Khánh Nguyên Hoàng Vũ [goes by just: Vũ] (they/them) is a non binary Vietnamese immigrant who I seeks to manifest forms that will flow as if there are no borders or binaries. Vũ explores the role that spirituality plays in helping trans/queer individuals navigate through old and contemporary society. Their practice is a manifestation of their belief in the freedom of movement, a luxury, so it seems under the structures that form our reality. For their practice, Vũ's points of departures are migration and spirituality, and particularly the bridge between the material and the unseen world.
“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
CV
b.1997, Vietnam
Lives and works in Miami, Florida.
Solo Exhibitions and Projects
2018
EDEN 11, U2S Studios, Miami, Fl
2022
Hồ Lô Project x CMXNR, Deering Estate, Miami, FL
Group Exhibitions and Projects
2018
Rising Stars, New World Gallery, Miami, FL
2018
Diaspora, The Kampong, Miami, FL
2019
The Future Ain’t What It Used to Be, Miami, FL
2020
“EQUILIBRIA”, BFA thesis exhibition, New World School of The Arts, Miami, FL
2020
Untitled, Frederic Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
2022
PERMAQUEER, Miami, FL
Publications
2019
Palomo Pride Zine, published by Fempower
2020
Brown Bohemians: Honoring the Light and Magic of Our Creative Community, Published by Vanessa Coore Vernon, Morgan Ashley, Wendy Pruitt
2021
You are here, broadsheet zine, published by Exile Books
Residencies
2019
Void Projects Residency, Miami, FL
2020
Summer Painting Open at Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, FL
2021
Oolite Arts formerly known as Florida Arts Center, Home + Away Residency at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center,
Snowmass Village, CO
Education
2020
New World School School of the Arts, Miami, FL
Bachelors in Fine Arts.
2018
Associates in Art, Miami Dade College, Miami, FL
Award
2017
Frances Wolfson Art Scholarship