Minh Vu

I am a Vietnamese visual artist and art educator, born in Hanoi in 1980. I began my artistic journey in 1998, when I entered the University of Fine Arts in Hanoi as a first-year student. Since then, painting has become an essential part of my life and a way for me to explore, understand, and express the world around me.

I graduated from the Vietnam University of Fine Arts in 2002 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours, and received a Master of Fine Arts with Honours in 2007. I am currently a lecturer in art at Hanoi Architectural University, where I combine teaching with my professional practice as an artist.

My artistic practice is driven by a deep passion for painting and a continuous desire to experiment. I am interested in the relationship between observation, imagination, nature, light, colour, and memory. My paintings often move between recognizable forms and abstraction, allowing images to emerge, dissolve, and transform through colour, gesture, texture, and layers of paint.

Nature, water, flowers, reflections, landscapes, and the atmosphere of places are recurring elements in my work. Rather than simply reproducing what I see, I try to capture the emotional experience of a place and translate it into a personal visual...

2007
Master of Fine Arts (MFA), with Honours
Vietnam University of Fine Arts, Hanoi, Vietnam
2002
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), with Honours
Vietnam University of Fine Arts, Hanoi, Vietnam

Selected Exhibitions
2024
Art Vogue D’Nation Vietnam, Palm Artspace, Hanoi, Vietnam
Annual Art Exhibition of Art Lecturers, Hanoi Architectural University, Hanoi, Vietnam
International Art and Cultural Exchange, Suphanburi, Thailand
2023
Annual Art Exhibition of Art Lecturers, Hanoi Architectural University, Hanoi, Vietnam
2022
Art and Design Exhibition, Ang Thong, Thailand
Annual Art Exhibition of Art Lecturers, Hanoi Architectural University, Hanoi, Vietnam
2021
Hope, Karkhana Art Space, Vietnam
Annual Art Exhibition of Art Lecturers, Hanoi Architectural University, Hanoi, Vietnam
2019
Korea Art Fair, Seoul, South Korea
Thailand–Vietnam Art Exchange Exhibition, Hanoi, Vietnam
Art Project in collaboration with artist Thomas Barbey, Paris, France, for a French school in Hanoi
2018
The Red Project, Tokyo, Japan
4th MSC Exhibition, Taiwan
4th MSC Exhibition, Hanoi, Vietnam
3rd Malaysia Art Biennale, Penang, Malaysia