Visual Artist
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Thi My Lien Nguyen
CH/DE. b.1995
EDUCATION
(BA Camera Arts)
University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Lucerne, Switzerland
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
2024
2024
2024
2022
2018
Shaping Fluidity, Installation with Pop-Up Café
Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, 7 Sep 2024 – 31 Dec 2027
The Women Who Came Before Us
s!c Elephanthouse, Lucerne, 31 Aug – 12 Oct 2024
Bellies To Fill
das Lehrerzimmer, PROGR, Bern, 18 Apr – 31 May 2024
everthing, in time
Kunst im Campus, Kantonsschule Romanshorn, 27 Feb – 28 Mar 2024
Three Grains of Rice and Some Gold
Coalmine – Raum für Fotografie, Winterthur 3 Jun – 24 Jul 2022
Hiếu thảo – With love and respect
Seitenwagen, Kunst(Zeug)Haus Rapperswil, 3 Jun – 5 Aug 2018
Casa Azul, Verzasca, TI, 30 Aug – 30 Sep 2024
Athens Photo Festival
Benaki Museum, Athens, 6 Jun – 28 Jul 2024
Memory is an Editing Station – 22nd Biennial Sesc_Videobrasil
Sesc 24 de Maio, São Paulo, Brazil, 18 Oct – 25 Feb 2024
Werkschau Zürich 2023
Museum Haus Konstruktiv, 28 Sep – 8 Okt 2023
Let’s fêtes galantes
Forum Schlossplatz, Aarau, 9 Sep – 7 Jan 2024
Paths in Flux – Images from the Diaspora
Fotostiftung Winterthur, 26 Aug – 28 Jan 2024
Kiefer Hablitzel | Göhner Art Prize Finalists
12 – 18 Jun 2023, Messe Basel
Common Grounds
Biennale Weiertal, 21 May – 10 Sep 2023
Angkor Photo Festival
Siem Reap, Cambodia, 6 – 15 January 2023
Plat(t)form 2023
Fotomuseum Winterthur, 9–11 Sep 2022
Heimspiel 2021
Kunsthaus Glarus, 10 Dec – 6 Feb 2022
Jungkunst
Halle 53, Katharina-Sulzer-Platz
Winterthur, 28 – 31 Oct 2021
Bestimmt
Alte Fabrik, Rapperswil, 4 Sep – 17 Oct 2021
Unexpected Paths: Viewpoints from Europe, Photo Hanoi
Vincom Center for Contemporary Art 5 May – 6 June 2021, Hanoi, VN
Memory: Über die Erinnerung und das Vergessen in ungewöhnlichen Zeiten
Kunstmuseum Olten, 23 Jan 2021 – 18 April 2021
Chranzrock ond Bechue:Adaptionen in Kunst, Mode und Kunsthandwerk
Museum Appenzell, 13 Sep 2020 – 16th Mar 2021
Dezemberausstellung: Fokus unter 40 Jahre
Kunstmuseum Winterthur, 28 Nov – 3 Jan 2021
Remixing: Brunnen, Öffentlichkeit und andere Geschichten
Auto exNexTex, Aktuelle Kunst im Diskurs, St. Gallen, Oct 2020
From North to South and beyond: A Vietnamese photographic journey
screening night, Matca, Jul 2020, Hanoi, Vietnam
past & post: Fotografie in Archiv und Netz
BelleVue, Ort für Fotografie, Basel, 2 Feb – 5 Jul 2020
artgenève, Prix Mobilière 2020, Palexpo Genève, 30th Jan – 2nd Feb
From North to South and beyond: A Vietnamese photographic journey,
screening night, Angkor Photo Festival, Siem Reap, Cambodia, Dec 2019
OHNETITEL – 20 Jahre Innerrhoder Kunststiftung
Kunstmuseum Appenzell, 24 Feb – 25 May 2019
Heimspiel 2018
Kunst Halle St. Gallen, 14 Dec – 10 Feb 2019
Prix Photoforum
Centre PasquArt Biel/Bienne, 3 Dec – 14 Jan 2018
Werkschau graduation show
Lucerne fair, 24 Jun – 2 Jul 2017
PERFORMANCES & SOCIAL INTERVENTIONS
2023
2022
2021
True Connection Comes Through, 3năm Studio, Ho Chi Minh City, 4 Feb
