Trương Công Tùng
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. 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.
He is also a member of Art Labor (founded in 2012), a collective working between visual art and social/life sciences to produce alternative non-formal knowledge via artistic and cultural activities in various public contexts and locales.
Trương Công Tùng’s practice unfolds like an ever-growing garden—fluid, non-linear, and in constant transformation. Each body of work begins with a seed—marked by a starting date—but remains deliberately open-ended, continuously nurtured and reshaped over time. In his studio, the artist tends to his works like a gardener, revisiting them daily with care and quiet attention.
Exhibitions emerge not as definitive statements, but as fragments drawn from this living ecosystem—a mind-map in motion. Through this evolving environment, the artist cultivates a space where memory, myth, landscape, and spiritual inquiry can grow and intertwine.
Trương Công Tùng’s work has been exhibited internationally, including at institutions such as the Hamburger Kunsthalle (Hamburg), the Museion (Bolzano), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Para Site (Hong Kong), Kadist (Paris/San Francisco), Museum of Modern Art (Warsaw), and at major events including the Venice Biennale (Collateral Event), Carnegie International (Pittsburgh), Dhaka Art Summit, Bangkok Biennale, and Taipei Biennial.
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