Born in Saigon, Vietnam, Lien Truong's practice examines social and political ideologies, challenging cultural and material hierarchies, and notions of identity in painting history. Her work has been presented in exhibitions at the National Portrait Gallery; North Carolina Museum of Art; Station Museum of Contemporary Art; Weatherspoon Art Museum; Oakland Museum of California; Art Hong Kong; Sea Focus, Singapore; Southern Exposure; Nhasan Collective and Galerie Quynh in Vietnam; Patricia Sweetow Gallery and Turner Carroll Gallery. Awards include the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant, fellowships from the Institute of Arts and Humanities and the North Carolina Arts Council; and residencies at the Oakland Museum of California and the Marble House Project. She has received reviews and mention in Art Asia Pacific, The San Francisco Chronicle; Houston Chronicle; Oakland Tribune; New American Paintings, and ARTit Japan. Truong is an Associate Professor of Art in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
SELECT RECENT EXHIBITIONS / PRESS
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Solo Exhibition
105 Fayerweather Hall
Amherst College, Amherst, MA
October 21 - November 22, 2019
118 Đường Nguyễn Văn Thủ, Đa Kao, Quận 1
Hồ Chí Minh City, Vietnam
September 14-28, 2019
with Victoria Jang and Jacqueline Surdell
San Francisco, CA
September 7 - October 19, 2019
Reception: Saturday, September 7, 4 – 6 pm.
3pm: Artist conversation moderated by Gail Wight
Interwoven: Natural and Illusory Textiles
Weatherspoon Art Museum
Greensboro, NC
Jun 22, 2019 – Sep 29, 2019
New York, NY
June 6-July 2, 2019
Reception: June 6, 6-8pm
March 22, 2018
" … and still we banter with the Devil" by Lien Truong"
Houston Chronicle
a review of my work in In(di)visible by Molly Glentzer
April 19, 2018
"Station Museum examines Asian American Identity in Latest Exhibition"
Byline Houston
A review of In(di)visible i by Paul Middendorf
August 10, 2018
An Interview by Jeff Bell
Produced by Warren Hicks
September 20, 2018
Studio Visit with Maria Britton
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, USA (in the Linda Lee Alter Collection of Art by Women)
North Carolina Museum of Art, USA
D.C. Collection, Disaphol Chansiri, Thailand
Weatherspoon Art Museum, USA
Almine Rech, France
Cameron Art Museum, USA
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Vietnam Post-Vidai, Vietnam
Humboldt State University, USA
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