These works hold space for the absence of fear and embracing all the uncertainties that may arise in the human experience.
I seek to manifest forms that will flow as if there are no borders or binaries and explore the role that spirituality plays in helping such a person navigate through modern society. As a first-generation Vietnamese immigrant, I believe in the freedom of movement, a luxury, so it seems under the structures that form our reality. For my practice, my points of departure are migration and spirituality, and particularly the bridge between the material and the unseen world.
Along my process, I draw influences from minds such as: Thich Nhat Hanh and his teachings on mindfulness, Trinh T. Minh-ha and her studies on postcolonial feminism.
I seek to manifest forms that will flow as if there are no borders or binaries and explore the role that spirituality plays in helping such a person navigate through modern society. As a first-generation Vietnamese immigrant, I believe in the freedom of movement, a luxury, so it seems under the structures that form our reality. For my practice, my points of departure are migration and spirituality, and particularly the bridge between the material and the unseen world.
Along my process, I draw influences from minds such as: Thich Nhat Hanh and his teachings on mindfulness, Trinh T. Minh-ha and her studies on postcolonial feminism.
Khánh Nguyên Hoàng Vũ is [goes by just: Vũ] is an artist that was born in, Biên Hòa,Việt Nam. With an oeuvre that spans from painting to installation (and then some), their work opens a unique poetic vein that reflects upon the intensity and constant shifts in contemporary existence. They develop forms that do not follow binary systems that we were brought up around; these works serve as a safe space for some soft, deep-seated and honest self reflection. Vũ currently lives and works in Miami.
“Informed by a strict Vietnamese Catholic upbringing, the artist has recently used the spiritual practices they were exposed to as a child as a starting point to explore their queer, nonbinary personhood, reclaiming rituals that once burdened them. In these paintings, rites such as communion and funerals become visual settings for meditations on memory, loss, and rebirth.” - The Bakehouse Art Complex
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b.1997, Vietnam
Lives and works in Miami, Florida.
EDUCATION
2020 BFA in Painting, New World School of the Arts, University of Florida, Miami, FL.
─Minor in Art History. New World School of the Arts, University of Florida, Miami, FL.
AWARDS:
2016 NWSA Full Scholarship, New World School of the Arts, Miami, Fl.
2017 Frances Wolfson Art Scholarship, Miami, FL.
2020 Summa Cum Laude, New World School of the Arts,
University of Florida, Fl.
SOLO EXHIBITION
2018 EDEN 11, U2S Studios, Miami, Fl.
2022 Ho Lo Project x CMXNR, Deering Estate, Miami, FL.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 Rising Stars, New World Gallery, Miami, FL.
2018 Diaspora, The Kampong, Miami, FL.
2019 The Future Ain’t What It Used to Be, The Kampong, Miami, FL.
2020 “EQUILIBRIA”, BFA thesis exhibition, New World School of The Arts, Miami, FL
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2020 Untitled, Frederic Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL.
2021 PERMAQUEER, Masisi Studios, Miami, FL.
RESIDENCY
2019 Void Projects Residency, Miami, FL.
2020 Summer Painting Open at Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, Fl.
2021 Home + Away Residency with Oolite Arts
Anderson Ranch, Snowmass Village, CO