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
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 Youth – Photographic study of Contemporary Youth Culture, Vietnam 2007-08