The Propeller Group
The Propeller Group was formed in 2006 by artists Phunam Thuc Ha (b. 1974, Vietnam) and Tuan Andrew Nguyen (b. 1976, Vietnam), who were later joined by Matt Lucero (b. 1976, US) in 2008. Aiming to cross the boundaries of contemporary art and mainstream media, the collective is dedicated to developing original creative content, employing strategies from advertising and marketing to combine seemingly contradictory phenomena: popular culture and politics, history and future, and public and private. Based in both HCMC, Vietnam and Los Angeles, US their work often incorporates collaborations with other artists in order to foster a critical and questioning global practice integrated with local idiosyncrasies.
The Propeller Group’s notable exhibitions include Illuminated Curiosities, Nguyễn Art Foundation, HCMC, Vietnam, 2022; Is It an Art Collective or a Vietnamese Ad Agency? Yes and Yes, San José Museum of Art, California, US, 2018; The Picture Will Still Exist, MoT+++, HCMC, Vietnam, 2017; The Living Need Light, The Dead Need Music, James Cohan Gallery, New York, US, 2016; the 56th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, 2015; No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US, 2013; Six Lines of Flight, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California, US, 2012; The Unseen, the 4th Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China, 2012; and Made in L.A. 2012, the 1st Los Angeles Biennial, Hammer Museum, California, US, 2012. Their works are held in many prestigious international collections, such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, US; Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, US; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Burger Collection, Hong Kong, Hong Kong; and the Singapore Art Museum, Singapore, among others.