Nguyen Xuan Anh

Nguyen Xuan Anh is an emerging artist who began his career paying homage to his father, who was considered one of the best lacquer on wood artists in Vietnam. Those initial pieces employ traditional subjects using a variety of earthy colors such as red, yellow and brown. As Nguyen’s artistic visions evolve, his more recent works depict the changing Vietnam as well as pastoral scenes of blossoms, trees and landscapes using ink on paper. He has an astounding ability to mix the traditional with the modern. Nguyen Xuan Anh was born in 1977 in Hanoi, Vietnam and graduated from the Industrial Fine Art College in 1999. He has exhibited extensively in the United States, Singapore, and China.

“I love to follow the idea East meet West. It means I may use Western concept such as American Abstract expressionism, contemporary thinking of some artists who I really like: Jackson Pollock, Wolf Kahn , Alexander Calder… I stayed at Wolf Kahn studio at Vermont studio center, while I participated in an art residency there for a month in 2008. In contrast, I also like Eastern culture, Vietnamese traditional lacquer techniques, ink on paper, ink wash paintings…

After many times participate at international art exhibitions in Shanghai, art biennale Beijing, Soeul, Tokyo… I love to combine all of culture I have visited in my painting with my thinking about Vietnam contemporary social.”

Education

1999:

Graduated from the lndustrial of Fine Art College, Ha Noi, Viet Nam.

Member of Vietnam Fine Arts Association.

Exhibitons:

2005: Participated in the National Exhibition, Ha Noi, Viet Nam

2007: Solo exhibition at Tu Do Gallery, HCMC, Vietnam.

2008: Participated in the Third Biennale International Art Olympic Beijing China 2008.

2008: Group show at Metro fine art, Kuala lumpur, Malaysia.

2008: Group show at Aibo Fine Art, NYC, USA

2010: Participated in the National Exhibition, Ha Noi, Viet Nam

2010: Participated in the Asian Contemporary Art Fair NYC, USA

2012: Participated in the Affordable Art Fair NYC, USA

2013: Participated in the 20th International art exchange, Seoul Korea.

2013: Participated in the 1st Changzhou China, International Art workshop and festival.

2014: Participated in the Vietnam-Korea exchange exhibition at Gwangju art museum

2014: Participated in the 1st Qingdao Biennal international art China

2015: Participated in the Shanghai International art exhibition and feastival.

2016: Participated in the Calligraphy and abstract art exhibition at the Metropolitan art museum in Tokyo.

2017-2018: Participated in the International art exhibition and work shop

at Poh Chang academy of art in Bangkok.

Prizes and Awards:

1984: Gold medal in the competition entitled: “Forever Green”, for
children in the world, organized by UNICEF,

1999: Nokia award in the Asian fine art competition “Vision of your future”

2008: First place at the International exhibiton Box Heart gallery, PA, US

Residency:

2008: Vermont Studio Center, VT, USA.

Collection:
JP Morgan Bank…

Baosheng modern park museum, Changzhou China.

Nguyen Xuan Anh

Some of Works