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Tuan Vu
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Echoes of the Unseen – Gallery Reveal, Bordeaux, France. Toi, moi, nous – Simard Bilodeau Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, United States. Artist collaboration with Claudia Chan Tak-Painting on Dress, Montreal, QC, Canada. Art SG – Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Singapore, Singapore. Plural – Duran Mashaal Gallery, Montreal. QC, Canada. CAN Art Fair – Duran Mashaal, NYC, United States. Wild Ones, Simard Bilodeau Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, United States; Arrival, Duran Mashaal Gallery, Montreal, QC, Canada. V.I.D.E, Agrégat Université de Sherbrooke à Longueuil, Longueuil, QC, Canada (2023); Imagination, Cache Studio, Montreal, QC, Canada (2023); Sundaze, Wishbone Gallery, Montreal, QC, Canada (2023); Arrival, Duran Mashaal Gallery, Montreal, QC, Canada (2023); Where the Wild Roses Grow, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Schloss Görne, Berlin, Germany (2023); Les cahiers, Maison de culture Monk, Montreal, QC, Canada (2023); ART TORONTO, Duran Mashaal, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Canada (2023); FOCUS NYC, Chelsea Industrial, New York, US (2023); Fomat à importer, Galerie Institut National Art Contemporain gallery, Montreal, Canada (2022); Carrousel du Louvre, FOCUS ART FAIR (BOOM), Paris, France (2022); Paintings, drawings and photo, Montréal en Arts, Rue Sainte-Catherine, Montreal, Canada (2021); Beach Life, Galerie Luz, Montreal, Canada (2019); Pluriel au singulier at the Galerie GOT, Montreal, Canada (2016).
Highlights and Collections
Tuan Vu’s work has been featured in the December 2024 issue of Financial Times: How to Spend It, highlighting the magical quality of his work. Vu's work can be found in private and public collections globally, including Bunker Artspace Museum, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA; Holbar Collection, United Kingdom; VAC (Vietnam Art Collection), Vietnam; and Fidelity Investments, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. In 2021, Vu was named Artist of the Month at YES Montreal and gave an interview to LeZarts on MATV as a guest artist. Additionally, he is a recipient of multiple grants from the Canada Council for the Arts (2024) and he received a Merit for his participation in the Luxembourg Art Prize (2021 and 2022).
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Annam
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mimicking the sense of walking in wonder, past the painted vases and the black panther – a symbol of freedom for Vu – into the garden and up to the sky where we notice the faint trace of a domed glass roof and begin to imagine the heat and fragrant scents around us.Marking a shift from Vu’s typical focus on landscape, there are also a number of portraits in this exhibition where the surreal backdrops point to layered narratives and a sense of unfolding time. The Official Portrait, for instance, depicts a queen seated in elaborate áo dài, the national dress of Vietnam, while behind her we see various apparitions: the figure of a western queen holding a sceptre, of the Buddha and the odalisque. The odalisque is a direct reference to the Vietnamese painter Mai Trung Thu, who in turn was inspired by Ingres. This interweaving of references reflects the complex cultural inheritances that shape Vu’s work, where Vietnamese and European artistic traditions coexist within the same pictorial space. Rather than attempting to resolve these histories, Vu allows them to overlap and drift through his compositions like memories – suggesting that identity, like the landscapes he paints, is something continually reimagined from afar. In this way, the exhibition becomes less a reconstruction of a time or place than a meditation on the fragile, imaginative process of remembering it.
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Tuan Vu: Annam
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