Sung Tieu, born in Hai Duong, Vietnam, is a Berlin-based visual artist. She studied fine arts at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg, and at Goldsmiths College, London. She also completed a postgraduate program at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Her multidisciplinary exhibitions combine sculpture, drawing, text, sound and video to interrogate mechanisms of control and their psychological effects. Her work combines extensive research with autobiographical elements to examine both personal and institutional structures.

At Villa Aurora, Sung Tieu will be working on a sound installation that takes up the theme of fracking.
Data from the online database FracFocus will be artistically processed and transformed into acoustic information that also appeals to the listener on a visual level.

Selected Exhibitions
2024 | Without Full Disclosure, Museum für Gegenwartskünste Siegen
2023/2024 | One Thousand Times, Kunsthalle Nürnberg and Kunst Museum Winterthur (traveling exhibition)
2023 | Infra-Specter, Amant, New York
2022–2024 | Civic Floor, Mudam, Luxembourg; MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA; Oakville Galleries, Toronto; Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge (traveling exhibition)
2020 | In Cold Print, Nottingham Contemporary
2020 | Zugzwang, Haus der Kunst, Munich

Selected Awards
2024 | Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research in collaboration with KW Institute for Contemporary Art
2024 | Rubens Prize Promotional Award of the City of Siegen in collaboration with Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Germany
2021 | Audience Award of the Preis der Nationalgalerie, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin