SOLO
EXHIBITIONS
2019 ‘I Am Not a Spy’, performance – Gallery 1010, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
2018 Be Mesmerized, commissioned by Acacia Fabrics – Hôtel des Arts Saigon, MGallery Collection, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
2013 Secular Tree, performance – Mai’s Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
2010 In Memoriam, performance – KCBT Art Space, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
GROUP
EXHIBITIONS
2021 B#Side Peripheral Memories – B#S Gallery, Treviso, Italy (forthcoming)
"Radical" Thoughts - TMP1, curated by Brooke Hoffert – Museum of Contemporary Art Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Of limits, curated by Of Limits Collective – Stamford Art Centre, Singapore
2020 ‘Alternate Space', curated by Anuradha Bansal – Gallery ONKAF, New Delhi
Unlearning – Richard Koh Fine Art, Gillman Barracks, Singapore
Knoxville Local, curated by Tri-Star Arts Project – East Tennessee Foundation, Tennessee, USA
Mana Digital Open House – Mana Contemporary & CADAF
Le Micro Festival de L’image de Serralongue #2 – Serralongue, France (postponed due to COVID-19)
Orange 8 – Zg Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA
2019 The Foliage III, curated by Mizuki Endo – commissioned by Vincom Center for Contemporary Art, Hanoi, Vietnam
Ringer – A1 LabArts, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Painting Exchange – Fine Arts Center Gallery, Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA
Back for Seconds – Gallery 1010, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Dogwood Arts Regional Art Exhibition, juried by Brian R.Jobe, Emporium Center for Arts & Culture, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Femissance: Period Piece, curated by the Women’s Coordinating Council – Birdhouse, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Domestic Oasis – Gallery 1010, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Obscura, curated by the Big Camera – A1LabArts, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Art Future – Art Formosa, Taipei, Taiwan
2018 The Dirty Dozen – Downtown Gallery, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Love and Desire, curated by Zhuang Wubin – Puppet Platform, Hanoi, Vietnam
2017 Ke: History of Now – Wedeman Gallery, Newton, Massachusetts, USA
Vietnam Artist Books Project, curated by Bay Library – the Netherlands International Film Festival, Utrecht, Netherlands
Vietnam Artist Books Project, curated by Bay Library, Rabbits Road Press & OOMK Zine! – Rabbits Road Institute, London, UK
Bangkok Art Book Fair 2017 – Bangkok CityCity Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
Revive – Inlen Photo Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
The Singapore Art Book Fair 2017 – Gillman Barracks, Singapore
Installation, XEM Collective – Inlen Photo Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Art For You 6 – Mai’s Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
2016 Under One Sky, Imago Mundi’s itinerant exhibition – Dianxi Science and Technology Normal University, Lincang, Yunnan, China
Vietnam Artists Book Project – The Editorial Marketplace, Asia Art Archive and Vernacular Institute – Taipei Biennial 2016, Taipei, Taiwan
Limited 'n Infinite, site-specific installations – Heritage Space, Hanoi, Vietnam
Saigon Artbook – The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
The Singapore Artist Book Fair 2016 – ArtScience Museum, Singapore
Out of Museum – Sao La Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City Fine Arts Museum, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
2015 March: Art Walk – Sao La Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City Fine Arts Museum, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
2013 Conceptual Photography Project, curated by Zhuang Wubin – Zero Station, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
2012 The Red Thread, performance – KCBT Art Space, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
HONORS
2021 Nominated for The 2021 Sovereign Asian Art Prize, Hong Kong
OSGF Individual Grant – Oak Spring Garden Foundation, USA
FA Award – The Hambidge Center for Creative Arts & Sciences, USA
2020 W. K. McClure Scholarship, The Center for Global Engagement, UTK
Extraordinary Professional Promise, Chancellor’s Honors, University of Tennessee
Terry Burnette Memorial Scholarship, School of Art UTK
Orin E.Erma Gaff Scholarship, School of Art UTK
