Tiếng Việt
Nguyễn Mạnh Hùng
The Artist
1976 Hanoi Vietnam
When Nguyen Manh Hung’s career began many considered him to be the Edward Hopper of Vietnam. Today he has truly evolved into his own unique artistic style which evokes Hopper’s realistic recapitulations of machinery but introduces a profound sense of playfulness, humor, and Vietnamese absurdity. His recent work reflects the contradictions and ambiguities that are so tangible in the rapid development of his home country.
As a multi-disciplinary artist, Hung is equally at ease painting as he is creating large-scale installations or exploring performance art. His particular realist style encompasses a distinctive sense of playfulness and humor that sets him apart from previous generations of artists. As the son of a jet fighter pilot, he draws on the personal in his paintings of aircraft. Depicting military planes laden with oversized grocery items, or else soaring across the sky with bushels from the rice harvest, Hung’s surreal scenes humorously morph a symbol of destruction with conduits of hope, benevolence and joy.
As one of Vietnam’s most recognized emerging artists, Nguyen Manh Hung continues to gain international attention. His work was featured in the 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art 2012 at the QAG/GoMA in Australia. Over the years, Hung’s work has showed at ifa Galleries Berlin and Stuttgart, Germany; ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany; Bildmuseet, Umea, Sweden; Stenersen Museet Oslo, Norway; Yerba Buena Center, San Francisco; Jeonbuk Museum of Art, South Korea. Hung has participated in several residency programs at Art OMI NY in USA, Asian Cultural Council NYC in USA, Musee D’Art Contemporain Du Val-de-Marne (MACVAL) in France, and the Cleveland Foundation, Ohio, USA.
Hung is also known as former art director of Nha San Studio (from 2008 to 2011), known now as Nha San Collective, the first nonprofit artist led art space for contemporary art in Hanoi since 1998. He supports young artists as a mentor and to realize their work at Nha San.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Somewhere Out There
Farmers’ Got Power
2016
Art Vietnam Gallery, Hanoi, Vietnam
Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Where Is The Enemy
2015
Negative Space Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
L’avventura – Lãng Du
2014
MAC/VAL Museum, Vitry-sur-Seine, Paris, France
One Planet
2013
Manzi Art Space, Hanoi, Vietnam
Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Living Together in Paradise
2011
Goethe Institute, Hanoi, Vietnam
Oil Paintings
2010
Marena Rooms Gallery, Turin, Italy
Conductor, Installation Art
2005
Ryllega Gallery, Hanoi, Vietnam
Come With Me, Oil Paintings
Trousers and Shirts, Installation Art
2002
Goethe Institute, Hanoi, Vietnam
Nha San Studio, Hanoi, Vietnam
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Vietnam Eye Exhibition
2016
Casa Italia, Hanoi, Vietnam
Be Open / 30 Years of Fine Art After Doi Moi
2016
Vietnam National Museum of Fine Arts, Hanoi, Vietnam
Asia Young 36 / Asia Contemporary Art Exhibition 2016
2016
Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Korea
Into Thin Air / Off Road
2016
Public Art Project, Hanoi, Vietnam
Mien Meo Mieng/Contemporary Art from Vietnam
2015
Bildmuseet, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
The Clouds Will Tell
Vietnam Now
Onward and Upward
2014
Nha San Collective, Hanoi, Vietnam
Kunstrai, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Queensland Art Gallery (QAGOMA), The 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT7)
Art HK 12, Hong Kong International Art Fair
2012
Australia
Hong Kong
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,
Skylines Without Flying People
Norwegian Constitution Day
2011
The Bui Gallery, Hanoi, Vietnam
Rory Fine Art Gallery, London, UK
Melia Hotel, Hanoi, Vietnam
Connect – Kunstszene Vietnam
TamTa
2010
ifa Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany
San Art, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Connect – Kunstszene Vietnam
Lim Dim – Vietnamese Contemporary Art
Shabu Shabu, Ethan Cohen Fine Art Gallery
2009
ifa Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Stenersen Museet, Oslo, Norway
New York City, USA
10+, 10th Anniversary Group Exhibition
Strategies From Within
Asian Contemporary Art Fair New York 2008
Power of the Brush
Mekong Art & Culture Project
Exhibition at Location 1
2008
Nha San Studio, Hanoi, Vietnam
Ke Center, Shanghai, China
New York, USA
Ethan Cohen Fine Art Gallery, New York City, USA
Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam
New York City, USA
transPOP: Korea Vietnam Remix, Traveling Exhibition
Asian Contemporary Art Fair New York 2007
Thermocline of Art – New Asian Waves, ZKM Center for Art and Media
2007 – 2008
Korea, Australia, Japan, Vietnam, and USA
New York, USA
Karlsruhe, Germany
Saigon Open City
Flight with Bradford Edwards
Resident, Art OMI International Arts Center
2006
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Studio Anh Khanh, Hanoi, Vietnam
New York, USA
Out of Context
2005
Huntington Beach Art Center, California, USA
Gap Hanoi
2004
Goethe Institute, Hanoi, Vietnam
Green, Red & Yellow
2003
Goethe Institute, Hanoi, Vietnam
S.E.A
2000
Hanoi Fine Arts University, Hanoi, Vietnam
