tuesday, january 21, 2020 | 4:30 – 6:30 PM | Humanities 1, room 210
Using photography, video, and sound installation, Hong-An Truong’s talk engages question about history and how knowledge is produced through media forms. Often drawing on her lived experience as the daughter of Vietnamese refugees, her work explores historical and political themes, especially around war, violence, and race. Truong’s talk will focus on several recent projects that explore how citizenship and notions of belonging are constructed in order to expand our conception of refugees and Asian American identity within a larger global history of anti-colonial struggle and cross-national organizing.
Recipient of a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship, Hong-an Truong is an artist who explores immigrant, refugee, and decolonial narratives and subjectivities. She is an Associate Professor of Art and Director of Graduate Studies in the MFA Program at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Introducing Artist-in-Residence, Hong-An Truong
The CRJ is excited to bring a short-term artist-in-residence, Hồng-Ân Trương, to UC Santa Cruz! Truong will give a public artist lecture and guest lectures at undergraduate classes the week of January 21-23.
Trương is an artist who uses photography, video, and sound to explore immigrant, refugee, and decolonial narratives and subjectivities. Her work has been shown in both solo and group exhibitions at the International Center for Photography (NY), Art in General (NY), Fundación PROA (Buenos Aires), Istanbul Modern (Istanbul, Turkey), Smack Mellon (NY), the Nasher Museum of Art (Durham, NC), The Kitchen (NY), Nhà Sàn (Hanoi), the Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin, Ireland), Southeast Center for Contemporary Art (Winston-Salem, NC), EFA Project Space (NY), Socrates Sculpture Park (NY), Franconia Sculpture Park (MN), Leslie Tonkonow Gallery (NY), Rubber Factory (NY), the Phillips Collection (Washington D.C.) and the Minneapolis Institute of Art (MN), among many others.
She was included in the New Orleans triennial Prospect.4: The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp in 2017-2018. Her collaborative work with Hương Ngô was exhibited in the biannual exhibition on photography at the Museum of Modern Art, Being: New Photography 2018. Her work has been reviewed in Artforum, The New Yorker, the New York Times, The Brooklyn Rail, ARTnews, Artnet, The Wall Street Journal, and Hyperallergic, among others. She participated in The Drawing Center’s Open Sessions program in 2016-2017, and has been an artist-in-residence at the Marble House Project (VT), the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the Elsewhere Museum (NC), the Center for Photography at Woodstock (NY), and the Visual Studies Workshop (NY).
Her writing has appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, Shifter Magazine, Pastelegram Magazine, PERFORMA09: Back to Futurism, edited by Roselee Goldberg, and Contemporary Theater Review. She has been awarded an Art Matters Foundation Grant, a Foundation for Contemporary Arts emergency grant, and is a 2019-2020 Guggenheim Foundation Fellow in Fine Art. She received her MFA from the University of California, Irvine and was a fellow in the Whitney Independent Study Program. She is currently the artist in residence at the Capp Street Project at the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art at CCA in San Francisco. Hồng-Ân is based in Durham, North Carolina where she is an activist and a teacher. She is an Associate Professor of Art at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
