Truong Cong Tung (b. 1986, based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) grew up in Dak Lak among diverse ethnic communities in Vietnam’s Central Highlands. 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. Truong 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.

Truong Cong Tung has exhibited extensively both in Vietnam and internationally, as a solo artist and as part of the Art Labor Collective. Selected solo exhibitions include: “Day Wanes… Night Waxes”, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburger (2025); “Trail Dust”, Canal Projects, New York (2024); “The Disoriented Garden… A Breath of Dream” at Sàn Art, Ho Chi Minh City (2023); Sa Sa Art Project, Phnom Penh (2024); Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok (2024), and MUSEION, Bolzano (2024), supported by the Han Nefkens Foundation, where he won the Southeast Asian Video Art Production Grant 2023.

His work has also been featured in The 11th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, Australia (2024), “Cloud Chamber” Para Site, Hong Kong (2024); “The Spirits of Maritime Crossing”, organized by the Bangkok Art Biennale Foundation as a Collateral Event of the 60th Venice Biennale (2024). 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” at Sàn Art, Ho Chi Minh City (2019); “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); “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).

Truong’s work has been collected by MUSEION, Italy; Kadist Art Foundation, Paris and San Francisco; Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland; The Nguyen Art Foundation, Vietnam; The Outpost Arts Organization, Vietnam; Post Vidai, Vietnam and Switzerland; Aura Contemporary Art Foundation, Japan, and others.