Finest Artist Nominees: Đoàn Văn Tới
ĐOÀN VĂN TỚI
Year of birth: 1989
Field: Visual art
About the artists: Đoàn Văn Tới was born in 1989 in Hải Phòng City and currently lives and works in Hanoi. He graduated from the Vietnam University of Fine Arts in 2017, where he majored in painting. His artistic practice focuses on paintings using diverse materials such as silk, oil painting and mixed media. He has an interest for landscapes, especially the vast fields and how personal and collective memories are conveyed through them, using colour palettes, mixed media and a very personal way of creating the painting surface. Notable exhibitions he participated in include the International Watercolour Exhibition IWS in Hanoi (2015), International Art Festival in Pulau Ketam, Malaysia (2016), the exhibition “Đồng chất” (Homogeneity) at Ho Chi Minh City Museum of Fine Arts, and the exhibition “ƯƠM” within the framework of the Young Artists Incubation Programme 2019 by Vincom Center for Contemporary Art (VCCA).
Remarkable activities/projects in 2020 – 2022: In 2022, he had a solo exhibition titled “Gate Gate” at the Indochine House Art Gallery and participated in the exhibition “Homeland” at Christie’s London.
HANOI GRAPEVINE’s FINEST is an annual event that honors contemporary art projects in Vietnam. The event is organized and nominated by Hanoi Grapevine and the general audience.
The event aims to honor individuals, organizations, creative art projects & activities as well as artists who are 35 or younger who have made impacts on the community in order to encourage the development of local creative arts, to promote greater communication and to further spread the influence of art and culture in the community.
In an effort to give the most comprehensive and objective view, HANOI GRAPEVINE’s FINEST always offers different formats in each edition. This year, Hanoi Grapevine’s Finest 2023 is divided into two major categories: Honouring and Recognition.
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