Born in VIETNAM 1971. Migrated to AUSTRALIA 1978. Moved to NORWAY 2007.

Education

1990-1993    University of News South Wales - College of Fine Arts, Sydney (Australia).

Artistic Projects

International Projects

2003    Transportable S-Bahn Line S2, Berlin.

        Burragorang International Artist Workshop, NSW, Australia

        (For more information view, www.burragorang.org)

        Time Out of Joint, touring exhibition, Hanoi, Vietnam

2001    International Site Specific Laboratory, Queensland, Australia

1999    Southampton Park, Southampton, England

        Headlands: Exhibition collaboration between Australia & Vietnam, Next Wave

        Festival, Melbourne

Forums / Artist Talks

2011,13  Artist Talk, Asker Kunstskole, Akershus, Norway.

2010     Seminar about art projects, nature, ecology and climate changes, BOA, Oslo

2001     Crooked Lines: Memory and Landscape, Artist Talk, Casula Powerhouse

         Floating Lands, Artist Talk, Site Specific Laboratory, Queensland.

2000     Amorphous, Artist Talk, Linden Contemporary Art Centre, Melbourne

1996     Identity and Change, Forum on art and culture based on Vietnamese-Australian

         Experiences part of the first national exhibition, Midnight Sun, Melbourne

1994     Asian Women Artist Group, Artist Talk, Blaxland Gallery, Sydney

       

     

Curatorial Projects

2003    Burragorang Artist Open Day, Burragorang regional NSW.

2002    St Kilda Bowling Club Studios, Treasury Place, Melbourne.

1996    Home is Where the Heart is (wherever that is), Sydney.

1994    Installation Project, Bankstown, Sydney.

1993    Off the Wall, Bankstown, Sydney.

Artistic Involvement

Solo Exhibitions

2011    Caught up in nets, Galleri BOA, Oslo.

2007    Fourth Impression, IMP Above Gallery, Melbourne.

2001    Crooked Lines: Memory and Landscape, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney.

2000    Amorphous, Linden Art Gallery, Melbourne.

1999    Contour, Temple Studio, Melbourne.

1998    Seeing More than One Horizon, West Space, Melbourne.

        Stories in a Landscape, Stop 22 Gallery, Melbourne.

1995    The Killing, Bankstown, Sydney.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2016    After the Fact, Kulturhuset Banken, Lillehammer, Norway.

2015    Mail Art Project, Oppland Kunstsenter-Glasskuben, Norway.

2014    International Land Art Project, Fall, Norway

2010    Bottna Land Art 2010, Bottna Kulturfestival 2010, Sweden.

2008    50x50x50 Landscape Project Along Høvikodden, Henie Onstad Kunssenter, Norway.

2006    We are Australian Too, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney

2005    Natural Selection, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne.

2004    Time Out of Joint, Nexus Gallery, Adelaide.

2003    Time Out of Joint, Hanoi College of Fine Arts, Vietnam.

        Intersections, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne.

2002    Delineations, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne.

        Floating Land, Noosa Regional Gallery, Qld.

2001    Something for the Ladies, Penthouse & Pavement, Melb.

        Vinculum II, First Draft Gallery, Sydney.

2000    Gasworks National Sculpture Exhibition’, Melbourne.

        Vinculum, West Space, Melbourne.

        Artists of the Bowling Club Studios, Alliance François, Melb.

1999    Regroup, Gabriel Gallery, Melbourne.

1998    Personal Geography, Gabriel Gallery, Melbourne.

1997    Australian Perspecta

1997    Fibro, Between Art and Nature,

        Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney.

        Vietnam Voices, Casual Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney.

        Unnatural Scenographic, Stop 22 Gallery, Melbourne.

        Midnight Sun, Access Gallery National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.

1995    Untitled '95, The Performance Space, Sydney.

        From the Pit, COFA Gallery, College of Fine Arts, Sydney.

        Part 2, Outdoor Sculpture, Sydney.

1994    Unframed , Bankstown, Sydney.

        Fragments of Origin, The Blaxland Gallery, Sydney.

1993    Graduation Exhibition, College of Fine Arts, Sydney.

1992    Artichoke, Arthaus, Sydney.

Selected Reviews / Catalogues

Natural Selection, Christine Clark, 10/2005

Two on the River of Life, Herald Sun, 5/4/03

Floating Land, Artlink, July 2002.

Crooked Lines: Memory and Landscape, Russell Storer, catalogue.

Artlink, Summer, 2000.

Gasworks National Sculpture Exhibition, 2000, catalogue.

Artlink, image bank, Autumn 1999.

SACAAN, Southampton City Council,12/98-3/99, UK.

Anita Bragge, Herald Sun, 8/7/98

Women’s Art Registry Bulletin, No.28 July 1998, Melbourne.

Robert Rooney, The Australian, 15/5/98.

The Leader, Caulfield-Glen Eira, 23/3/98.

Brimbank Messenger, 3/2/98.

Australian Perspecta 1997, Between Art and Nature Catalogue, p27

Benjamin Genocchio, Business Weekly Review, 1/9/97.

Amanda Johnson, Unnatural Scenographic, 4/97.

Adam Lucas, Vietnam Voices Catalogue, 1997.

Peter Timms, Herald Sun, 2/96.

Robert Rooney, The Australian, 16/2/96.

Nguyen Ngoc Phach, Midnight Sun, 1/96.

Billy Crawford, Untitled ’95, 1/95.

Katherine Knight, Artlink, Sydney: The Big Shift, vol14/no3, 94.

Residencies / Awards

2015    Statens Diversstipend, Norway.

2014    Oppland Fylkeskommune Kulturtilskudd, Norway.

2013    Project Stipend, Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond, Norway.

2012    Staten Diversstipend (Miscellaneous Grant), NBK, Norway.

2011    Kunst i Natur Biennale, Nevelsfjord, Kjerringøy, Norway 15-23 July.

2010    Bottna Landart - Konstnärernas Kollektivverksted i Bohuslän (KKV), Bottna Kultur

        Festival 2010, Sweden.

2004    Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder, Trondheim, Norway.

        Old England and Bailey Hotel Sculpture Award of Excellence, Melbourne.

2003    Burragorang International Artist Workshop, NSW, Australia

2001    Noosa Regional Gallery Artist-In-Residency Programs - The Floating Land.

2000    Pat Corrigan Artists' Grant, National Association for Visual Arts

1999    British Council and Museum of Contemporary Art,

        Exchange Residency at Southampton City Art Gallery, United Kingdom.

1998    Artist in Residence at Footscray Community Arts Centre, Australia

1993    Union Steel Sculpture Award, Sydney.