Nguyen Thanh Phong

Nguyen Thanh Phong is a co-founder of Phong Duong Comics.
Work as a graphic novelist, illustrator, art toys designer and art/creative director (in comics – illustration and painting) for various publishers and clients in Vietnam, France, Italy, USA..


Nguyễn Thành Phong started his career since 2004. For that many years, he has been awarded numerous national and international prizes, including the Special Jury Prizes for the Best Artworks at the Asian Youth Animation & Comics Contest 2011 (Guiyang, China); Silver Award in the 9th International Manga Award(2016). A few of his famous works in the recent years are Sát thủ đầu mưng mủ (a picture book illustrating Vietnamese contemporary idioms),Think before honking (series of cartoons about traffic’s problems), Hà Nội – My City, Holy Dragon Imperator…

Vietnam University of Fine Arts (B.A)

2018 Xiamen International Animation Festival 2018, Xiamen, China
2018 Thương nhớ thời bao cấp (Memories of the subsidy period), exhibition & seminar, L’espace, Hanoi
2017-2018 MANGASIA: Wonderland of Asian Comics, Barbican Centre, Rome (Italy), Monza (Italy), Nantes (France)
2015 Ke Cho - Hanoi Old Quarter, Illustrations, permanent exhibition, Hanoi Old Quarter Cultural Center, Hanoi
2012 COMICONNEXIONS, comics festival, Jakarta
2012 I draw me, group comics exhibition, L’espace, Hanoi
2012 Language of gen.@ Youth, solo exhibition & seminar, Hanoi
2011 AYACC, group exhibition, Guiyang
2010 Transmission: Experience, group exhibition, ICA Singapore
2009 Lingua Comica, group comics exhibition, Bucheon
2009 Espai Cromatic, group exhibition, Tarragona
2009 The other side, group exhibition, Hanoi
2009 Tiny, group exhibition, Ho Chi Minh city
2008 48.1, group exhibition, Hanoi
2008 Mat ke - Gens de Hanoi, group comics exhibition, Hue city
2008 Mat ke - Gens de Hanoi, group comics exhibition, Angouleme
2007 Lingua Comica, group comics exhibition, London
2007 Mat ke - Gens de Hanoi, group comics exhibition, Hanoi