Biography
Nguyen Thai Tuan

Against the backdrop of Nguyen Thai Tuan’s Paintings there is always Vietnam, with its symbolic places and its history. […]. While always referring to historical events and real occurrences, the subject of his works is not the event as such, but rather its repercussions that generate the shadowy areas in the psyche of the individual while influencing that individual’s everyday life.

- Demetrio Paparoni 

Born in 1965 in Quang Tri, Vietnam.

Died in 2023.
 
Nguyen Thai Tuan graduated from the Hue University College of Arts in 1987 and was one of Vietnam’s most significant artists of his generation, whose artistic practice was anchored in the symmetry of fullness and absence. For Thai Tuan, the relationship between space and objects, and body and matter, was of unquestionable importance.
In the monograph on Nguyen Thai Tuan, the Italian art critic Demetrio Paparoni states: “Against the backdrop of Nguyen Thai Tuan’s paintings there is always Vietnam, with its symbolic places and its history. The stories in these pictures draw upon real events, news images and images of daily life that are normally filtered through photographs, newspapers, television or the Internet. While always referring to historical events and real occurrences, the subject of his works is not the event as such, but rather its repercussions that generate the shadowy areas in the psyche of the individual while influencing that individual’s everyday life. Accordingly, Nguyen Thai Tuan’s interest is directed towards the behaviors and the existential dynamics of both those who induce these events and those who endure them. In remarking that current condition as the result of the sedimentation of historical events and happenings, Nguyen Thai Tuan intermingles the past and the present, rendering the painting a critical space in which his reflections take shape.”
Nguyen Thai Tuan held many solo exhibitions worldwide, including Interior & Black Souls, Virtual Exhibition, Primo Marella Gallery, Milan, Italy, 2021; Black painting, Primae Noctis Art Gallery, Lugano, Switzerland, 2015; Heritage, Primo Marella Gallery, Milan, Italy, 2014; Fullness of Absence, San Art, HCMC, Vietnam, 2011; Black Painting, San Art, HCMC, Vietnam, 2008; and Black Painting, New Discovery, SH Contemporary, Shanghai, China, 2008. His paintings are held in renowned collections, including Queensland Art Gallery Foundation, Queensland, Australia; Fondazione Golinelli, Boglona, Italy; KADIST; Fondation Francès, Senlis, France; Maison Particuliere, Brussels, Belgium; Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney, Australia; Tiroche DeLeon Collection, UK; Bordoli Collection, Santa Margherita Ligure, Italy; and Ho Chi Minh City Museum of Fine Arts, HCMC, Vietnam.
Exhibitions
Solo & Group Show

Nguyen Thai Tuan CV

Born in 1965 in Quang Tri, Vietnam.

Died in 2023.

 

Exhibitions

 

Solo Shows

2022

Waiting fo the end of the wind, Sàn Art, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam

2021
Interior & Black Souls, Primo Marella Gallery, Milan, IT
Love in the Dream, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Central, HK
2016
Shapeshifting: Contemporary Art From Southeast Asia, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery
2015
Simulacrum, Primae Noctis Art Gallery, Lugano, CH
2014
Heritage, Primo Marella Gallery, Milan, IT

2011

Fullness of Absence, Sàn Art, Ho Chi Minh City, VN

2008

Black Painting, Sàn Art, Ho Chi Minh City, VN
Black Painting, New Discovery, Shanghai Art Fair, CN

 

Group Shows

2024

The Surrealist Journey: Exploring Reality and Imagination,  10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Central, HK

 

2022

S.E.A. Calling, Primo Marella Gallery, Milan, IT

2014

Chorographies Suspendues, Carre d’Art, Nimes, FR

2012

7th Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, AU
Deep S.E.A, Primo Marella Gallery, Milan, IT
Four Rising Talents from South East Asia, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong 

2011

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8, Bui Gallery, Hanoi, Vietnam 

2010

Within Emptiness, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, HK

2009

Time Ligaments, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, (co-organized by Sàn Art, Vietnam), HK

2007 

Voices of Minorities, Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Sydney, AU

2005

New Figuration in Vietnamese Painting and Sculpture, Faculty Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne, AU
Convergence 2005, Workshop and Exhibition with International and Local Artists, Fine Arts Museum, Ho Chi Minh City, VN

2002

Introspections of the Soul, Gallery Viet Nam, New York, USA, and Blue Space Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City, VN

2001

Liquid, Workshop and Exhibition with International and Local Artists, Blue Space Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City, VN

1998

Meeting Point, Workshop and Exhibition with Thai and Local Artists, Fine Arts Museum, Ho Chi Minh City and University of Fine Arts, Ha Noi, VN

1995

National Fine Arts Exhibition, Exhibition House, Ha Noi, VN

1990

National Fine Arts Exhibition, Exhibition House, Ha Noi, VN
Two Artists, Exhibition House, Da Lat, VN

Art Fairs