Dogma Prize

Deadline for application: 11 pm, 31 Jan 2025

From Dogma Collection

Dogma Collection is pleased to invite applications for the 2025 Dogma Prize.

Now in its twelfth year, the Dogma Prize seeks to build connections between historic and present-day artistic production and support the vibrant contemporary art scene in Vietnam and around the region. Dogma encourages applications from artists across a wide range of mediums
and perspectives.

Though in past years the Prize has solicited applications focused around a theme, for this edition Dogma welcomes applications from any artist whose practices are responsive to their time and context. The 2025 Dogma Prize is open to all artists, with no limits on age, who are based out of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. Applicants may work across mediums such as but are not limited to drawing, printing, installation, painting, photography, digital art, literature, sculpture, video, and mixed media.

Selected by a jury, awardees will receive a prize of 40,000,000 dong (around 1,500 USD). They will also receive mentorship and support toward an exhibition at Dogma’s Gallery in HCMC, Vietnam, in Fall 2025.

To apply, please send the following materials as one PDF to [email protected] by 11 PM Vietnam time on January 31, 2025:
– A statement that describes your artist practice (around 600 words)
– A portfolio that contains maximum 10 items that may include:
+ Images
+ Audio files (a clip of not more than 10 minutes)
+ Videos (a clip of not more than 10 minutes)

Meet the jury

Pamela Nguyễn Corey

Pamela Nguyen Corey researches and teaches modern and contemporary art history, focusing on Southeast Asia within broader transnational Asian and global contexts. Prior to joining Fulbright University Vietnam in January 2021, she was an assistant professor in the History of Art & Archaeology department at SOAS University of London. Pamela has published in numerous academic journals, exhibition catalogs, and platforms for artistic and cultural commentary, and is the author of The City in Time: Contemporary Art and Urban Form in Vietnam and Cambodia (University of Washington Press, 2021). Pamela was guest co-editor of “Voice as Form,” a special issue of Oxford Art Journal (2020), which introduces material from recent research into voice, sound, and aurality in contemporary art. She is a member of the International Advisory Board for Art History (the journal of the Association for Art History, UK) and serves on research and advisory committees for National Gallery Singapore and The Flow of History: Southeast Asian Women Artists (Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong / AWARE, Paris).

Phan Thảo Nguyên

Trained as a painter, Thao Nguyen Phan is a multimedia artist whose practice encompasses video, painting, and installation. Drawing from literature, philosophy, and daily life, Phan observes ambiguous issues in social conventions and history. She started working in film when she began her MFA in Chicago. Phan exhibits internationally, with solo and group exhibitions including Pirelli HangarBiccoca (2023), Tate St Ives (2022), Venice Art Biennale (2022), Chisenhale Gallery (London, 2020); WIELS (Brussels, 2020), Rockbund Art Museum (Shanghai, 2019); Lyon Biennale (Lyon, 2019); Sharjah Biennial (Sharjah Art Foundation, 2019); Gemäldegalerie (Berlin, 2018); Dhaka Art Summit (2018); Para Site (Hong Kong, 2018); Factory Contemporary Art Centre (Ho Chi Minh City, 2017); Nha San Collective (Hanoi, 2017); and Bétonsalon (Paris, 2016), among others. She was shortlisted for the 2019 Hugo Boss Asia Art Award. In addition to her work as a multimedia artist, she is co-founder of the collective Art Labor, which explores cross-disciplinary practices and develops art projects that benefit the local community. Phan is expanding her “theatrical fields”, including what she calls performance gestures and moving images. Phan is a 2016-2017 Rolex Protégée, mentored by internationally acclaimed, New York-based, performance and video artist, Joan Jonas.

Bill Nguyễn

Bill Nguyen (b. 1988, Vietnam) is an artist-curator committed to the researching and development of locally-driven modes of curatorial
articulation and artistic practice. After obtaining his BFA at Nottingham Trent University (UK), Bill returned home and has become an active member of the cultural landscape of Vietnam. Through various formats of artistic practices, including performance art, creative writing and curatorial pursuits, he delves into themes such as intimacy, foreignness, cultural contiguity and historical truth. Bill has collaborated with artist-run spaces such as Nha San Collective and Hanoi Doclab, while also founding alternative platforms for curatorial experimentation and audience engagement including Manzi Art Space and Curatorial Xa Quan. Bill previously served as a member of the curatorial team at The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre. In January 2022, he assumed the role of Director of Nguyen Art Foundation. He is an alumnus of the 8th Berlin Biennial Young Curators Workshop, as well as the CuratorsLAB initiated by the Goethe Institut South East Asia. Some of his notable curatorial projects include No more, not yet (2023), Artist Excellence Award (2021–ongoing), We’re in this, together – a Pollination project (2018), Spirit of Friendship (2017) and 0395A.ĐC (2017).