HOANG DUONG CAM
Visual artist
Born in 1974 in Hanoi, Vietnam
Lives and works in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Miscellany
From 2012: Founding member of Xem publication
Member of Mogas Station, a Vietnam-based artists’ collective (2006 – 2008)
Co-founder of Vietnam Visual Arts, a non-profit information website on contemporary art worldwide (2002 – 2005)
Education
1996
Graduated from the Hanoi Fine Arts University
Selected exhibitions
2018
“With a necessary dose of surrealism to go through the spaces between men”, Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (solo)
“The Cloud Atlas”, Francois Schneider Foundation, Wattwiller, France
“Alluvium”, Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
2017
“Spaces between men”, Affinity ART Gallery, Hong Kong (solo)
“Sunshower: Contemporary Arts from Southeast Asia 1980s to Now”, Mori Art Museum and The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
“The Picture Will Still Exist, selected works from Post Vidai”, Dia Project, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
2016
“Between Two Mysteries”, Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (solo)
“Mirror-writing”, Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
“Vietnam Eye: Contemporary Vietnamese Art”, Casa Italia, Hanoi, Vietnam
2015
“1972-2015: Works by Hoang Duong Cam and Trong Gia Nguyen”, Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Asia Now, Galerie Quynh, Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris, France (solo)
“olio. v2”, Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
“Eagles Fly, Sheep Flock: Biographical Imprints – Artistic Practices in Southeast Asia”, curated by Khim Ong for Art Stage Singapore: Southeast Asia Platforms, Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre, Singapore
2014
“Being Present”, Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
“In the shadow of appearances”, Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
“Freedom is the motorbike”, Long Beach City College Art Gallery, Long Beach, CA, USA
“Vietnam Now: Changing Society”, Canvas International Art, Amsterdam, Netherlands
“Onward and Upward”, Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
2013
“The day before the Renaissance!, Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (solo)
“Electronic Pacific”, SOMArts, San Francisco, California, USA
2012
“Tales of Chewing Gum, Noodle Soup, and Other Stories”, Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (solo)
“Picture This”, Tolla Duke Contemporary, Singapore (solo)
“Revealed Concealed: Altered Icons”, Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
“To Bring the World into the World”, curated by Biljana Ciric for Gendai Gallery, InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre, Toronto, Canada
“Subject Shall Remain Anonymous”, curated by Jason Wee, Give Art Space at Artspace@Helutrans, Singapore
Art Hong Kong 12, Galerie Quynh, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre
2011
“Ideal Fall”, Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (solo)
“Lightning in U Minh Forest”, Art Hong Kong 11, Galerie Quynh, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (solo)
“Vis-à-vis”, Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
« 36 Reasons Why We Still Need Superman”, video art touring festival curated by Tim Crowley, Centro de Investigaciones Artisticas, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Traveled to Casa Tres Patios, Medellín, Colombia and Instituto Superior de Arte, Havana, Cuba.
“EsperantoPolis”, former Colette International School, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
2010
“Representation in the meaning of a metaphor for a forest as endoscopy / links between locations”, Project Space and Spare Room Gallery, School of Art, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia (solo)
VideoZone 5, the 5th International Video Art Biennial, various galleries, Israel
Daegu Photo Biennial, Daegu, South Korea
“Connect: Art Scene Vietnam”, ifa-Galerie Stuttgart, Germany
“On Each Milestone”, Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange, Hanoi, Vietnam
“Arts and Cities”, Aichi Triennale 2010, Nagoya, Japan
“Camamoto”, Japan Foundation Exhibition Space, Hanoi, Vietnam
2009
“Connect: Art Scene Vietnam”, ifa-Galerie Berlin, Germany
“Max Art Fest 2009”, Manifest of Oblivion, Zagreb, Croatia
“Intersection Vietnam: New Works from North and South”, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore
“A Snapshot of Contemporary Vietnamese Art”, ifa gallery, Shanghai, China
“Magnetic Power”, ASEAN – Korea Contemporary Photography & Media Art Exhibition, Coreana Museum of Art and Gallery Jijihyang, Seoul, Korea
Palais Project, Vienna, Austria
« Fluid Zone », Jakarta Biennale, Jakarta, Indonesia
2008
“Olio. the year end show”, Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
“Post-Doi Moi: Vietnamese Art After 1990”, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
“Intrude: Art & Life 366”, Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
“Strategies from Within – an Exhibition of Vietnamese and Cambodian Contemporary Art Practices”, Ke Center for the Contemporary Arts, Shanghai, China
The Third Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Showcase Singapore, with Galerie Quynh, City Hall, Singapore
2007
“Projecting into the night what has gone with the dawn”, Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (solo)
2006
“Fat-free Museum”, Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (solo)
“Migration Addicts” (a collateral event of the 52nd Venice Biennale), Rokovoko by Mogas Station, Caffè Aurora, Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy
“Thermocline of Art. New Asian Waves”, ZKM I Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany
“Rokovoko” (Mogas Station), City of Expiration and Regeneration, 2007 Shenzhen- Hong Kong Biennale, Shenzhen, China
“Rokovoko” (Mogas Station), Month of Images, Ho Chi Minh City Fine Art Museum, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
“Liberation – 1st chapter of Saigon Open City”, Ho Chi Minh City Fine Art Museum, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
“Belief”, Singapore Biennale 2006, AART publication and installation by Mogas Station, Singapore
“LZ” (Mogas Station), Goethe-Institut, Hanoi, Vietnam
“LZ” (Mogas Station), Belief, Singapore Biennale 2006
2005
“Filename.disan”, Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (solo)
“Out of Context”, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, California, USA
“600 Images/60 Artists/6 Curators/6 Cities”, simultaneous exhibitions in venues in Bangkok, Berlin, Los Angeles, London, Manila and Saigon
“Who We Are”, Blue Space Contemporary Art Center and Phu My Hung, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
2004
“Best Regards and Be Resolved to Win (2002)”, Asia, Now, Gyeonggi Arts Center, Suwon City, Korea
2003
“Tree – focus from both sides”, site-specific installation, Binh Quoi Village, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
2002
“The Wedding (1999)”, ConversAsian, National Gallery, Grand Cayman Island
2001
“Square Eggs and Under the Covers”, Goethe-Institut, Hanoi, Vietnam (solo)
2000
“Speak Out/Beach Eggs”, Thanh Hoa Beach, Vietnam (solo)
“God Creates Elephants, God Creates Grass”, Nha San Duc Contemporary Art Studio, Hanoi, Vietnam
1999
“The Wedding”, Nha San Studio, Hanoi, Vietnam (solo)
“Dialogue”, Centro Cultural General San Martin, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1998
“Inhale – Exhale”, L’Atelier, Hanoi, Vietnam
1997
“Season Wind”, Hanoi Fine Arts University, Hanoi, Vietnam
Collections
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Post-Vi Dai Collection, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam/Geneva, Switzerland
The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam