Tia-Thuy Nguyen

Tia-Thuy Nguyen (Tia-Thủy Nguyen, b. 1981) was born and raised in Hanoi. After graduating from the VietnamUniversity of Fine Arts in 2006, she moved to Ukraine, where she achieved her PhD in Fine Arts at the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture of Kyiv in 2014. Tia-Thuy Nguyen has been practicing painting since 1999. Her artworks focus on the observation of her surroundings, and the colorful yet chaotic feelings of a woman living in a modern world. Being conscious of the difficulties of the Vietnamese art scene, in 2016, Tia-Thuy Nguyen founded The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre, the first purpose-built space for contemporary art in Vietnam, that aims to be a dynamic destination for the display of, and education about art and design, demonstrating the creative criticality of Vietnam today. In 2017, she founded a film production company, Xuong Phim Mau Hong, with a vision to share extraordinary stories that inspire audiences and engage the community. She challenges women’s roles in today’s society, drawing from her own experience as a mother, a fashion designer and an artist. Tia-Thuy Nguyen’s artworks have been exhibited and collected widely in Vietnam and Europe. In 2019, she became the first Vietnamese artist with work in the prestigious Château La Coste’s collection (Aix-en-Provence, France). In the same year, she was listed among the ‘Top 50 most influential women in Vietnam 2019’, by Forbes Vietnam.