The act of manipulating pigment over a support instantaneously embraces centuries of historical drawing and painting, art made integral with religious principals and cultural ideologies. I am at once undeniably seduced by the sensation of pushing material over a surface and at the same time curiously fixated on the present day relevance and discoveries of these primordial acts. For me, the advancement of art and culture are parallel. Creating art becomes an illuminating act, one undertaken to understand contemporary doctrines by the study of evolving sentiments. My work examines the development and substance of our belief systems.
Truong's work has been included in exhibitions at the National Portrait Gallery; North Carolina Museum of Art; Station Museum of Contemporary Art; The Centre of Contemporary Art in Moscow; Oakland Museum of California; Nhasan Collective and Galerie Quynh, Vietnam; Art Hong Kong; SEA Focus, Singapore; and Southern Exposure. She is the recipient of several awards including 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. Her work is in several public collections including the Linda Lee Alter Collection at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (USA), DC Collection, Disaphol Chansiri (Thailand), North Carolina Museum of Art (USA), the Weatherspoon Art Museum (USA); and the Post-Vi Dai Collection and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Vietnam). She is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
NEWS 2019
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Solo Exhibition
105 Fayerweather Hall
Amherst College, Amherst, MA
October 21 - November 22, 2019
2019 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant Recipient
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
The Peril of Angel's Breath enters the permanent collection of the Cameron Art Museum
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
Featuring a video collaboration
with Hồng-An Trương
Artspace, Raleigh, NC
April 26- June 27, 2019
Gallery talk: Saturday May 18, 12 noon
Turner Carroll Gallery
Santa Fe, New Mexico
March 29-April 22, 2019
A new platform focused on Southeast Asian modern and contemporary art
Gillman Barracks, Singapore
January 23-27, 2019
Bespoke: Artist Talk and Public Conversation
2110 Blue Ridge Road
Raleigh, NC 27607
Friday, January 18, 2019
7:00 PM
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
August 15, 2018
North Carolina Museum of Art Blog
"I, Buffalo Explores the American Narrative"
A review of my painting in the North Carolina Museum of Art's Permanent Collection by Tori Gernert-Dott
September 20, 2018
Studio Visit with Maria Britton
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