the shifts shaped by war, displacement, disaster, and global trade. Born in 1969 in Da Nang, Vietnam, and now based in Houston, Texas, she earned a BFA in Photography from California State University, Long Beach in 1998 and an MFA from UC Santa Barbara in 2000. She was also an inaugural KAVAH Fermata Fellow at the University of Chicago.

Her work has been shown at the 56th Venice Biennale, the Sharjah Biennial, and the Gwangju Biennale, and has been featured at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the British Museum in London, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Recent solo shows include Vietnam, Past Is Prologue at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 2019 and Rise Into the Atmosphere at the Dallas Museum of Art from 2023 to 2025. She received the Asia Arts Game Changer Award in 2020 and the Sharjah Biennial Artist Prize for Exceptional Contribution in 2013.

indelible traces opened on September 19 and runs through December 6, so if you haven't seen the exhibition yet, you can catch it before the talk. The conversation takes place at the Weisman, 333 E River Road in Minneapolis, and it's free and open to the public.