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from i’ve been here all along 2024

Select Exhibitions:

i’ve been here all along, solo open photography studio Manzi Art Space Hanoi 2024

trầnsfiguration: Group show, Slash Art, San Francisco, CA – curated by Việt Lê, 2023

Remission: New Photography From Hanoi, curator, Manzi Art Space, The Outpost, Hanoi 2023

Second Opinion: New Photography From Hanoi, curator, Manzi Art Space, Hanoi, 2018

In A Green Island – 5 channel video installation – Nha San Collective, Hanoi, 2017; Into Thin Air, AR Group show, Manzi Art Space, Hanoi 2018 (0ngoing)

Mirror Writing – Group show, Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City, 2016

euro2aura (installation – film, painting, drawing, photocopy, artist book) Les Nuits Photographiques; Money: Group show, Paris 2015/Nha San Collective, Hanoi/Dia Projects, Saigon 2016, Ká: History of Now, Wedeman Gallery, Newton, Ma. USA 2017

olio. v2.  Group show, Galerie Quynh Ho Chi Minh City 2015

That Little Distance  Le Magasin de Jouets, Arles, France 2015

Sorry, Can You Wait One Minute? Film/photography installation, Nha San Collective, Hanoi, Vietnam 2015

That Little Distance  Solo exhibition, Galerie Quynh Ho Chi Minh City 2014

Sorry, Can You Wait One Minute? Media Art/Kitchen Galeri Nasional Indonesia 2013

The Desiring Garden  Asean, Group show, Galerie le Magasin de Jouets / Arles, France 2013

Autopsy Of Days, New Photography From Hanoi, Curator Goethe Inst. Hanoi 2013; Hampshire College Amherst, MA 2016

Lying Down, Solo exhibition, Japan Foundation, Hanoi, 2012

Noorderlicht Photofestival 2012  Terra Cognita  The Desiring Garden, Groningen, Netherlands

The Desiring Garden  Solo Exhibition Kathmandu Gallery, Bangkok 2012, Manzi Art Space, Hanoi 2013

Jo Ha Kyu (with Nguyen Trinh Thi)  The Japan Foundation, Hanoi 2012

Skylines Without Flying People, Group show – Rory Gill Fine Art, London, 2011

The Long Bien Picture Show, Producer, curator, photographer – British Council Hanoi, 2010

When Evening Comes – Group show Days And Nights, The Bui Gallery, Hanoi, 2010

The Last Mask – Photo and handmade mask installation Hanoi, 2010

Select Publications:

LENS/CRATCH Photographers on Photographers Interview, August 2024

Trans Asia Photography, Volume 10, Issue 2 Being in the World, Author, Spring 2020

Matca, Across Long Bien Portfolio, December 2018

Asian American Literary Review, Vol. 6, No. 2 Portfolios, (Re)Collecting the Vietnam War, 2015

diaCRITICS, Art Spaces – Galerie Quynh Review, December, 2015

Photography And Culture, Portfolio: The Desiring Garden, Vol. 6, No. 3 Fall, 2013

Landscape Stories #13, Vietnam issue – 2 portfolios, Fall, 2013

PhotoArt Contemporary, The Desiring Garden review, 2013

The Visual Artbeat, New Collections, The Desiring Garden, Summer 2012

Invisible Ph t grapher Asia, Portfolio Sixty Places To Stand  March 2012

Trans-Asia Photography Review, The Long Bien Picture Show Author, Spring 2011

diaCRITICS, Eye Level: The Photographs of Jamie Maxtone-Graham by Viet Thanh Nguyen, Nov. 2010

culturehall, Issue 50, 2010

burn Magazine, Portfolio When Evening Comes, 2010

Songs for the Spirits Book cover, Barley Norton, 2009

Tiny Vices, State Of Youth, 2008

Portfolios:

i’ve been here all along – color photographs, 2024 (ongoing)

tesserae – b&w film, color digital photographs, 2018  (ongoing)

In a green Island – 5 channel video installation, ambient sound, 20 mins, loop – 2017

Catalog Of Gesture – photographs, moving image, installation – 2016

euro2aura – installation; film, handmade book, commissioned oil painting, signed photocopy – 2015

Hanoiville – 2014-15

Line Studies – 2014-15

That Little Distance  2013

Still. Life  2013

Sorry, Can You Wait One Minute?  2012 [film/photography installation]

Lying Down – 2012

Sixty Places To Stand (Jo Ha Kyu) – 2011

The Desiring Garden – 2011

The Long Bien Picture Show  2010 [British Council commission]

When Evening Comes – 2009

Rented White Gowns  2008-09

Across Long Bien Bridge – 2008

State of Youth  2007-08 [Fulbright Scholar Grant]

Moving image works, director/cinematographer:

In A Green Island, 5 channel video installation, 2017 – exhibited Nha San Collective, Hanoi, 2017; Into Thin Air, Manzi, Hanoi 2018

euro2aura (2015), single channel film and installation (oil painting, drawing, photocopy, artist book) – exhibited Les Nuits Photographiques 2015, Pavillion Carre De Bourduoin, Paris 2015, and Ká by Vietnam Artist Book Project at Nha San Collective (Hanoi) & Dia Projects (Saigon) 2016; KỆ: History of Now Wedeman Gallery, Newton, MA 2017

Hitting Home, documentary film, United Nations FPA, 2015

Eclipse, short film, 2016  Collaborative film work with artist/director Viet Le

Sorry, Can You Wait One Minute, (2012-13) single channel video/photography installation exhibited Japan Foundation, Hanoi 2012; MEDIA/ART KITCHEN, Jakarta, Indonesia, 2013, Nha San Collective, Hanoi 2015

Moving image works, cinematography:

How To Improve The World, multi-channel installation – Nguyen Trinh Thi, dir.

Letters From Panduranga, single channel film – Nguyen Trinh Thi, dir. exhibited Jeu De Paume, Paris 2015-16, CAPC Bordeaux 2016, Prudential Eye Award 2016 Singapore, Rotterdam International Film Festival 2015

Unsubtitled, 10 channel video installation Nguyen Trinh Thi, dir. 2010 Singapore Biennale, 2013, Signature Art Prize nom. 2014, Singapore Art Museum permanent collection

Que Faire and Solo For A Choir, Multi-channel video installation Nguyen Trinh Thi, dir. – exhibited Goethe Institut 2013

People Living With Stories, documentary film, Paul Zetter, dir.

Credits/Awards/Other

Mutual Art / Artist Pension Trust (Beijing)  represented since 2013

Editorial Board  Trans Asia Photography Review [2012-2021]

Instructor; Issues in Contemporary Photographic Seeing, 2013, 2016, 2018 (Hanoi DocLab); 2022 and 2023 (Matca) Advanced film making, 2015, 2017

British Council, The Long Bien Picture Show/Hard Rails Across a Gentle River Producer, Curator, Photographer 2010, Awards: Honorable mention Yamagata Independent Documentary Film Fest., Japan/Best Documentary Salaya FF, Thailand

Fulbright Scholar – Awarded Research Grant: Portfolio State of YouthPhotographic study of Contemporary Youth Culture, Vietnam 2007-08