Nguyễn Quốc Dũng
Nguyễn Quốc Dũng (b.1983, Dak Lak, Vietnam) lives and works in Ho Chi Minh city
Education
Bachelor of Design Studies, Graphic Design Major – Ton Duc Thang University – Course: 2004 – 2008
Bachelor of Arts Painting– Ho Chi Minh City University of Arts – Course: 2009 -2014
My creations form a way to observe human life in contemporary society, through an interest in immigrants, transgenders, and other strenuous issues associated with urbanization, integration, etc. and their effects on society.
My works do not directly replicate information from real life, they instead carry complex metaphors that take after familiar images and things from life, in all its ingenuities and depths, thereby reducing the distance typically found between an art work and real life.
I used oil paint in most of my subjects, presenting rendered images for precarious social issues associated with consumerism, mass culture, loss of privacy as a consequence of technology, and so on. I am especially interested in engaging with boundaries that are completely erased, or replaced through the passage of time from the past to present.
My’s exhibitons
Solo Exhibition
2023 Solo exhibition “The lives of others” at Hatch Art Project
2021 Solo exhibition “Existing and Skeptical” at Gallery Q. 7 Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
Exhibition Group
2023- Join the group exhibition "Traversing Realms" at Wiking Salon, Ho Chi Minh, VietNam
2022- Join the group exhibition “A Shadow Cast Across a Line” at Hatch Art Project
2021- Join the group exhibition “The Families, Out Of Law” at Hatch Art Project
2020 - Join the group exhibition" “Password 0~1” at Mot +++ space, Viet Nam
2018 - Join the exhibition "The Trouble Maker's Wardrobe" at Hatch Art Project, Singapore
2017- Took part in a project named “Saigon Stories” in Indonesia of Ga 0, sponsored by a Japanese Foundation.
2016 - Participating in "Artist of Residence" at San Art Laboratory - Session 8
2014 - Joined the exhibition Section VI at Ho Chi Minh City Art Museum with a work called “Prostitute”
2013 - Joined the Young Art Exhibition 2013 at Applied Arts, at Ho Chi Minh City Art Museum with a work called “Teenager Ages”