vannhinguyen.com Lives and works in Hanoi, VN
Vân-Nhi Nguyễn lives and works in Hà Nội, Việt Nam. Her work explores the entanglement between dreams, memories and physicality, how they define the past and the future - looking, seeing, questioning, believing.
Nguyễn has been presented at the Aperture Foundation, V&A Parasol Foundation, Objectif Centre for Photography & Film, Hong Kong International Photography Festival, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Matca Space for Photography, amongst others. Nguyen has been awarded grants from the Aperture Foundation, V&A Museum, PhMuseum, to name a few. Her work has been reviewed and published in publications such as Aperture magazine, It’s Nice That and British Journal of Photography.
SELECT EXHIBITIONS:
2025 TBA, NARS Foundation, New York, US
2024 Visualising Climate Crisis, Angkor Photo Festival & Workshop, Siem Reap, Cambodia
All about Love, á Space for Experimental Art, Hanoi, Vietnam
And One Eternailty Later, curated by Ba-bau AIR, daadgalerie, Berlin, Germany
2023 Imaging Rhizome, curated by 3năm, RABA, Tokyo, Japan
‘Agents of Change’ presented by the V&A Parasol Foundation, Peckham 24, London, UK
Remission, Manzi Hanoi, Vietnam
(Solo) “As You Grow Older”, presented by Aperture Foundation, Baxter St at the CCNY, New York, US
PLAT(T)FORM, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Women in Film & Photography 2023, Objectif Centre for Photography & Film, Singapore
(Solo) “Trăm Năm Hạnh Phúc/ Hundreds Years of Happiness”, Hong Kong International Photography Festival
Remission, curated by Jamie Maxtone- Graham, The Outpost Art Organization, Hanoi, Vietnam
2022 Photo Vogue Festival Projections, BASE Milano, Milan, Italy
Art For You 15, Manzi Art Space, Ha Noi, Viet Nam
2021 Things That Counts, Matca Space for Photography, Ha Noi, Viet Nam
SELECT AWARDS/ PRIZES:
2024 Finest Artist, Hanoi Grapevine’s Finest 2023
Arttaca Grant Finalists
2023 Winner, The V&A Parasol Foundation Prize for Women in Photography, V&A Museum, London, UK
Winner, Aperture Portfolio Prize
2022 New Generation prize, Women Photographers Grant, PhMuseum
SELECT PANELS/ TALKS:
2023 Women in Film & Photography, Bodies, Objectif Centre for Photography & Film, Singapore
Photo Hanoi, Table ronde « Parcours de Femmes Photographes » avec Maika Elan, Nguyễn Vân Nhi, Nhu Xuan Hua & Eléonore Tran
Photo London, Aperture presents: Agents of Change, moderated by Fiona Rogers
Peckham 24, Gesture, Pose, Performance: the Body and the Art of Storytelling - with Priyadarshi Ravichandran, Vân Nhi Nguyễn, Fion Hung Ching-Yan and Dr. Catherine Troiano
Aperture Conversations, Vân-Nhi Nguyễn and Varun Nayar on As You Grow Older
WORKSHOPS/ RESIDENCIES:
2023 Angkor Photo Festival & Workshop- with Antoine d’Agata, Katrin Koenning & Veejay Villafranca, Siem Reap, Cambodia
NOOR Images: Visualizing Climate Crisis with Linh Pham and Kadir van Lohuizen, Hanoi, Vietnam
2022 On Seeing: Producing a Photographic Series – with Jamie Maxtone - Graham, Matca, Viet Nam
PROFESSIONAL WORK:
Present Senior Technical Officer, RMIT University, Hanoi Campus
EDUCATION
BA (Hons), Graphic Design at Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK
SELECT PRESS/BIBLIOGRAPHY:
2025 Heat, Lulu Yao- Gioiello, Far - Near
2024 Vân-Nhi Nguyễn Crafts a New Portrait of Vietnam, Rebecca Lynn Loftin, to Be Magazine issue 7
2024 Finest Artist 2024: Vân-Nhi Nguyễn, Hanoi Grapevine
2024 Vân-Nhi Nguyễn - As You Grow Older , Phroom
2023 “Home” by Vân-Nhi Nguyễn, A Magazine Curated by - Peter Do issue no. 26
2023 Histories of Space and Self, Zarah Amiruddin, Arttaca
2023 Vân-Nhi Nguyen's Bold Perspective on the Lives of Young People in Vietnam, Thessaly La Force, Aperture 251: Asian in America
2023 Vân-Nhi Nguyễn Explores the Gap of Vietnam Past and Present - PhMuseum Lucia De Stefani, PhMuseum
2023 In her ongoing series, photographer Vân-Nhi Nguyễn subverts colonial perceptions of Vietnam, Daniel Milroy Maher, It’s Nice That
2022 As You Grow Older, Transference Magazine
2021 Ones To Watch: Nguyen Van Nhi - Matca , Hà Đào, Matca