Vân-Nhi Nguyễn is an artist working across photography, archival collage, and installation based in Hanoi. Her practice explores how contemporary life is shaped by memory and unresolved histories. Returning to questions of personal, familial, and collective remembrance, she examines themes of identity, intimacy, motherhood, and the tensions between cultural tradition and modern life through a distinctly Vietnamese lens. Through staged domestic scenes and collages assembled from stock imagery alongside her own photographs, she creates layered, sculptural images that move between careful construction and improvisation.

Most recently, in Galerie Quynh's group exhibition '𝑇ℎ𝑎̆́𝑚 𝐿𝑎̣𝑖' (2026), curated by Anh Dao Ha, she turned her attention to female friendship and the quiet intimacies through which young Vietnamese women navigate cultural inheritance and contemporary life.

Vân-Nhi's work has been presented at Objectif Centre for Photography & Film, Hong Kong International Photography Festival, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Peckham 24, and Matca Space for Photography, among others. She has received support from the Aperture Foundation, Pro Helvetia, the V&A Museum, and PhMuseum. Her work is held in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York.

Photo: Nguyen Duy Anh