Nguyen Minh Thanh

1971 Born in Hanoi, Vietnam
1991-1996 Studies Hanoi College of Fine Art

Solo Exhibitions

2007 “Earth and Ink”, Art Vietnam Gallery, Hanoi, Vietnam
2006 “Happy Citizen”, Hanoi, Vietnam
2005 “Tree Project”, Goethe Institute, Hanoi, Vietnam
         Radulovik, Goethe Institute, Hanoi, Vietnam
         “Playing Cards”, Hanoi Fine Arts University, Vietnam
2004 “Small Fish”, Ryllega Experimental Contemporary Art Gallery, Hanoi, Vietnam
2003 “Silence”, Hanoi, Vietnam
2000 “The Party”, Nha san Exhibition, Hanoi, Vietnam
1999 “Letters for my Mother“, Gallery of Artist Unlimited, Brelegeld, Germany
1998 “My Face“, Gallery Witrevin, Amsterdam, Holland
1997 “My Face”, Ho Chi Minh City and “A story like Another”, Hanoi
,Vietnam
1996 First Solo exhibition, 29 Hang Bai, Hanoi, Vietnam

Group Exhibitions

2005 “The Ten Courts of the Kings of Hell”, Bankside Gallery, London, UK
         “Lotus Flower”, Sinebrychoff Art Museum, Helsinki
         Waino Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku
         Hameenlinna Art Museum, Finland
2004 “Vietnam Today”, the Netherlands
2003 “Contemporary Vietnamese painting”, Bermuda
         “Green, Red and Yellow”, Goethe Institute, Hanoi, Vietnam
2000 “Group Exhibition” Oakland, California, USA
         “The Party”, Hanoi, Vietnam
1999 “Gap Vietnam”, Berlin, Germany
         Triennial of Asian Contemporary Art, Fukuoka, Japan
         “Memory, Spirit, Pollution”, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
         “Nine Lives”, Casula Power House, Sydney, Australia
         “Beyond the Future”: Third Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, Australia
         “Letters for my Mother”, Brelegeld,Germany
         “One Roas“, Goethe Institute, Hanoi, Vietnam
1998 “Clocks”, Hanoi, Vietnam
         Norway touring Exhibition, “Vietnam Express”, Norway
         “Spirit of Hanoi”, Helsinki, Finland
         “Printemps Vietnam”, Paris, France
         “Plastic Waste, Asia-Pacific Artists Society”, Bangkok, Thailand
         “Vietnam Today”, Contemporary South east Asian Art, San Francisco, USA
         “3 aus Hanoi”, Aachen, Germany
1997 “Artists Calendar”, Hanoi, Vietnam
         “Spring Colour”, Ho Chi Minh City
         “Parcours”, Alliance Francaise, Hanoi, Vietnam
         “Tour Japan”, Mizuma Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
         “Drawing and Words”, Bielefeld, Germany
         “New Horizon”, Hanoi, Vietnam
1996 German School, Singapore
         German Embassy, Hanoi, Vietnam
         “Drawing and Words”, Hanoi Fine Arts College, Vietnam
1995 “Students of the Fine Art College”, German Embassy, Hanoi
         “Young Artists, New Paintings” , Hanoi, Vietnam
         “Safe Distance”, College of Fine Arts, Hanoi, traveled to Germany, France, and Singapore
         “Escape”, Paul Ricard, Paris, France
1994 “Students of the Fine Arts College”, German Embassy, Hanoi, Vietnam

Installations and Performances

2004 “Small Fish” -Hanoi, Vietnam
2001 Installation performance, Nha San Hanoi, Vietnam
1998 “Night Watch”, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
1999 “Mother and Son” Third Asia Pacific Triennial, Brisbane, Australia
         “Rice Field”, Germany
1995 “One Road” Goethe Institute, Hanoi
1996 Solo installation exhibition, Hanoi, Vietnam

Grants and Residencies

2005 ACC Scholarship – Tokyo, Japan
         Queens, New York
2003-2004 Visiting Arts Delfina International Fellowship
1997 Grant from the Vietnamese and Swedish Culture Promotion Foundation

Publications

2007 Nguyen Minh Thanh, “Earth and Ink“, Art Vietnam Gallery
2006 Curator of “Ceremonial Paintings of Northern Ethnic Minorities” Dongson Foundation, Hanoi Fine Art University
2000 Director of Production Design of Vietnamese film “Mua/Bride of Silence” by director Doan Minh Phuong
         Arts Asia Pacific “Windows on Life, the art of Nguyen Minh Thanh” by Natalia Kraevskaia

Public Collections

Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Ace Corporation, Bermuda
World Bank
Queensland Art Gallery, Australia
United Nations, New York
Embassies of US, France, Singapore and Germany in Hanoi, Vietnam

Private Collections
France, Germany, Holland, USA, Japan, Bermuda, Australia, Thailand, The Vatican

 Water color on 'Do' paper
[Woman with Veil], Chinese Ink and Water colour on 'Do' paper,
70cmx50cm
Water colour on paper
Water color on paper

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