Biography

Born in 1986, Trương Công Tùng grew up in Dak Lak among various ethnic minorities in the Central Highlands, Vietnam. He graduated from the Ho Chi Minh Fine Arts University in 2010, majoring in lacquer painting.

 

Trương Công Tùng has exhibited extensively both in Vietnam and internationally, as a solo artist and as part of the Art Labor Collective. Selected exhibitions include: "Trail Dust," a solo exhibition at Canal Projects, New York (2024); "The Disoriented Garden...A Breath of Dream" at Sàn Art, Ho Chi Minh City (2023); Sasa Art Project, Phnom Penh (2024); and MUSEION, Bolzano (2024), for the Han Nefkens Foundation, where he won the Southeast Asian Video Art Production Grant 2023. His work also featured in "The State of Absence – Voices from Outside" (2020) and "The Spirits of Maritime Crossing" event (2024), organized by the Bangkok Art Biennale Foundation as a Collateral Event of the 60th Venice Biennale. Other notable exhibitions include “Is it morning for you yet?” at the 58th Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, USA (2022); “State of Absence…Words out there. A collaborative installation by plants, insects, earth, water, ash, air... and Trương Công Tùng,” at Manzi Art Space, Hanoi (2021); “The Sap Still Runs” (2019) at Sàn Art, Ho Chi Minh City; Bangkok Biennale (2018); “Between Fragmentation and Wholeness” at Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City (2018); “A Beast, a God, and a Line” at Para Site, Hong Kong (2018), and at the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (2018); Dhaka Art Summit (2018); Cosmopolis, Collective Intelligence at the Centre Pompidou, Paris (2017); “Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs” at Para Site, Hong Kong (2017) and at Kadist, San Francisco (2016); “Across the Forest” for Project Skylines with Flying People 3 at Nhà Sàn Collective, Hanoi (2016); and “Gestures and Archives of the Present, Genealogies of the Future” at the Taipei Biennial, Taiwan (2016).

Practice
With a research focus spanning science, cosmology, philosophy, and environmental studies, he works across various media, including video, installation, painting, and found objects. His work reflects personal contemplations on the cultural and geopolitical transformations driven by modernization, as seen through the evolving ecology, beliefs, and mythology of his homeland. Trương is also a member of Art Labor (founded in 2012), a collective that bridges visual art and social/life sciences to produce alternative, informal knowledge through artistic and cultural activities in various public contexts and locales.
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