Nguyen Thi Chau Giang
1975 Born in Hanoi
1998 Graduated from the Ho Chi Minh City University of Fine Arts (Oil painting branch)
Nguyen Thi Chau Giang’s paintings depict the inner world of one Vietnamese woman. Her works present the hardships and difficulties of being a woman in a man’s world, the struggle for personal identity and the sense of self. They are private spaces which, for the most part, are never open for others to see. The works express both the incredible joy and sadness that comes from bearing children, the loss of identity that it entails, and the cultural difficulties of dealing both with a husband and with mother-in-laws. Some of her latest works on silk show the sense of disappointment that can stem from having too many dreams.
The artist is one of seven female Vietnamese artists whose work traveled to several museums with the international exhibition Changing Identities: Recent Works by Female Vietnamese Artists, curated by Nora Taylor PhD in 2003. She has exhibited widely locally and internationally and most recently Chau Giang’s works were exhibited in the prestigious Asia Pacific Triennial in 2022.
An accomplished writer Chau Giang has published and received awards for her literature as well as her visual art.
Chau Giang is considered one of the top emerging female talents in Vietnam.
She has works in private collections as well as public collections in the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia and the Singapore Art Museum.
2023 The World We Live in, Lotus Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 2011 Hidden Flowers, Thavibu Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand 2004 Return to Love, Columbia University, NYC, USA 2003 My Beauty in Love, Art Vietnam, Hanoi, Vietnam 2001 Faces come from future, Japanese Moco Gallery, Vietnam 1997 Young artist club, HCMC, Vietnam 1996 Women Beyond Borders, USA 1995 National Art Exhibition, Hanoi, Vietnam
A Dream in my day, Cave Gallery, Brooklyn, USA
The Villages, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Young Artist Club, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
2014 A Woman’s View, Goethe Institut, Hanoi, Vietnam
2012 ‘VIETNAM NOW’ Exhibition at The Rotunda, Exchange Square, Hongkong Land, Hong Kong
2009 Hanoi where we are now, Art Vietnam Gallery, Hanoi, Vietnam
2007 Changing Identity: Recent works by women artists from Vietnam,
Kennesaw State University Art Galleries, Kennesaw, Georgia, Trammell
& Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art, Dallas, Texas, Stedman Art
Gallery, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ, Utah Museum of Fine Arts,
Salt Lake City 2008, Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of
Minnesota 2009
2001 eunes regards, Hanoi, Vietnam
The end of the growth, Chiangmai-Thailand, traveled to Germany
Asian Contemporary Art, London, United Kingdom
2000/2003 Text and subtext, Singapore, traveled to Australia, Europe, America and Asian countries
2000 Peace, Seoul, Korea
Point of views, HCMC, Vietnam
Weather Report, Holland
1999 4 young artists, Blue Gallery, Danang, Vietnam
Weather Report, Holland
4 young artists, Vietnam Gallery, HCMC, Vietnam
Womanifesto II, installation and performance, Bangkok, Thailand
They and me, 3 artists, Blue Space Contemporary Art Center, HCMC, Vietnam
1998 Who am I, installation with French artist, HCMC, Vietnam
Young artist club, HCMC, Vietnam
1996 Women Beyond Borders, America
Young artist club, HCMC, Vietnam
1995 National Art Exhibition, Hanoi, Vietnam
2004 Artist-in-Residence Grant Recipient, CAVE Organization Inc
2001 Scholarship received for Study the Art initiative at Ecole des Beaux Arts in
Paris, France
1st Prize, Young Artist Concour organized by French Embassy and
Vietnam Fine Art Association
1999 Selected One of Top Ten Young Artists of Ho Chi Minh City
1997 Selected One of Top Ten Young Artists of Ho Chi Minh City
1995, 1998, 1999 Literature Award for youth literature
2004 Return to Love (volume of short stories), Phu Nu Publishing House Vietnam
2001 Flying by the Time (notes and stories), Writer Association Publishing House, Vietnam
1999 Childhood Summer (volume of short stories), Tre Publishing House, Vietnam
Short Hair (novel), Kim Dong Publishing House, Vietnam
1998 Sunrise Song (volume of short stories), Kim Dong Publishing House, Vietnam
The Game (volume of short stories), Tre Publishing House, Vietnam
1997 Charming Blue Bird (volume of short stories), CAND Publishing House
Sleepless (novel), CAND Publishing House
1996 Love Market (volume of short stories), Tre Publishing House, Vietnam
1995 Lantern of High Hanging (volume of short stories), Tre Publishing House, Vietnam
1993 Sea on the Mountain (volume of short stories), Tre Publishing House, Vietnam
Wedding of Stars (volume of short stories), Kim Dong Publishing House, Vietnam
Member of Vietnam Writers Association Member of Vietnam Arts Association
1999 Womanifesto II, installation and performance, Bangkok, Thailand 1998 Who am I, installation with French artist, HCMC, Vietnam America August to November 1999 Paris, France 2001-2002 New York October – December 2004
RESIDENCIES
Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia Singapore Art Museum Fukuoka Asian Art Museum Vietnam Fine Art Museum
America, France, Germany, Brazil, Argentina, Singapore
Ho Chi Minh Fine Art University
