Quynh Nguyen
Founder
Quynh Nguyen is a prominent businesswoman and dedicated patron of the arts and education. Since 1995, she has been the founder and CEO of Viet Huong JSC, a leading flavour and fragrance company in Vietnam. Her commitment to education began in 2007 with the co-founding of the Renaissance International School Saigon. In 2014, she established the International Modern Art Gallery (IMA Gallery) in Houston, Texas, where she also served as director. Upon her return to Vietnam, she co-founded the EMASI Schools, where the arts are integral to the schools’ missions and curricula. In 2018, she marked a significant milestone by establishing Nguyen Art Foundation (NAF), an initiative focused on fostering opportunities and platforms for artists and art professionals.
Bill Nguyen
Director
Bill Nguyen (b. 1988, Vietnam) is an artist-curator committed to the researching and development of locally-driven modes of curatorial articulation and artistic practice. After obtaining his BFA at Nottingham Trent University (UK), Bill returned to home and has become an active member of the cultural landscape of Vietnam. Through various formats of artistic practices, including performance art, creative writing and curatorial pursuits, he delves into themes such as intimacy, foreignness, cultural contiguity and historical truth. Bill has collaborated with artist-run spaces such as Nha San Collective and Hanoi Doclab, while also founding alternative platforms for curatorial experimentation and audience engagement including Manzi Art Space and Curatorial Xa Quan. Bill previously served as a member of the curatorial team at The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre. In January 2022, he assumed the role of Director of Nguyen Art Foundation. He is an alumnus of the 8th Berlin Biennial Young Curators Workshop, as well as the CuratorsLAB initiated by the Goethe Institut South East Asia. Some of his notable curatorial projects include No more, not yet (2023), Artist Excellence Award (2021–ongoing), We’re in this, together – a Pollination project (2018), Spirit of Friendship (2017) and 0395A.ĐC (2017)
Nhat Q. Vo
Manager
Nhat Q. Vo (b. 1991, Vietnam) is a cultural worker and multidisciplinary designer based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He graduated with a Bachelor in Architecture from California College of the Arts, San Francisco (2015). With an interest in creating education playgrounds and pushing for cultural, artistic developments in Vietnam, his works range from event and space organization to coordination, production, and curation. He often collaborates with individuals and organizations in Vietnam and across Southeast Asia. In 2018, Nhat participated in Bangkok Biennale with Art Labor as a collaborating architect for the project Radicle Room. With the support from Goethe-Institut Ho Chi Minh City and Sàn Art, he released the publication Masked Force with writer Nguyen Hoang Quyen in tandem with a retrospective of Vo An Khanh’s photographic practice (2020). Recently, he curated the exhibition Rhyming Gestures with Thái Hà and initiated PORTFOLIO+ – a series of portfolio review sessions to help local creatives effectively present and develop their portfolios. Nhat is the former manager of Sàn Art and current manager of the Nguyen Art Foundation.
Vicky Do
Curator
Vicky Do was born and grew up in Saigon, studied and worked in other foreign places before returning to Saigon, where she has been working as an artist-curator for almost 10 years. Her artistic works explore the themes of conflicts and the displacement of (non)human species, the politics of urban planning on everyday life, and the multidimensionality of historical discourses. As a curator, she explores various modes of exhibition-making and knowledge-creation; she aims for a more critical, multidisciplinary curatorial practice.
Vicky has worked with several artist-curator collectives, such as Floating Projects (HK), Archive of the People (HK), Chaosdowntown (VN), Đường Chạy (VN), and Sàn Art (VN). She joined Nguyen Art Foundation in 2025.