Nguyễn Thị Châu-Giang

Biography

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, POUSH, Aubervilliers, France, 2023; V.I.E, A2Z Art Gallery, Paris, France 2023; Asian Pacific Triennial 10 (APT 10), Queensland Museum of Modern Art, Australia, 2021; Inside of Us, Vin Gallery, HCMC, Vietnam, 2019; Afar And Within: Silk Paintings Of Two Milieus, The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre, HCMC, Vietnam, 2017; Women in between: Asian Women Artists, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi, Japan, 2013.

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Practice

Her art embraces painting, performance, installation and also writing. She had her first short story published when she was eight years old. To date she has had 15 novels and volumes of short stories published in Vietnamese, which alongside her career as a visual artist has profiled her as one of Vietnam's most profiled new generation artists.

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Works