Bui Cong Khanh’s work explores historical and contemporary issues in Vietnam. As one of the first local artist to gain international recognition during the 1990s, Khanh embraces painting and sculpture to express his fascination with the complex history of Vietnam. More recently, his works, such as the blue and white porcelain vases and the portrait of himself and Buddha, are reflective of the dichotomy of his fast changing nation. Deeply philosophical and reactive to the world around him, Khanh is one of Vietnam’s most intriguing young artists.

Born in 1972, Danang, Vietnam. Lives and works in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
EDUCATION
BFA, Oil Painting Department, University of Fine Arts, Ho Chi Minh City
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010
JUICE,
Java Café in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
SAFE, L’USINE, Ho
Chi Minh City, Vietnam
LIFE IS CONSUMPTION,
SAN ART, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
2005
Painting
and installation THE SOUVENIR, Mai’s Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
2004
Painting,
Installation, and Performance I AND THE WHAT, Mai’s Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City,
Vietnam
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014
THE
ROVING EYE: contemporary Art from Southeast Asia, ARTER, Istanbul, Turkey
Sensorium 360°: contemporary Art and the Sensed World, Singapore Art
Museum, Singapore
2013
Concept Context Contestation, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC), Bangkok, Thailand
2013
Art Basel 13, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong
2012
Four
Rising Talents from South East Asia, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong
2011
10
Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong
“The Past Moved”
Asia-Pacific Breweries Foundation Signature Art Prize, Singapore Art Museum,
Singapore
2010
Making
History, Esplanade, Singapore
2009
The
Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT)-Queensland’s Art Gallery, QLD,
Australia
INTERSECTION
Vietnam : New Works from North & South, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Singapore
INTERSECTION
Vietnam : New Works from North & South, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia
TIME LIGAMENTS
contemporary Vietnamese artists,10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong
Who do you think
we are…?, Bui Gallery, Hanoi, Vietnam
2007
Future”
at SanArt Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Young Artists
Exhibition at Hanoi Fine Arts University, Vietnam
2006
Exhibition
and Performance at Java Café, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2005
International
Performance Art Festival Asiatopia 2005, Bangkok, Thailand
The Man Makes
Rain, Video art at House World CulturBerlin, Germany
Taiwan
International Performance Art Festival (Reaching Outlying-2005TIPALive.)
Young Artists
Exhibition at Saigon South Arts Center, Vietnam
2004
Sea Arts
Festival, Busan Biennale, Korea
International Art
Performance in Kwang-Ju, Biennale, Korea
International Art
Performance Congress, Welcome Gold, Seoul, Korea
NIPAF Asian Performance
Art Series, Japan
Young View
Competition, Centre Culturel Francais de Hanoi, 2nd Prize
2003
Performance,
Blue Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Installation and
Performance at Binh Quoi village, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Hoi An artist
Club Exhibition, The Color, Vietnam
Participated in
Arts Exhibition: Seoul-Asia Art Now, Seoul, South Korea
2002
Installation,
Performance and Arts Exhibition: Hoi An’s People, La Gai Arts Space, Vietnam
Participated in
“Windows to Asia arts network” (ANA) Vietnam Workshop
International
Performance Art Festival ASIATOPIA 2002, Bangkok, Thailand
International
workshop: MELTING POT, Toulouse, France
Vietnam
Multifaceted, Toulouse, France
Tiedeux du Sud,
Impressions Gallery, Paris, France
2000
painting
and performance with Korean artists, Arts Exhibition for World Peace, GANA
gallery Seoul, South Korea
1999
Group
Exhibition by young artists at Blue Gallery, Da Nang City, Vietnam
1998
Group
Exhibition by Young Artists, Viet Nam Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
1997
Installation
Arts Exhibition Who Am I? with French and Vietnamese students
1996
Annual
Exhibitions of the Young Club, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
AWARDS
2011
An
artwork titled “The Past Moved” has been selected among the 15 finalists at the
Asia-Pacific Breweries Foundation Signature Art Prize 2011 competition and is currently
being exhibited at the Singapore Art Museum.
2005
Winner of Fullbright Fellowship at Vermont
Studio Center, VT, USA
2004
Young
View Competition, Centre Culturel Francais de Hanoi, 2nd Prize
RESIDENCIES
2010
Visual
Art Residence 2010 at Chateau de la Roche Jacquelin (Maine-et-Loire), France