Graduate Student Senate Travel Award, by the Dean of the Graduate School UTK
2019 Riedel Fellowship, juried by the Ragdale Curatorial Board, Ragdale Foundation
Dorothy N Dille Art, School of Art UTK
Art Future Prize, Special Jury Prize, list of 15 emerging young artists in Asia
2018 Fulbright Scholarship, funded by the U.S. Department of States
The International World Fellowship, funded by The DKG Society International, Leading Women Educators Impacting Education Worldwide:
World Fellowship recipients for 2018-2019 & additional funds for 2019-202
2017 Nominated for Forbes 30 under 30 2018
2016 Vietnam Artists' Book Prize, juried by Indochina Arts Partnership, funded by CDEF Grant, Danish Cultural Development and Exchange Fund
2014 First prize, 'Red memoirs', Bazaar compatible program #71: RED, Une exposition de peinture, Commissariat: The Observatory HCMC
RESIDENCIES
2021 Interdisciplinary Residencies – Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Upperville, Virginia, USA (forthcoming)
Creative Residency Program – The Hambidge Center for Creative Arts & Sciences, Rabun Gap, Georgia, USA
2019 Ragdale Artist Residency – Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, Illinois, USA
2018 Art, War and Genocide Residency – Lycoming, Maine, USA
2016 Month of Arts Practice – Heritage Space, Hanoi, Vietnam
Artist in Residence – New Space Arts Foundation, Hue City, Vietnam
Demilitarized Zone Project, curated by Makiko Hara – DMZ Art Space, Hue City, Vietnam
2015 Muong AIR – Muong Cultural Heritage Museum, Hoa Binh, Vietnam
EDUCATION
2021 MFA Studio Art, School of Art University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
2012 BA Interior Design, Ho Chi Minh City University of Architecture, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
2007 AA Fine Arts, Ho Chi Minh City Fine Arts Association, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
ARTIST TALKS
2020 Special lecture: Lost and Forgotten History by Quynh Lam, Fulbright Scholar, coordinated by Dr. Najung Kim, ARTH 183 and ARTH 414 – McCarty
Auditorium, Art & Architecture Building UT Campus, Tennessee, USA
2019 Transformation in Art Practice – Vincom Center for Contemporary Art, Hanoi, Vietnam
Lincoln Memorial University’s first annual Fine Art Graduate Symposium – Paul V. Hamilton Center for the Arts, Harrogate, Tennessee, USA
ReVIEWING Black Mountain College 11, The BMC Museum + Arts Center, International Conference – Reuter Center, Asheville, North Carolina, USA
Featured artist: Quynh Lam - 2019 Riedel Fellow – Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, Illinois, USA
2016 The Birth Collection – The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
2015 Natural Organic Pigments in Painting – Muong Cultural Heritage Museum, Hoa Binh, Vietnam
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2021 Curatorial Collective ‘Of Limits’ Exhibition, by Of Limits Collective, Platform Projects 2020 Curatorial Award Recipients – Art & Market
In Conversation with Art Republik: Ace Lê and “Of Limits” exhibition in Singapore, by Trang Ps – Luxuo
A Brief History – Two Inadequate Voices
2020 In Her Own Words: An Interview with Artist Quynh Lam, by Christine White – Artists’ Books in Special Collections, The University of Tennessee
Library Development Review 2019-2020
Constructing Memory Through Archive, by Nicole Martin – MANA Contemporary
Frame to Focus: Vietnamese American Women Artists (forthcoming publication), sponsored by The Catherine G. Murphy Gallery,
published by Pomelo Press
Faire l’histoire des couleurs qui s’étiolent – Entretien avec l’artiste Quynh Lam, by Louis Raymond – Les Cahiers Du Nem
A History of Fading Colors — An Interview With Artist Quynh Lam, by Louis Raymond – Urbanist Hanoi
Review of 'Unlearning' at RKFA, by Ian Tee – Art & Market
The Renowned Art Gallery in Singapore Represented 7 contemporary Vietnamese Artists, by Ace Lee, translated by Trang Ps – Luxuo
October Round-Up, by Andari Suherlan – Art & Market
Quynh Lam: Rotting flowers and the politics of memory, interviewed by David Willis – Art & Market
Quynh Lam: On Vietnamese traditions and navigating censorship, interviewed by David Willis – Art & Market,
Artist at MANA: History and Present – MANA Contemporary
Contemporary works by emerging artists on display in Hanoi – Vietnamnet
An adventure of emotion – The People's Deputy Daily, The Voice of Vietnam National Assembly People's Council and People.
