Visual Artist
Thi My Lien Nguyen
Thi My Lien Nguyen (b. 1995) is a Swiss artist and photographer of Vietnamese origin, based in Winterthur. Her practice explores themes of belonging, memory, and post-migrant realities through photography, moving image, food, installation and participatory methods. With a sociopolitical lens, she traces cultural memory through rituals, gestures and everyday encounters.
Her work has been shown at Biennial Sesc_Videobrasil (São Paulo), Athens Photo Festival (Benaki Museum), Fotostiftung Schweiz, and Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, and is held in public collections. In 2024, she was awarded the Freiraumbeitrag of the Canton of Zurich and completed residencies in Vietnam (Pro Helvetia) and London (Landis & Gyr). She is part of the curatorial team of Les Complices – a self-organized, community-based off-space in Zurich, dedicated to supporting the ideas and work of queer, trans, intersex, non-binary people, women*, and BIPoC.
Interests
social (engaged) / community art
spaces
archives
practice of sharing
Vietnam and Switzerland
gatherings
zines
diaspora
rituals
traditions
folklore
love
postcolonialism
publishing
communal practices
spirituality
poetry
lists
clouds
collages
꧁ talented friends and collaborators ꧂
Kay Zhang
Engy Mohsen
tracy september
Raisa Durandi
Laura Gauch
Lien Pham
Helene Leuzinger
Cédrine Scheidig
Janis Polar
Joël Hunn
Samuel Schalch
Vanessa Drummond
Dylan Wiedler
Olivier Samter
Anja Wicki
Lea Le
We Do Good
RAAW coffee
SŌNSŌN collective
Maison Faison
Gautschi Editions
Arnold Rahmenmanufaktur
VARY
Siselabonga