In the Studio with Truc Truong, two fab pets and a mass of toys

In a bustling Kent Town studio – surrounded by colourful stuffed toys and an eclectic collection of materials and artworks – Truc Truong reveals how art became her saviour during a dark time, and her excitement at the opportunity offered by a mentorship that will add new skills to her practice.

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Thinking in colour with Truc Truong

Between old soft toys, giant intestines, tins of condensed milk and golden Salomons, Truc Truong explores questions of power. 

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Inside Our Jan/Feb 2024 Issue

In a special issue to start the new year, our cover artist Truc Truong is one of our ‘10 Artists to Watch in 2024’!

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2023 ACE Studio Program artist: Truc Truong Interview

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New wave: Artists from ACE’s Studios: 2023, Part 2

Following our story on Adelaide Contemporary Experimental’s annual Studio Program, we check in with the final two artists to see how their practices and careers have evolved during their time at ACE. You can see the work of all of this year’s artists in Studios: 2023 co-curated by ACE associate curator Rayleen Forester and Murray Art Museum Albury curator Nanette Orly.

Primavera 2023: Young Australian Artists is guest curated by Talia Smith, who considers what artists are creating to challenge society’s prescribed structures.
Through works of various media, including installation, video, painting, sculpture, mark-making and text, the six artists – Tiyan Baker (b. 1989, Garramilla/Darwin), Christopher Bassi (b. 1990, Meanjin/Brisbane), Moorina Bonini (b. 1996, Naarm/Melbourne), Nikki Lam (b. 1988, Hong Kong), Sarah Poulgrain (b. 1992, Thul Garrie Waja/Townsville) and Truc Truong (b. 1987, Tarndanya/Adelaide) – draw on their lived experience to disrupt the dynamics of power and deliver compelling alternatives to the status quo.

For Primavera, Emerging Australian Artists Propose New Paths
On the shores of Gadigal Country/Sydney, six emerging artists—Tiyan Baker, Christopher Bassi, Moorina Bonini, Nikki Lam, Sarah Poulgrain, and Truc Truong—highlight the inequalities, compromises, and complexities of the world today through their engagement with alternate models for living and working.

Green Room
Adelaide Contemporary Experimental has announced the line-up of artists selected for its 2023 Studio Program, which offers rent-free CBD-based studio space plus professional development opportunities for those selected. This year’s studio artists are Teresa Busuttil (Helpmann Academy Studio Residency), Georgia Button (Adelaide Central School of Art Residency), Brad Darkson, Jennifer Mathews and Truc Truong (read more about each of the artists here).⁠ As part of the program, they will produce new work for ACE’s annual studio artist exhibition.

Faces to watch in 2023
Spanning food, sport, fashion, community and more, we asked the people we’re anticipating big things from in 2023 about their road to success and the bumps along the way.

Punk, proud and loud
From cakes exploding with saccharine colour to pig intestines pinched by koala clips, emerging artist Truc Truong uses a trove of textural mediums to explore the forces of power in Australian society.

Interview #176
In early 2020, Truc was artist in residence at Hyphenated Projects in Melbourne’s West. This interview is the first in a series by Jinghua Qian, the Liminal x Hyphenated Projects Writing Fellow.

Truc speaks to Jinghua about intestines, assimilation, and the unique malaise of the second-generation migrant.

4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art presents hai con lân việt kiều
the first solo exhibition of emerging Vietnamese-Australian artist Truc Truong...By reinventing the costume, Truong delves into the tradition of lion dancing and how the cultural ritual has come to reflect the diasporic nature of multicultural Australian identities.

Imagine: Truc Truong
Truc Truong is a talented artist with an unwavering voice. Since graduating with a Bachelor's in Contemporary Art, Truc has been selected for the Helpmann Academy Graduate Exhibition (2020) and is a resident at Hyphenated Projects (2020). As well as undertaking Honours in Art and Design (2020), Truc has blazingly erupted into the art scene. Through all these triumphs though, Truc has struggled with mental health issues, particularly relating to racism and cultural identity as a second-generation Vietnamese Australian, born and raised in Adelaide. It is these struggles which she explores through much of her art. 

Work of Art
Truong’s work Unicorn Land features in the 2020 Helpmann Academy Graduate Exhibition and explores themes of identity, family, and assimilation.

Turning the spotlight on cultural identity through art
Fresh off graduation and already making waves in the art world, Truc Truong has been involved in a string of prestigious exhibitions where her poignant exploration of racism and cultural identity is threaded throughout each piece. Her thoughtful installations and sculptures are massive undertakings, often manifesting the struggles and importance of representation through stories retold by her family.