Nguyen Trinh Thi – Winner of Best Emerging Artist Using Digital/Video – 2016 Prudential Eye Awards
Vietnamese artist Nguyen Trinh Thi (b. 1973) won in the category of Best Emerging Artist Using Digital/Video of the 2016 Prudential Eye Awards. The awards ceremony was held on January 20 in Marina Bay Sands, Singapore.
Launched in 2014, the prestigious annual Awards recognises the best emerging Asian contemporary artists as well as the leading exhibitions, galleries, institutions and art critics working to promote Asian contemporary art.
The third edition of the Prudential Eye Awards featured ten Awards, with five categories of Best Emerging Artist, using various mediums including digital/video, installation, painting, photography and sculpture.
Hanoi-based artist Nguyen Trinh Thi won the Best Emerging Artist award in the category of digital/video.
Nguyen Trinh Thi is an independent filmmaker and video/media artist. Her diverse practice has consistently investigated the role of memory in the necessary unveiling of hidden, displaced or misinterpreted histories; and examined the position of artists in the Vietnamese society.
She is founder and director of Hanoi DOCLAB, an independent center for documentary film and the moving image art in Hanoi since 2009.
Accompanying the awards is a public exhibition at ArtScience Museum which will run from 16 January to 27 March 2016. The exhibition will shine the spotlight on 39 works from the 15 shortlisted artists for the Prudential Eye Awards in the following categories: Digital/Video, Installation, Painting, Sculpture and Photography.
Some screenshots from video “Letters from Panduranga” (2015) by Nguyen Trinh Thi:
Nguyen Trinh Thi studied journalism, photography, international relations and ethnographic film in the United States. Her films and video art works have been shown at festivals and art exhibitions across Asia, Europe, and the USA – including Jeu de Paume, Paris; CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux; the Lyon Biennale 2015; Asian Art Biennial 2015, Taiwan; Fukuoka Asian Art Triennial 2014; Singapore Biennale 2013; Jakarta Biennale 2013; Oberhausen International Film Festival; Bangkok Experimental Film Festival; Artist Films International; DEN FRIE Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen; and Kuandu Biennale, Taipei.
