HCMC – Artist Talks at San Art
Thur 15 Apr, 6 pm
San Art, HCMC
Please join us for artist’s talks with Dinh Q Le and Tuan Andrew Nguyen.
These two internationally renowned Vietnamese artists will discuss their work in the current exhibition, ‘Syntax and Diction’, including a brief overview of their overall artistic practice.
Please note: Discussion will be held in Vietnamese and English. Free event.
Dinh Q. Lê was born in Ha-Tien, Vietnam in 1968. He received his BA in Art studio at UC Santa Barbara in 1989 and his MFA in Photography and Related Media at The School of Visual Arts in New York City in 1992. In 1993, Lê returned to Vietnam and settled in Ho Chi Minh City. Much of Le’s art focuses on the history and experience of war, examining its affect on ideas of cultural memory and loss. His work has been exhibited world wide and is included in major public collections, such as the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles and The Los Angeles County Museum of Art. In June 2010, his work ‘The Farmers and the Helicopters’ will premiere at MoMA, New York. Dinh Q Le is co-founder of the Vietnam Foundation for the Arts and San Art.
Tuan Andrew Nguyen was born in Ho Chi Minh City in 1976. He returned to Ho Chí Minh City in 2004 after completing a Bachelor of Arts, from the University of California, Irvine, USA and a Master of Fine Art, from the California Institute of the Arts, USA. Examining the domination and usurpation of public space and popular symbol or stereotype, Tuan Andrew Nguyen’s conceptual art practice provokes the cultural mind-set of contemporary Vietnam. In 2005, Nguyen and fellow artist Phù Nam Thúc Hà co-founded ‘The Propeller Group’, a creative development artistic agency specializing in experimental film, music video and original television content. Nguyen’s individual and collaborative art practice has been showcased worldwide, recent projects include ‘Porcelain’ a collaborative film project with Danish collective Superflex, and inclusion of new performative/graphic work in ‘Art Paris and Guest’, France. Tuan Andrew Nguyen is also co-founder of San Art.
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