Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi

Photo: Thy Tran (2023)

Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi is a Milky Way-based artist whose practice mutates in and out of film, sculpture, installation, performance, and interdisciplinary research. Collaborating with characters in search of consciousness, language, and freedom, her recent body of work explores the aesthetic, political, epistemological possibilities of image and sound. Her work has been presented in both the art and cinema context, including Art Collider Lab, Seoul; Belvedere 21, Vienna; Centro di Musica Contemporanea di Milano, Milan; De Appel, Amsterdam; Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, New York; Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago; Kunsthall Trondheim, Trondheim; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Manila; Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater, Los Angeles; Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden; Villa Medici, Rome; Whitechapel Gallery, London; 12th Berlin Biennale; 20th Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival; 60th New York Film Festival; Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin 2023/24; 20th Reykjavík International Film Festival; 33rd Singapore International Film Festival; among other spaces. In 2023, she was included among the 20 New Talents in Art in America, nominated for the New:Vision Award (1), and awarded the Jury Grand Prix (2) and Golden Lola (3) for Into The Violet Belly. Having studied Fine Arts at the Städelschule and Film at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she is currently a PhD researcher at the Centre for Research and Education in Art and Media, the University of Westminster and a fellow at the Junge Akademie, the Academy of Arts.

1 The Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival.

2 The 25FPS International Experimental Film and Video Festival.

3 The German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.