Winnie Truong is a Toronto artist who uses dioramas, drawing, animation and other techiques to explore ideas of identity, feminism, and fantasy. Her focus is landscapes and the natural world.
She is on exhibition in Curious Nature at Calgary Contemporary from April 10 through Aug. 25. This solo show includes her mixed media dioramas, new sculptural forms, stop motion animations and a site-specific wall installation.
This work (below, from Winnie Truong’s Instagram, here) is a great way to examine her artistry close up. It was produced for an article on bees by Kate Barss in Maisonneuve magazine.
Winnie Truong’s website, here.
Her Instagram, here.
Curious Nature exhibition page, Contemporary Calgary, here.
Previous Art Junkie posts on Winnie Truong, here
A good interview that covers here technique in The Kit, here.
Winnie Truong, a Fine Art graduate of OCAD University, has exhibited across Canada, the US and Europe with solo shows at Volta New York Art Fair, Pulse Miami Art Fair and Art Toronto. Truong is a 2017 recipient of the Chalmers Arts Fellowship. Her work can be found in private collections, The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas, Doris McCarthy Gallery at the University of Toronto, Bank of Denmark, EQ Bank, Scotiabank Fine Art Collection, RBC Art Collection and TD Bank Corporate Art Collection.
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Beautiful.