Layers of emotion with 'The Foliage III' – Hanoi Grapevine
The Foliage III - An Adventurous Experiment of Contemporary Art – Tuoi Tre
World Fellowship: In Her Own Words, page 57-58 – DKG Collegial Exchange, Volume 86-4 2020
2019 La Photographie Contemporaine Vietnamienne et la Mémoire (Sélection d’œuvres d’artistes Contemporains Vietnamiens ou de la
Diaspora Travaillant Leur Histoire), researched and written by Blanche Cardoner – École Du Louvre
Quynh Lam: Your Stories, Mnemonics – PHmuseum
Graduate Student Selected for Notable Residency, Fellowship – School of Art UTK
UT MFA candidate Quynh Lam communicates Vietnamese trauma, decay in her practice – Phoenix Magazine
MFA Student Nguyen Duc Diem Quynh Receives 2019 Art Future Prize – School of Art UTK
2018 In Art as In Life, by Dr. Shweta Kishore – RMIT University Melbourne
New Vietnamese Photography in Love and Desire – Matca, August issue
Love and Desire: A Reunion Show – written by Zhuang Wubin, Southeast Asia Photography
Vietnamese Folk Tales and Artist Quynh Lam – Saigoneer Podcast
Quynh Lam and Her Creativity from Natural Materials – VTC10 Netviet Stories
2017 Discovery Vietnamese Photography 2017, written by Quoc-Van Ninh – Goethe Institut Hanoi
Quynh Lam, a Peculiar Artist Who Picks Up Floral Remnants – ELLE Magazine, February issue
Revive, Inlen Artist Book, 2nd Issue
Installation, XEM Collective 7th Issue
Month of Art Practice 2016, page 108-111, catalogue
Open Innovation 2017, artwork showcased at TEDxHCM – SOUL Music & Performing Arts Academy
2016 Saigon Artbook 6th Edition – Tre Publishing House
After Curatorial Shift, Saigon Artbook Delivers Best Exhibition to Date, written by Zelda Rudzitsky – Saigoneer
Saigon Artbook 6 - Making Art Closer to Life – ELLE
Saigon Artbook Festival 2016 – VnExpress International
Saigon Artbook Comes Back on Large Scale – Vietnamnet
Saigon Artbook 6 Hosted by The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre – Saigoneer
Art Uncovered: The Saga of Saigon Artbook – VnExpress International
Saigon Artbook 6 Edition – Talk Vietnam
Saigon Artbook 6 and Underground Art Monuments – RGB
Saigon Artbook Comes Back – Saigon Times
Experience Strange Views of Saigon Artbook 6 - Lifestyle
Impression on Young Artist's View at Saigon Artbook 6 – Tuoi Tre Online
Saigon Artbook Launches 6th Edition, written Gemma Shaw – Bliss Saigon
Vietnamese Artists Excitedly Launched the Saigon Artbook, The Gioi Van Hoa
Vietnam Artist Books Project, the 8th Engaging with Vietnam Conference, Hawaii
Enduring Ephemeral – Vietnam Artist Book Project
Quynh Lam, Visual Artist, page 78-83, interviewed by Kelley Engelbrecht – Wonderfilled Magazine Volume Six
2015 Vietnam: New Winds Collection, curated by Neeraj Ajmani – Imago Mundi project, Luciano Benetton Collection, Fabrica Publisher, Italy
2011 Responsibilities of an Architect – Architecture & Living Magazine, November issue
A Female Philatelist – Saigon Tiep Thi Magazine, November issue
2010 Vietnamese Contemporary Artists Establish ‘KCBT Studio’ – Sports & Culture, August issue
First Opening at the KCBT Art Space – Tap Chi Van Nghe TFS, HTV9 Ho Chi Minh City Television