Khánh Nguyên H. Vũ is [goes by just: Vũ] is an artist that was born in, Bien Hoa, Viet Nam. They create works ranging from paintings to installations. Space becomes time and language becomes image, their work opens a unique poetic vein that reflects upon the fragility and instability of our seemingly certain reality. By applying a poetic and often metaphorical language, they tries to develop forms that do not follow binary systems that we were brought up around. Their works serve as a safe space for radically 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.
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.
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