Nguyen Thi Chau Giang

Nguyen Thi Chau Giang specialized in oil painting at Ho Chi Minh City University of Fine Arts. She only started exploring pigment on silk in 2006 and has since enjoyed the medium. Unlike her oil paintings which are surreal, her silk paintings are calm and contemplative.

Born 1975, Hanoi, Vietnam.

EDUCATION

1998
Graduated from the Ho Chi Minh City University of Fine Arts (Oil painting branch)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

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
Jeunes regards, Hanoi, Vietnam

2001
The end of the growth, Chiangmai-Thailand, traveled to Germany

2001
Asian Contemporary Art, London, United Kingdom

2000/03
Text and subtext, Singapore, traveled to Australia, Europe, America and Asian countries

2000
Peace, Seoul, Korea

2000
Point of views, HCMC, Vietnam

2000
Weather Report, Holland

1999
4 young artists, Blue Gallery, Danang, Vietnam

1999
Weather Report, Holland

1999
4 young artists, Vietnam Gallery, HCMC, Vietnam

1999
Womanifesto II, installation and performance, Bangkok, Thailand

1999
They and me, 3 artists, Blue Space Contemporary Art Center, HCMC Vietnam

1998
Who am I, installation with French artist, HCMC, Vietnam

1998
Young artist club, HCMC, Vietnam

1996
Women Beyond Borders, America

1998
Young artist club, HCMC, Vietnam

1995
National Art Exhibition, Hanoi, Vietnam

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2003
My Beauty in Love, Art Vietnam, Hanoi, Vietnam

2001
Faces come from future, Japanese Moco Gallery, Vietnam

1997
Young artist club, HCMC, Vietnam

AWARDS

Won top ten "Young artists" of HCMC, 1997

First prize, Young artist concourse organized by the French embassy and the Vietnamese Fine Art Association in 2001

Published two volumes of short stories and novels as well as 4 plays.