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Artists
Thuan Vu (he/him/his) b. 1973, Saigon, Vietnam
Thuan Vu is an awarding winning artist and professor at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven, CT. His paintings examine constructions of identity, especially those of Vietnamese refugees and minority populations. He is the recipient of numerous awards, has lectured nationally, and has had over 15 solo exhibitions. In 2020, he was the sole painter to receive the Artistic Excellence Award by the Connecticut Office of the Arts.
Antonius-Tín Bui (they/them/their's) b. 1992, Bronx, NY
Antonius-Tín Bui is a multidisciplinary artist whose work traverses the realms of hand-cut paper, community engagement, performance, and soft sculpture to visualize hybrid identities and histories that confront the unsettling present. Their hybridized identity as a queer, genderfluid, Vietnamese-American informs the way they employ beauty as a refuge for fellow marginalized communities.
They received their BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and has had their work exhibited in several solo and group exhibitions, including at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC (2019). They have received numerous fellowships and awards including The Outwin Boochever Prize (2021) and MICA Alumni Grant (2018).
Quyên Trương (she/her/hers) b. 1983, Saigon, Vietnam
Quyên Trương earned her Bachelor's in Visual Arts at Brown University. Inspired by human stories, social movements, and migration patterns such as those in the Vietnamese diaspora, Quyên’s artwork is informed by her perspectives as a refugee. She is particularly interested in the ways in which art can create spaces for meaningful discourse. The paintings she created to elucidate her father's seven years of imprisonment in Vietnamese Re-Education Camps have been integrated into the Choices Program at Brown University as part of a national curricula to teach students about unintended consequences of war.
Thu Tran (he/him/his) b. 1940, Thái Bình, Vietnam
Thu Tran, born Trần Ngọc Thu, graduated from the Vietnam University of Fine Arts in Saigon, Vietnam. He emigrated to Ottawa, Canada, before moving to Connecticut where he now resides. A sculptor and painter, Tran has exhibited at Fairfield's Kershner Gallery (2019); Kanata Civic Art Gallery, Ottawa; Ron Maslin Playhouse, Ottawa; and Pinhey's Point Monohouse & Art Festival, Malacak Centre, Ottawa.
Kenny Nguyen (he/him/his) b. 1990, BenTre Province, Vietnam
Born in Vietnam, Kenny Nguyen moved to the U.S. in 2010. After art school, he spent his early career in fashion. Working with silk has ties for the artist not only to dressmaking and patterns, but also long-standing associations to the material through his culture. He considers his process a reflection of his identity: a hybrid blending of cultures and ideas which bring to light how identity constantly changes over time and creates beauty and versatility.
His works have been exhibited at numerous institutions and art fairs including Sejong Museum of Art, Czong Institue for Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea, LaGrange Art Museum, GA, Florida State University Museum of Fine Art FL, Brownsville Museum of Fine Art TX, Capitol Hill Building D.C., Katzen Art Center at the American University D.C., Orange County Center for Contemporary Art CA, London Art Fair, Art Miami Fair, among others.
He has received an Excellence Asia Contemporary Young Artist
Award from Sejong Museum of Art (2016), Artist Residency
Fellowships from the Ragdale Foundation, Chicago, IL, The Hambidge
Center, GA, Vermont Studio Center, VT, Gil Artist Residency, Akureyri,
Iceland, Château d’Orquevaux, Orquevaux, France, AIR Guidiguada Gran
Canaria, Spain, a 2020 Rising Star award from Saatchi Art ("one of thirty-five ‘Best Young Artists to Collect’ under the age of thirty-five from around the world").
Quỳnh Lâm (she/her/hers) b. 1988, Saigon, Vietnam
Quỳnh Lâm is an interdisciplinary artist and Fulbright scholar with a background in architecture, working on conceptual and archival projects.
Lâm has created a diverse body of work in performance, video, painting, and installation, that highlights the tensions between personal and collective memory, particularly the experiences of herself as a Vietnamese woman both in Vietnam and abroad.
She is the winner of the 2023 exchange program of the Leipzig International Art Programme, juried by the City of Leipzig, Sàn Art and Deutsch Vietnamesisches Haus. She is also a winner of the 2021 American Austrian Foundation Prize for Fine Arts; a recipient of the Special Jury Prize (selected by Miyatsu Daisuke) of the 2019 Art Future Prize Taiwan; a presenter at the international conference “ReVIEWING Black Mountain College 11”; and artist fellow at Ragdale Foundation (Illinois, USA), Hambidge Center for Creative Arts & Sciences (Georgia, USA); Oak Spring Garden Foundation (Virginia, USA), and School of Visual Art (NYC, USA).
Lâm exhibits internationally; some highlights include The Factory Contemporary Arts Center (Ho Chi Minh City), Art Formosa (Taipei), The Vincom Center for Contemporary (Hanoi), Richard Koh Fine Art Gallery (Singapore), Gallery ONKAF (New Delhi), Mana Contemporary (New Jersey, Chicago, Miami) – in partnership with CADAF (Contemporary & Digital Art Fair), Stamford Arts Center (Singapore), Museum of Contemporary Art Nashville (MOCAN), Palazzo Costanzi Museum (Trieste), Moggio Udinese – Fondazione Friuli (Udine), and Museo Civico di Casa Maccari (Gradisca). More recently, her performances have taken place at London Gallery Weekend (Cromwell Place - A.I. Gallery London) and Berlin Art Week (ifa Gallery Berlin).
Hồng-Ân Trương (she/her/hers) b. 1976, Gainesville, Florida
Hồng-Ân Trương is an artist who primarily uses photography and video to explore immigrant, refugee, and decolonial narratives and subjectivities. Her work engages with the concept that politics is the struggle for equal recognition within society, with aesthetics at the core of this battle. Starting with the premise that memory is political, her projects examine structures of time, memory, and the production of knowledge by engaging with archival materials, individual and collective narratives, and histories that span cultural and national borders.
Her work has been shown in both solo and group exhibitions including at the International Center for Photography (NY), Art in General (NY), Fundación PROA (Buenos Aires), Istanbul Modern (Istanbul, Turkey), City Gallery (Wellington, New Zealand), Smack Mellon (NY), the Nasher Museum of Art (Durham, NC), The Kitchen (NY), Nhà Sàn (Hanoi), the Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin, Ireland), among others.
She has been the recipient of the 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship, 2013 Art Matters Grant, a Franconia Sculpture Park Jerome Fellowship, and a Socrates Sculpture Park Emerging Artist Fellowship. She was an artist-in-residence at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in 2015.