Nguyen thi chau giang biography

Born in Hanoi, Vietnam, Nguyễn Thị Châu Giang moved to Ho Chi Minh City with her family when she was eight years old. She studied oil painting at and graduated from Ho Chi Minh City Fine Arts University. In 2011, Châu Giang turned to silk as her medium, drawn to the material's lightness. On silk, female figures appear bolder, watercolours become more refined than oil. Châu Giang's handling of paint reflects her training: the opaque use of broad colour; the ability to give weight to objects reminiscent of the figurative tableau of painter Frida Kahlo; the delicate line-work and patterning that allude to the cycle of death and rebirth in nature.

Her work is in the collections of the QAGOMA (Australia), Hermitage Museum (Russia), Singapore Art Museum (Singapore), Fukuoka Japanese Art Museum (Japan), Witness Collection (Malaysia) and the Vietnam Fine Arts Museum (Vietnam). 

Some notable exhibitions include: There is no lonesome

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Nguyễn Thị Châu-Giang (b. 1975 in Hanoi, Vietnam) moved to Ho Chi Minh City with her family when she was eight years old. She studied oil painting at and graduated from Ho Chi Minh City Fine Arts University. In 2011, Châu Giang turned to silk as her medium, drawn to the material's lightness. On silk, female figures appear bolder, watercolours become more refined than oil. Châu Giang's handling of paint reflects her training: the opaque use of broad colour; the ability to give weight to objects reminiscent of the figurative tableau of painter Frida Kahlo; the delicate line-work and patterning that allude to the cycle of death and rebirth in nature.
 

Her work is in the collections of the QAGOMA (Australia), Hermitage Museum (Russia), Singapore Art Museum (Singapore), Fukuoka Japanese Art Museum (Japan), Witness Collection (Malaysia) and the Vietnam Fine Arts Museum (Vietnam). 

 

Some notable exhibitions include: There is no lonesome wave,

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EDUCATION

 

1998

BFA from Ho Chi Minh College of Fine Arts, Ho Chi Minh City

 

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2020

Hidden Flower 2, Craig Thomas galleri, HCMC, Vietnam

 

2018

Inside of Us, Vin galleri, HCMC, Vietnam

 

2011

Hidden Flower, Thavibu gallery, Bangkok, Thailand

 

2011

Regards deFemmes, Hongkong

 

2004

Return to Love, Columbia University, NYC, USA

A Dream in my day, Cave galleri, Brooklyn, USA

 

2003

My Beauty in Love, Art Vietnam galleri, Hanoi, Vietnam

 

2001

Faces Come from Future, Moco Gallery, Vietnam

 

1997

Old Villages, Majestic Hotel, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (FROM 2012)

 

2021

Asian Pacific Triennial 10 (APT 10), Queensland Art galleri | 

Queensland Museum of Modern Art, Australia

 

2019   

Art Taipei, alkoholhaltig Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

 

2017

Art Kaohsiung, Vietnam Contemporary Art Plat