About
Tiffany Duong (b. 2002) is a multi-media artist and illustrator based in the Greater Toronto Area. She fuses pop culture, dreams, and nostalgia with the rage, grief, and violence of her inner world; investigating her experience of womanhood and girlhood in a bratty, absurd, yet humorous manner.
She is currently enrolled at OCAD University - working towards her Bachelors of Fine Arts (Honours), majoring in Drawing and Painting with a minor in Illustration.
Tiffany's work has been featured in exhibitions across Toronto, including Youthful Vengeance, Propeller Art Gallery, and Northern Contemporary. Her work has been featured in multiple publications such as Visual Arts Journal and Empowered Phu Nu (EPN) Collective's second annual anthology. She has also contributed behind-the-scenes work to the stop motion film Zhivachka which screened at GradEx 108 and the Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF). Aside from her artistic practice, she reviews exhibitions and art events as a freelance writer for Artoronto, including the Canadian Sculpture Centre's 95th Launch and Artist Project 2024.
Recently, she has curated Propeller Art Gallery's largest exhibition to date, Small Pleasures.
Tiffany will be part of GradEx 110 at OCAD University in May 2025.
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Statement
In her practice, Tiffany conjures bratty, absurdist, and humorous images that investigate her experiences of girlhood and womanhood. Through themes of femininity, nostalgia, rage, and memory, she subverts patriarchal expectations and invites viewers into the impulses of her psyche - using cultural familiar iconography to tap into the uncensored malevolence of the human consciousness. Her work is informed by low-brow art, film, pop culture, and the whimsy of fairy-tales.
While fairy-tales were initially created to instill moral values in children, Tiffany uses these stories to instead challenge the societal, spiritual, and chemical laws that shape her adult existence within a feminist lens. Inspired by the coexistence of fantasy, play, and the natural world, she critiques the sociopolitical climate by blurring the boundaries between naturalistic and dream realities.
Tiffany works with an analog, mixed-media approach that merges the playfulness of childhood drawing methods with refined painting techniques. She specializes in small-scale paintings, invoking childhood feelings of curiosity and preciousness. She is inspired by the introspective practices of contemporary woman artists and creatives including Jenny Saville, Miriam Schapiro, Trinh T. Minh Ha, and Lee Price.