Statement
Huy, one of Hanoi’s most intriguing young artists, was born in 1971 in Ha Tay, in the North of Vietnam.
He graduated from the College of Fine Arts in Hanoi in 1996. During his childhood, he was delighted to play with his friends in the enclosures of the pagodas. In his village there are so many temples and pagodas. The largest is the pagoda Chùa Thày (pagoda of the Master). Chùa Thày is known as the oldest and most beautiful pagoda of Viêt Nam. The images of the Buddhist world seem to be his first contacts with the visual art. It is the greatest reason which leads him towards the pictorial career.
Since three years, he has been working on an artistic project: to create temples dedicated to women. In these temples, he wants to do all that could be the most beautiful to glorify the women. In painting, he paints many vietnamese women. Those were during different historical period and of various geographical areas.
Huy’s work combines silhouetted forms painted in fields of color with enigmatic writing which is used as a graphic element. His work is mysterious, he does not explicitly spell out its meaning. He consistently uses biomorphic shapes bathed in color and illegible script in his works which range from small works on rice paper to large works on canvas that measure several meters in length and width.
« Women, whose names i do not know,
whose circumstances i have not learned.
Women whose energy and creativity i have absorbed
Women i have met and now honour
To them i give my gratitude »
Work
Biography
Born in 1958 in Hanoi
1994
- German Embassy Hanoi
- « Students of the Fine Art College » Hanoi Vietnam
1995
- German Embassy Hanoi « Students exhibition »Hanoi Vietnam
- Salon Natasha « Young artists – new paintings », Hanoi Vietnam
- College of Fine Art Hanoi « Khoang cach an toan » Hanoi Vietnam
- Substation Singapore « Khoang cach an toan » Singapore
- Kunsthalle Bielefeld « Khoang cach an toan » Germany
- Espace Paul Ricard, Paris, France
1996
- German School Singapore (Project)
- German Embassy Hanoi « books and words » Vietnam
- Gallery artist unlimited Bielefeld « nhieu tay qua » Germany (Solo exhibition)
1997
- Salon Natasha « New painting and calender » Hanoi Vietnam
- Alliance Francaise « Parcours » Hanoi Vietnam
- Mizuma Art Gallery « Go to Japan for Touring » Tokyo Japan
- ZiF Bielefeld – Center for interdis research « sieben Tage » Germany
- Goethe-Institut Hanoi Vietnam
- Vietnam (Solo exhibition) Galerie L´Atelier Hanoi
- Salon Natasha « clocks » Hanoi Vietnam
1998
- Pacific-Bridge: Contemporary Southeast Asian Art « Vietnam today » San Fransisco USA
- Bau-Gallery: « Installation Salon Natasha » Helsinki Finland
- Chulalongkorn University « Plastic (& other) Waste » Bangkok/Thailand
- Pavillon des Arts – Paris Musees « Paris Hanoi Saigon » Paris France
- rea gallery « made in Viet nam » Paris France
- Galerie Schwarze Tür, Bielefeld GERMANY
- Gallery Veronique Smagghe Paris France (Solo exhibition)
- Ludwig Forum Aachen « 3 aus Hanoi » Aachen Germany
1999
- Haus der Kulturen der Welt « Gap Viet Nam » Berlin Germany
- Goethe Institut Hanoi « mot hai ba » Vietnam (Solo exhibtition)
- Mizuma Art Gallery « Memory – Spirit – Pollution » Japan
- Casula Power House « nine lives » Sydney Australia
2000
- Galerie am Grossneumarkt « Nguyen Quang Huy » Hamburg Germany (Solo exhibition)
- Salon Natasha « metamorphose » Hanoi Vietnam (Solo exhibition)
- Pacific-Bridge « Mr. Nguyen » Oakland (San Fransico) USA
2001
- Goethe Institut Hanoi « Life in Hanoi » Hanoi Vietnam Authentic, digiframe, Cologne (Germany)
- Contemporary Art Center, « Young Artists 2001 », Hanoi
- Gallery Frank & Lee, Singapore (Solo exhibition)
2002
- Landon Gallery, Images Vietnam, New York USA
- Contemporary Art Center « Hanoi Art goes new media » Hanoi Vietnam (video art project)
2003
- L’Espace « Buddha in the city » Hanoi Vietnam
- Goethe Institut Hanoi « Green red & yellow » Hanoi Vietnam
- Nha San Studio « Room zoom » Hanoi Vietnam
- Mai Gallery « dal » Hanoi Vietnam – Goethe Institut Hanoi and L’Espace « City in movementi » Hanoi Vietnam (video art project)
2004
- Art Gallery Caro and Gallery Amber « Vietnam vandaag – Vietnam today » Leiden Holland
- Goethe Institut Hanoi « portraits » Hanoi Vietnam
- Mai Gallery « open new gallery » Hanoi Vietnam
- Lim dim « Vietnam performance art event » Hanoi Vietnam (performance art project)
2005
- Hämeenlinna Art museum- Wäinö Aaltonen museum- Sinebrychoff Art museum « Lotus Flower » Finland
- Gyllega Gallery « unknown women name » Hanoi Vietnam (Solo exhibition)
- Huntington Beach Art Center « out of context » California USA
- L’Espace « Le soir est tout soupirs » Hanoi Vietnam
- Block43 Studio Gallery « Access Hanoi » Singapore
Works in public collection
- Fukuoka Art Museum Japan, worldbank art program Washington DC United States