Phi Phi Oanh
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Phi Phi Oanh
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Contributor Item Type Metadata
First Name
Phi Phi
Surname or Business Name
Oanh
Years Affiliated
2018
Birth Date
1979
Birthplace
United States
Occupation
Artist
Biographical Text
Phi Phi Oanh’s work is informed by her inquiry into lacquer as a material combined with her studies of the Vietnamese lacquer painting (sơn mài) tradition. Drawing from the hybrid nature of her personal history, Oanh constructs pictorial and evocative installations that reconfigure culturally-specific signs and symbols, creating familiar yet distinctive experiential spaces. In 2004 she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study traditional Tranh Sơn Mài (Vietnamese lacquer painting) in Hanoi, which has since become a key medium in her practice. She has had solo exhibitions at L’Espace, Alliance Française in Hanoi; Artcore in Los Angeles; Art League in Houston; as well as El Palacio Nacional de la Cultura in Managua. In 2016, she was commissioned to create Pro Se, a work for the National Gallery Singapore and also showed her monumental Specula in the Singapore Biennale (2013).
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“Phi Phi Oanh,” NTU CCA Singapore Digital Archive, accessed May 7, 2024, https://ntuccasingapore.omeka.net/items/show/790.