NGUYỄN MINH THÀNH
Họa sĩ Nguyễn Minh Thành (sinh năm 1971, Hà Nội) là một trong những nghệ sĩ tiên phong của nghệ thuật đương đại Việt Nam từ những năm 1990. Ông thường vẽ chân dung và gần đây chạm đến cảm hứng thiên nhiên, tìm thấy mình trong lối sống chậm, tự do, biết trân quý từng khoảnh khắc.
Triển lãm cá nhân / Solo Exhibitions
2017- No and Meaning. Không và Nghĩa. Manzi Art space.
2013 – Toi, me, moi, The East Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2012- Unspoken words, Eight gallery, Saigon, Vietnam
2011 – Clouds of the old days, New space art foundation, Hue, Vietnam
2007 – Earth and Ink, Art Vietnam Gallery, Hanoi, Vietnam
2006 – Happy Citizen, Mai Gallery, Hanoi, Vietnam
2005 – Please Give Me One Object of Yours, in the “Tree Project” of Veronika R adulovik, Goethe Institute, Hanoi, Vietnam
– Playing Cards, Hanoi Fine Art University, Vietnam
2004 – Small Fish, Ryllega Experimental Contemporary Art
Gallery, Hanoi, Vietnam
2003 – Silence, Art Vietnam Gallery, Hanoi, Vietnam
2000 – The Party, Nha San Exhibition, Hanoi, Vietnam
1999 – Letters for my Mother, Gallery of Artist Unlimited, Brelegeld, Germany
– One Road, Goethe Institute, Hanoi, Vietnam
1998 – My Face, Gallery Witrevin, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1997 – My Face, Vietnam Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
– A Story like Another, Gallery L’Atelier, Hanoi, Vietnam
1996 – First Solo Exhibition, 29 Hang Bai, Hanoi, Vietnam
Triển lãm nhóm / Group Exhibitions
2011 – What we talk about when we talk about love, The Bui Gallery, Hanoi, Vietnam
2009 – Beneath my skin, Ifa Gallery Shanghai, China
2007 – Meditation in Ink, Tama Gallery, New York City, USA
2006 – Il Dragon e la Farfalla, Arte Contemporanea in Vietnam,
Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, Italy
2005 – The Ten Courts of the Kings of Hell, Bankside Gallery, London, England
– Lotus Flower – Art from Vietnam, Sinebrychoff Art Museum, Helsinki
Waino Aaltonen, Museum of Art, Turku; Hameenlinna Art Museum, Hameenlinna, Finland
– The afternoon is full of signs, L’Espace, Hanoi, Vietnam
2004 – Vietnam Today, Galerie Amber and Galerie Caro, Leiden, The Netherlands
– A Grain of Dust A Drop of Water, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea
2003 – Contemporary Vietnamese Painting, The Ace Gallery, Bermuda
– Green, Red and Yellow, Goethe Institute, Hanoi, Vietnam
– Subverted Boundaries, Cross-Bike-Airplane, Sculpture Square, Singapore
2002 – Installation and Performance, Nha San, Hanoi, Vietnam
2000 – Group Exhibition, Pacific Bridge Gallery, Oakland, New Zealand
1999 – Gap Vietnam, House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany
1999 – Triennial of Asian Contemporary Art, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
– Memory-Spirit-Pollution, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
– Nine Lives, Casula Power House, Sydney, Australia
– Night Watch, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
– Mother and Son, Third Asia Pacific Triennial, Brisbane, Australia
1998 – Clocks, Salon Natasha, Hanoi, Vietnam
– Vietnam Express, Travelling Exhibition, Norway
– Spirit of Hanoi I and II, BAU Gallery, Helsinki and Gallery
of the Art Association of Oulu, Finland
– Printemps Vietnamien – Paris Hanoi Saigon, Pavilion des Art, Paris, France
– Plastic waste, Asia-Pacific Artist Solidarity, Centre of Academic
Resources, Chulalongkom University, Bangkok, Thailand
– Vietnam Today, Contemporary Southeast Asian Art, San Francisco, USA
– 3 aus Hanoi, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany
1997 – Artists Calendar, Salon Natasha, Hanoi, Vietnam
– Spring Color, Blue Space Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
– Parcours, Alliance Francaise, Hanoi, Vietnam
– Tour Japan, Mizuma Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1996 – Drawing and Words, Hanoi Fine Arts College, Vietnam
1995 – Young artists – New paintings, Salon Natasha, Hanoi, Vietnam
– Safe Distance, College of Fine Arts, Hanoi, Vietnam, and travelled to Substation, Singapore, Kunsthalle, Bielefeld, Germany and Stadelschule Frankfurt, Germany
– Escape, Paul Ricard, Paris, France
1994 – Students of the Fine Art University Exhibition, German Embassy, Hanoi, Vietnam
Giải thưởng và học bổng lưu trú / Grants and Residencies
2006 – ACC residency in Tokyo, Japan and Queens New York, USA
2003 – Visiting Arts/Delfina International Fellowship Oct. 2003 – June 2004 in London, England
1996 – Grant of the Vietnamese and Swedish Culture Promotion Foundation
Hoạt động nghệ thuật / Miscellany
2006 – Curator of “Ceremonial paintings of Northern Ethnic Minorities” for Dongson Today Foundation, Hanoi Fine Art University
2001 – Director of Production Design for Vietnamese film “Mua”/ “Bride of Silence” by director Doan Minh Phuong
Sưu tập công cộng / Public Collections
National Art Gallery of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Ace Corporation, Bermuda
World Bank
RMIT University collection
Sưu tập cá nhân / Private Collections
France, Canada, England, Singapore, Belgium, Italy, Russia, Germany, Holland, U.S.A. Japan, Bermuda, Australia, Thailand, Vietnam
Post Vidai collection of contemporary Vietnamese art, Switzerland.