Nguyen Thai Tuan - Biography | 10 Chancery Lane Gallery

Tuan Thai Nguyen was born in Quang Tri, Vietnam in 1965 and died in 2023. In 1964, this southern province near the Demilitarized Zone to Northern Vietnam that runs along the east bank of the Thach Han River (which served as the geographical divide between North and South Vietnam) became a center for American bases.

Four years later after the Battle of Khe Sanh, the North Vietnamese forces captured the entire area. The suffering and pain of the local community who endured the many bombs and bullets of this traumatic period have permanent imprint on Nguyen’s mind and heart.

Tuan Thai Nguyen graduated from Hue Fine Art College, Hue, Vietnam in 1987 and has been given solo and group exhibitions in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hue and Dalat. He is known for his Black Paintings in which he blacks out the face of his subjects or leaves them headless provoking the viewer to define the meaning of his subjects with an open-ended story line, Although the events of his paintings draw upon actual story lines, there are multiple interpretations the veiwer can make through their own biases.

Solo exhibitions (selection):

2022

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

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

Collective exhibition (selection):

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