Photo by Tamara Blake Chapman
Xuân-Lam Nguyen (Nguyễn Xuân Lam)
B. 1993, Hanoi, Vietnam
xuanlam.nguyen@fulbrightmail.org
Xuân-Lam is a multidisciplinary artist known for his breakthrough project, Folk Painting: The Remake, which revitalizes and reintroduces forgotten Vietnamese folk art to the new generation. Since 2016, when folk art was deeply unpopular and marginalized within local contemporary art institutions, he has championed folk paintings' significance while exploring their potential and relevance to present-day issues. Interplaying between painting, drawing, digital art, printmaking, and sculpture, Xuân-Lam’s approach fuses the practices of an archaeologist and a disc jockey, characterized by exuberant gradients and maximalism. With a body of work that assembles like a Rubik's cube, his current series investigates 19th- and 20th-century Indochina Orientalism photographs, displaced cultural artifacts, and autobiographical elements, exploring the intricate intersections of queer identity and glitchy historical narratives, transforming archival references drawn from the past, and rebuilding new potentials for the future.
Xuân-Lam holds a BFA from Vietnam University of Fine Arts. He is the first Vietnamese painter to receive a Fulbright scholarship from the U.S. Department of State, currently pursuing an MFA in Painting at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in Providence, RI.
Before arriving in America, Xuân-Lam’s solo show Rendezvous between the Old & the New was co-sponsored by the Vietnam National Museum of History and the Vietnamese Women’s Museum. He has participated in group exhibitions at the Vietnam Pavilion, World Expo 2020 in Dubai, UAE, and various public art projects in Vietnam. Xuân-Lam won first prize in the art competition commemorating 45 years of Vietnam-Germany diplomatic relations, the XVI edition of Giornata del Contemporaneo, and has created several public art projects in Hanoi. In 2023, the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands commissioned him to create artwork marking the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the Netherlands and Vietnam. In 2024, the French Development Agency commissioned him to design a public artwork for the inauguration of the Hanoi Metro Line 3. Xuân-Lam's work is part of the art collections of the German Embassy, the Italian Embassy, the Netherlands Embassy, and the National Assembly of Vietnam.
Xuân-Lam Nguyen (Nguyễn Xuân Lam)
B. 1993, Hanoi, Vietnam
xuanlam.nguyen@fulbrightmail.org
Xuân-Lam is a multidisciplinary artist known for his breakthrough project, Folk Painting: The Remake, which revitalizes and reintroduces forgotten Vietnamese folk art to the new generation. Since 2016, when folk art was deeply unpopular and marginalized within local contemporary art institutions, he has championed folk paintings' significance while exploring their potential and relevance to present-day issues. Interplaying between painting, drawing, digital art, printmaking, and sculpture, Xuân-Lam’s approach fuses the practices of an archaeologist and a disc jockey, characterized by exuberant gradients and maximalism. With a body of work that assembles like a Rubik's cube, his current series investigates 19th- and 20th-century Indochina Orientalism photographs, displaced cultural artifacts, and autobiographical elements, exploring the intricate intersections of queer identity and glitchy historical narratives, transforming archival references drawn from the past, and rebuilding new potentials for the future.
Xuân-Lam holds a BFA from Vietnam University of Fine Arts. He is the first Vietnamese painter to receive a Fulbright scholarship from the U.S. Department of State, currently pursuing an MFA in Painting at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in Providence, RI.
Before arriving in America, Xuân-Lam’s solo show Rendezvous between the Old & the New was co-sponsored by the Vietnam National Museum of History and the Vietnamese Women’s Museum. He has participated in group exhibitions at the Vietnam Pavilion, World Expo 2020 in Dubai, UAE, and various public art projects in Vietnam. Xuân-Lam won first prize in the art competition commemorating 45 years of Vietnam-Germany diplomatic relations, the XVI edition of Giornata del Contemporaneo, and has created several public art projects in Hanoi. In 2023, the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands commissioned him to create artwork marking the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the Netherlands and Vietnam. In 2024, the French Development Agency commissioned him to design a public artwork for the inauguration of the Hanoi Metro Line 3. Xuân-Lam's work is part of the art collections of the German Embassy, the Italian Embassy, the Netherlands Embassy, and the National Assembly of Vietnam.
Photo by Tamara Blake Chapman
Designed by Xuân Lam © 2025
Designed by Xuân Lam © 2025