Biography
Nguyen The Son was born in 1978 in Hanoi into a family of artists. He graduated from Hanoi Foreign Language University and then from the Vietnam University of Fine Arts, where he taught for a decade. In 2008, he earned a master's degree in art photography from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, marking a shift toward an interdisciplinary practice combining photography, installation and community art.
His artistic approach explores urban memory, architectural transformation and Vietnamese cultural values through media as varied as photography, silk painting, lacquerwork and sculpture. He is the initiator and curator of several iconic public art projects in Hanoi: the Phùng Hưng Street murals (2018), created in collaboration with Korean artists on the arches of the Old Quarter railway viaduct, and the Phúc Tân project (2020), which brought together sixteen international artists to transform a working-class neighborhood on the banks of the Red River.
His works are held in collections at the Worcester Art Museum (USA), the Central Academy of Fine Arts (China) and RMIT Vietnam. He has exhibited in South Korea, the Netherlands, the United States, Hong Kong and across Southeast Asia. In 2023, he was shortlisted for the Sovereign Asian Art Prize. He currently teaches at the Faculty of Interdisciplinary Sciences at Vietnam National University in Hanoi.
His artistic approach explores urban memory, architectural transformation and Vietnamese cultural values through media as varied as photography, silk painting, lacquerwork and sculpture. He is the initiator and curator of several iconic public art projects in Hanoi: the Phùng Hưng Street murals (2018), created in collaboration with Korean artists on the arches of the Old Quarter railway viaduct, and the Phúc Tân project (2020), which brought together sixteen international artists to transform a working-class neighborhood on the banks of the Red River.
His works are held in collections at the Worcester Art Museum (USA), the Central Academy of Fine Arts (China) and RMIT Vietnam. He has exhibited in South Korea, the Netherlands, the United States, Hong Kong and across Southeast Asia. In 2023, he was shortlisted for the Sovereign Asian Art Prize. He currently teaches at the Faculty of Interdisciplinary Sciences at Vietnam National University in Hanoi.
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