Đào Tùng
biography
Dao Tung is a multidisciplinary artist whose experiments with sound, installation and video draw heavily from his practice as a composer and sound artist. A graduate of the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City, Tung has since worked on various experimental performances and theater productions as a visual artist, composer and director, in Vietnam, as well as Korea and the US. One of his most notable theater projects is Erasable (2012), a five-act performance that sought to blur the distinction between art and the quotidian. Tung is also a founding member and organizer of the art event Nổ Cái Bùm (Hue, 2020 and Dalat, 2022), and a co-founder of Open Room and Nest Studio. In 2021, he was chosen as one of the finalists of the prestigious Dogma Prize.
Dao Tung’s works have been featured in various individual and group exhibitions, including Edge of the Citadel, Hue, Vietnam, 2022; Video Box, as part of the online SWAB Barcelona Art Fair, Barcelona, Spain, 2020; Henosis, Baik Art Seoul, Seoul, South Korea, 2018; Open Room II, Capa Studio, HCMC, Vietnam, 2016; and howdy cowboy, MoT+++, HCMC, Vietnam, 2015. In 2017, he participated in the Open Studio residency at 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA, USA.