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BIO
Vy Trịnh (b. 1996, Ho Chi Minh City) is a sculptor whose work explores how objects and their networks fluctuate between the domestic and public and extend beyond themselves, reflecting and reimagining the larger socio-economic textures and conditions of contemporary Vietnam.
Materials and objects are sourced and amalgamated from different economies and ecologies—tracing the polyrhythmic, cyclical, and sedimented lives of human and non-human things at both the local, urban, and planetary scales, bridging the gap between intimacy and circulation.
Through manual making methodology, the interior and exterior environments of her works bleed together. Her practice is always “becoming”, following the traffic of objects, different forms of gendered labour and agency, and the sites where these categories are constantly being negotiated and improvised.
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Vy holds an MFA in Fine Arts from the University of Pennsylvania and a BFA in Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design. Solo exhibitions and projects include On Da Dream at Galerie Quynh (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) and Overvoltage at Gia Lam Train Station (Hanoi, Vietnam)
Selected group exhibitions include NARS Foundation (Brooklyn, NY) (forthcoming), Sàn Art (Ho Chi Minh City), Shisanwu LLC (Queens, NY), Worthless Studios (Brooklyn, NY), Atelier (Philadelphia, PA), Automat (Philadelphia, PA), White Columns (New York, NY), and Gallery MC (New York, NY). Her work has been published and reviewed on Artforum, Frieze, Foundwork, and Artnet. She was the recipient of the 2022 Christopher Lyon Memorial Award. Vy also received grants from Vietnam Art Collection (VAC), Humanities Urbanism Design Initiative (H+U+D), The Sachs Program for Art Innovation, and the Center for Experimental Ethnography. Her works are in the collection of Nguyen Art Foundation and other private collections.
Vy currently lives and works between Ho Chi Minh City, Philadelphia, and New York.
Vy Trịnh (b. 1996, Ho Chi Minh City) is a sculptor whose work explores how objects and their networks fluctuate between the domestic and public and extend beyond themselves, reflecting and reimagining the larger socio-economic textures and conditions of contemporary Vietnam.
Materials and objects are sourced and amalgamated from different economies and ecologies—tracing the polyrhythmic, cyclical, and sedimented lives of human and non-human things at both the local, urban, and planetary scales, bridging the gap between intimacy and circulation.
Through manual making methodology, the interior and exterior environments of her works bleed together. Her practice is always “becoming”, following the traffic of objects, different forms of gendered labour and agency, and the sites where these categories are constantly being negotiated and improvised.
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Vy holds an MFA in Fine Arts from the University of Pennsylvania and a BFA in Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design. Solo exhibitions and projects include On Da Dream at Galerie Quynh (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) and Overvoltage at Gia Lam Train Station (Hanoi, Vietnam)
Selected group exhibitions include NARS Foundation (Brooklyn, NY) (forthcoming), Sàn Art (Ho Chi Minh City), Shisanwu LLC (Queens, NY), Worthless Studios (Brooklyn, NY), Atelier (Philadelphia, PA), Automat (Philadelphia, PA), White Columns (New York, NY), and Gallery MC (New York, NY). Her work has been published and reviewed on Artforum, Frieze, Foundwork, and Artnet. She was the recipient of the 2022 Christopher Lyon Memorial Award. Vy also received grants from Vietnam Art Collection (VAC), Humanities Urbanism Design Initiative (H+U+D), The Sachs Program for Art Innovation, and the Center for Experimental Ethnography. Her works are in the collection of Nguyen Art Foundation and other private collections.
Vy currently lives and works between Ho Chi Minh City, Philadelphia, and New York.