THAO NGUYEN PHAN
Visual artist
Born, 1987 in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam
Lives and works in Ho Chi Minh city

Education

2014
MFA in Painting and Drawing, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA

2009
Bachelor of Fine Arts with First Class honors, Lasalle College of Arts, Singapore

2005-2008
Ho Chi Minh University of Fine Arts, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Selected Exhibitions

2022
The 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, The Milk of Dreams, Venice, Italy
Thao Nguyen Phan, Tate St Ives, Cornwall, UK (solo)

2021
Within / Between / Beneath / Upon, The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Carnivalesca, What Painting Might Be, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Germany

2020
Mending the Sky, New Orleans Museum of Art, USA

Becoming Alluvium, Chisenhale gallery, London (solo)
Monsoon Melody, Han Nefkens Art Foundation and WIELS, Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
Mending the Sky, New Orleans Museum of Art, USA

2019
Becoming Alluvium, Han Nefkens Art Foundation – Loop Barcelona video art award, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain (solo)
Hugo Boss Asia Art Award, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Neither Black / Red / Yellow Nor Woman, Times Art Center Berlin
Art Encounters Biennial 2019, Timișoara, Romania
Lyon Biennale 2019, Where Water Comes Together with Other Water, Lyon, France
Where The Sea Remembers, The Mistake Room, Los Angeles, USA
Sharjah Art Biennale 14, “Leaving the Echo Chamber” in “Journey beyond the arrow”, curated by Zoe Butt

2018
Poetic Amnesia, Rolex Arts Weekend, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany (solo)
Constructing Mythologies, Edouard Malingue gallery, Hongkong
A Beast, a God and a Line, Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh, Para Site, Hongkong and Museum of Contemporary Art, Warsaw
Relics, Jendela visual arts space, Esplanade, Singapore

2017
Poetic Amnesia, Curated by Zoe Butt, the Factory Contemporary Art Centre, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and Nha San Collective, Hanoi, Vietnam (solo)

2016
Embedded South(s), online exhibition of moving images, sponsored by San Art and the Prince Claus fund.
Anywhere but Here, Betonsalon, Paris, France
Workshop at Foundation Botin, Santander, Spain

2015
Un-romantic Memories, curated by Kim Jihye, Lotus Gallery, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
Concept Context Contestation, Art and the Collective in South East Asia, travelling exhibition, Goethe Institut, Hanoi, Vietnam

2014
Tầm Tã, curated by Trần Lương, Ha Noi Fine Arts University Museum, Hanoi, Vietnam
Modern Love, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, curated by Bala Starr and Khairuddin Hori, Singapore
Mekong Platform, Milan Image Art and Design fair, curated by Loredana Paracciani, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
Vietnam Now: Changing Society, Canvas International Art, Amsterdam
NhaSan 15+, NhaSan Studio, Hanoi, Vietnam

2013
Concept Context Contestation, Art and the Collective in South East Asia, Bangkok Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand (catalog)
I-CAMP, Muong Ethnology museum, Hoa Binh, Vietnam
Right Fiction, San Art, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
New Work Show , Sullivan Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA
The Fifth Wall, Sullivan Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA

2012
Ở, Recent Works by Artists of Vietnamese Heritage, Basespace gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA
RIAP International Performance Art Festival, Quebec, Canada
Riverscapes in Flux, a travelling exhibition to Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia and Philippines, organized by the Goethe Institute, Hanoi, Vietnam (catalog)

2011
‘Open Edit’ Mobile library, collaborated with Truong Cong Tung, San Art and Asia Art Archive, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

2010
Naptime Noise, L’usine gallery, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

2009
Intersection Vietnam, new works form North and South, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Singapore and Malaysia (catalog)

2008
Two Coats of Paint, Praxis Space, Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore
Ket Noi, Singapore Art Museum and Post Museum, Singapore

2007
Young Artist Festival, Hanoi, Vietnam (catalog)
NIPAF International Performance Art Festival, Tokyo, Nagano and Nagoya, Japan (catalog)

Awards & Residencies

2019
One of the four special mentions of Sharjah Biennale 14 prize, Sharjah, UAE

2018
Han Nefkens Foundation – LOOP Barcelona Video Art Award 2018, in collaboration with the Fundació Joan Miró.
Grand Prize, APB Foundation Signature Art Prize, National Museum of Singapore, organized by Singapore Art Museum, Singapore

2016-2017
Rolex Mentor and Protege in Visual Arts, mentored by Joan Jonas

2017
NTU CCA Residency, NTU Center for Contemporary Art, Singapore

2016
Visual Arts Workshop in Botín Foundation, lead by Joan Jonas, Santander, Spain

2014
CDEF Grant

2013
San Art Laboratory Artist in Residency program, San Art, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

2012
Incentive Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

2011
Incentive Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
First place, general category, Union League Civic & Arts foundation, Chicago

2010
Presidential Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago