Born in VIETNAM 1971. Migrated to AUSTRALIA 1978. Moved to NORWAY 2007.
Education
1990-1993 University of News South Wales - College of Fine Arts, Sydney (Australia).
Artistic Projects
International Projects
2003 Transportable S-Bahn Line S2, Berlin.
Burragorang International Artist Workshop, NSW, Australia
(For more information view, www.burragorang.org)
Time Out of Joint, touring exhibition, Hanoi, Vietnam
2001 International Site Specific Laboratory, Queensland, Australia
1999 Southampton Park, Southampton, England
Headlands: Exhibition collaboration between Australia and Vietnam, Next Wave
Festival, Melbourne
Forums / Artist Talks
2011,13 Artist Talk, Asker Kunstskole, Akershus, Norway.
2010 Seminar about art projects, nature, ecology and climate changes, BOA, Oslo
2001 Crooked Lines: Memory and Landscape, Artist Talk, Casula Powerhouse
Floating Lands, Artist Talk, Site Specific Laboratory, Queensland.
2000 Amorphous, Artist Talk, Linden Contemporary Art Centre, Melbourne
1996 Identity and Change, Forum on art and culture based on Vietnamese-Australian
Experiences part of the first national exhibition, Midnight Sun, Melbourne
1994 Asian Women Artist Group, Artist Talk, Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
Curatorial Projects
2003 Burragorang Artist Open Day, Burragorang regional NSW.
2002 St Kilda Bowling Club Studios, Treasury Place, Melbourne.
1996 Home is Where the Heart is (wherever that is), Sydney.
1994 Installation Project, Bankstown, Sydney.
1993 Off the Wall, Bankstown, Sydney.
Artistic Involvement
Solo Exhibitions
2011 Caught up in nets, Galleri BOA, Oslo.
2007 Fourth Impression, IMP Above Gallery, Melbourne.
2001 Crooked Lines: Memory and Landscape, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney.
2000 Amorphous, Linden Art Gallery, Melbourne.
1999 Contour, Temple Studio, Melbourne.
1998 Seeing More than One Horizon, West Space, Melbourne.
1998 Stories in a Landscape, Stop 22 Gallery, Melbourne.
1995 The Killing, Bankstown, Sydney.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2016 After the Fact, Kulturhuset Banken, Lillehammer, Norway.
2015 Mail Art Project, Oppland Kunstsenter-Glasskuben, Norway.
2014 International Land Art Project, Fall, Norway
2010 Bottna Land Art 2010, Bottna Kulturfestival 2010, Sweden.
2008 50x50x50 Landscape Project Along Høvikodden, Henie Onstad Kunssenter, Norway.
2006 We are Australian Too, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney
2005 Natural Selection, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne.
2004 Time Out of Joint, Nexus Gallery, Adelaide.
2003 Time Out of Joint, Hanoi College of Fine Arts, Vietnam.
Intersections, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne.
2002 Delineations, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne.
Floating Land, Noosa Regional Gallery, Qld.
2001 Something for the Ladies, Penthouse and Pavement, Melb.
Vinculum II, First Draft Gallery, Sydney.
2000 Gasworks National Sculpture Exhibition’, Melbourne.
Vinculum, West Space, Melbourne.
Artists of the Bowling Club Studios, Alliance François, Melb.
1999 Regroup, Gabriel Gallery, Melbourne.
1998 Personal Geography, Gabriel Gallery, Melbourne.
1997 Australian Perspecta
1997 Fibro, Between Art and Nature,
Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney.
Vietnam Voices, Casual Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney.
Unnatural Scenographic, Stop 22 Gallery, Melbourne.
Midnight Sun, Access Gallery National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
1995 Untitled '95, The Performance Space, Sydney.
From the Pit, COFA Gallery, College of Fine Arts, Sydney.
Part 2, Outdoor Sculpture, Sydney.
1994 Unframed , Bankstown, Sydney.
Fragments of Origin, The Blaxland Gallery, Sydney.
1993 Graduation Exhibition, College of Fine Arts, Sydney.
1992 Artichoke, Arthaus, Sydney.
Selected Reviews / Catalogues
Natural Selection, Christine Clark, 10/2005
Two on the River of Life, Herald Sun, 5/4/03
Floating Land, Artlink, July 2002.
Crooked Lines: Memory and Landscape, Russell Storer, catalogue.
Artlink, Summer, 2000.
Gasworks National Sculpture Exhibition, 2000, catalogue.
Artlink, image bank, Autumn 1999.
SACAAN, Southampton City Council,12/98-3/99, UK.
Anita Bragge, Herald Sun, 8/7/98
Women’s Art Registry Bulletin, No.28 July 1998, Melbourne.
Robert Rooney, The Australian, 15/5/98.
The Leader, Caulfield-Glen Eira, 23/3/98.
Brimbank Messenger, 3/2/98.
Australian Perspecta 1997, Between Art and Nature Catalogue, p27
Benjamin Genocchio, Business Weekly Review, 1/9/97.
Amanda Johnson, Unnatural Scenographic, 4/97.
Adam Lucas, Vietnam Voices Catalogue, 1997.
Peter Timms, Herald Sun, 2/96.
Robert Rooney, The Australian, 16/2/96.
Nguyen Ngoc Phach, Midnight Sun, 1/96.
Billy Crawford, Untitled ’95, 1/95.
Katherine Knight, Artlink, Sydney: The Big Shift, vol14/no3, 94.
Residencies / Awards
2015 Statens Diversstipend, Norway.
2014 Oppland Fylkeskommune Kulturtilskudd, Norway.
2013 Project Stipend, Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond, Norway.
2012 Staten Diversstipend (Miscellaneous Grant), NBK, Norway.
2011 Kunst i Natur Biennale, Nevelsfjord, Kjerringøy, Norway 15-23 July.
2010 Bottna Landart - Konstnärernas Kollektivverksted i Bohuslän (KKV), Bottna Kultur
Festival 2010, Sweden.
2004 Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder, Trondheim, Norway.
2004 Old England and Bailey Hotel Sculpture Award of Excellence, Melbourne.
2003 Burragorang International Artist Workshop, NSW, Australia
2001 Noosa Regional Gallery Artist-In-Residency Programs - The Floating Land.
2000 Pat Corrigan Artists' Grant, National Association for Visual Arts
1999 British Council and Museum of Contemporary Art,
Exchange Residency at Southampton City Art Gallery, United Kingdom.
1998 Artist in Residence at Footscray Community Arts Centre, Australia
1993 Union Steel Sculpture Award, Sydney.