UNC art professor named among ‘100 artists to watch’

Hong-An Truong, an assistant professor of art in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences, was named one of the “100 artists to watch” in the December 2011/January 2012 issue of Modern Painters magazine.

Modern Painters is a magazine published in New York City that covers international contemporary art and culture.

Truong has been an artist-in-residence at the Center for Photography at Woodstock and the Visual Studies Workshop. Her photographs and videos have been shown at the Godwin-Ternbach Museum in Queens, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Laguna Art Museum, DobaeBacsa Gallery in Seoul, Art in General in New York, and PAVILION in Bucharest, among other places.

In 2010, she was included in the group show, “Perspectives: Carol Bove, Lena Herzog, Matthew Porter, Ed Templeton, Hong-An Truong,” at the International Center for Photography in New York.

At UNC, Truong has received a Faculty Research Grant, the James Moeser Research Award and an Institute for the Arts and Humanities Creative Campus Fellowship.

Truong received her MFA from the University of California, Irvine, and was a studio fellow in the Whitney Independent Study Program.

For more on Truong, visit http://www.hongantruong.com. For information on UNC’s art department, visit http://art.unc.edu.