To Close With A Golden Key, 22nd Biennial Sesc_Videobrasil, São Paulo, 22 Oct
Gatherings, Angkor Photo Festival & Workshops, Siem Reap, 14 Jan
For the dead and living soulds, ptth:// Lucerne, 18-19 November
Gatherings, various ateliers in Lucerne, 15-17 Nov
Diasporic Food Experience, Photoforum Pasquart Bienne, 5 Nov
Mời,mời, , Jungkunst Winterthur, 28-30 Oct
PUBLIC ART (Kunst-und-Bau)
AWARDS, GRANTS & NOMINATIONS
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2024
2024
2023
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2023
2022
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2021
2021
2020
2019
2017
2017
2017
Freiraumbeitrag / Working Stipend, Canton of Zurich
True Picture Award Nomination
C/O Berlin Talent Nomination
FUTURES Photography Talent (nominated by Photoforum Pasquart Biel/Bienne)
Werkbeiträge / Artist Grant, Canton of Zurich, Finalist
Kiefer Hablitzel | Göhner Art Prize, Finalist
Nomination A New Gaze (Vontobel Contemporary Photography Prize)
True Picture Award Nomination
Förderbeitrag / Artist Grant, Canton of Thurgau
Goldene Feder Award, Coucou Magazin
whoiswho Thurgau 2022
C/O Berlin Talent Award Nomination
Research Grant, Canton of Thurgau
Shortlist 30unter30, Schweizer Journalist
Nomination Prix Mobilière 2020
Nomination Prix Photoforum, Biel/Bienne
Shortlist Photoboox Award, Lucca (IT)
Nomination Alumni HSLU Award
2023
2023
Research Trip, Cambodia. Pro Helvetia
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
2024
2023
2022
2020
2019
Canton St. Gallen, City of Winterthur, Kantonsschule Romanshorn
Volkart Foundation, Photo Library at Swiss Photo Foundation
Kunstmuseum Thurgau
City of Winterthur
Canton Appenzell Interrhoden
PUBLICATIONS
2017
Hiếu Thảo – With love and respect, self-published (artist book)
TALKS
2023
2023
2023
2021
2019
Discussion, Cultural Conference Canton of St. Gallen: “How/we”
Artist talk Sparx, Kiefer Hablitzel Göhner Show, Basel
Artist talk Matca, Making of Makét 02, online
Artist talk UBS sponsor event at Jungkunst, Winterthur
Discussion, University of Applied Science Lucerne:
„Invent and re-invent yourself: defining the future of jobs in the creative marketplace“
TEACHING + SUPPORT
2024
mentoring Dima Assad organised by Centre de la photographie Genève, Aug – Jan 2025
coaching Indu Antony during her research trip in Switzerland by Pro Helvetia, Aug – Sep
MEMBER OF
near. swiss association
for contemporary photography
Authority Collective
ENGAGEMENT
ongoing
Siselabonga
creative director (visual)
PRESS (selection)coming soon
PAST CLIENTS, COLLABS & FRIENDS (a selection)Alnatura Schweiz, Beobachter Magazin, CH Media, Coucou Magazin, Film Lodge, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Hochschule Luzern – Design & Kunst, Hodinkee Magazine, Kanton Thurgau, Der Landbote, Médecins Sans Frontières Suisse, Monocle Magazine, NZZ Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Reporter:innenforum Schweiz, Saiten Magazin, SRF Kultur, Stadt Winterthur, Stadtentwicklung Zürich, VSSM, Quanta Magazin, Werde Magazin (Weleda)