Nguyễn Thúy Hằng

Nguyễn Thúy-Hằng (b. 1978 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) is an artist and writer from Vietnam, who combines various art forms in her work. She is known for her unique ability to excel in both literature and visual arts.

 

Her first trilogy, Current Times, Good Sensations, and Reasonable Insanity, written during a two-year adventure in the United States, was published by Knowledge Publisher and Young Publisher, Hanoi, 2006, and became a phenomenon in the country.

 

Her paintings and sculptures reflect the sentiments embedded in her writing, while her short stories create imaginative spaces where her visual arts can take on more cryptic shapes through text. Nguyễn Thúy-Hằng's experiences growing up in post-war Vietnam, as well as her education and practice in the US and Vietnam, inform her work. She diverges from the predominant style of socialist realism in Vietnam and tackles hidden taboos in society.

 

Thúy-Hằng's works have been widely exhibited and collected, both nationally and internationally. Some of the selected exhibitions: Land(e)scape, Galerie BAO, Paris, France, (2023); Histoire d'un voyage: sand in my ears, adrift of the world, The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre, HCMC, Vietnam, (2017); On the stream, The Third Kunming Art Biennale, Kunming Fine Arts Art Museum, China, (2016); SHE, Sweet Art-Ugly Duck Gallery, London, United Kingdom, (2016); solo exhibition The Warriors, CDEF Funds and Post Vidai Collection, Saigon Domaine, Saigon, Vietnam, (2015); The Walker, British Council, City Fine Arts Museum, HCMC, Vietnam, (2013); The Gang, Viet Art Center, Hanoi, Vietnam, (2008).