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Phan Thao Nguyen

Thao Nguyen Phan (b. 1987, Vietnam) is a multimedia artist who graduated with from the Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore in 2009, before receiving her MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA in 2013. Drawing from literature, philosophy and daily life, Thao Nguyen observes ambiguous issues in social conventions, history and tradition. She exhibits internationally, with solo and group exhibitions at Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, Italy, 2023–2024; Tate St Ives, Cornwall, UK, 2022; WIELS, Brussels, Belgium, 2020; Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China, 2019; Lyon Biennale, Lyon, France, 2019; Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE, 2019; Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany, 2018; Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh, 2018; Para Site, Hong Kong, 2018; The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre, HCMC, Vietnam 2017; and Nha San Collective, Hanoi, Vietnam, 2017, among many others.

Thao Nguyen is a 2016–2017 Rolex Protégée, and was shortlisted for the 2019 Hugo Boss Asia Art Award. In addition to her work as a multimedia artist, she is a co-founder of the collective Art Labor, with artist Truong Cong Tung and curator Arlette Quynh-Anh Tran, which explores cross disciplinary practices and develops art projects that benefit local communities.

Studio Visit with Phan Thao Nguyen

In this interview, Thao Nguyen Phan expresses the desire to construct fictional yet genuine narratives that have the power to combine and convey her various passions in art, history, literature and ecology. Ambience, form, color and rhythm – across her usage of different mediums and materials, Thao Nguyen seeks to create such “emotional impressions” in her storytelling, both as a way to connect and bring to light obscure or displaced historical information, and an attempt to find her own perspective and go beyond mainstream discourses.

This video is part of a series of interviews by Nguyễn Art Foundation.