(b. 1988, Thanh Hoa, Vietnam. Lives and works in Hoi An, Vietnam)

Lê Thúy is a visual artist whose practice moves between painting, sculpture, and installation, grounded in a sustained inquiry into memory, loss, and the transformation of landscape in contemporary Vietnam. Her work reflects an enduring sensitivity to the fragile relationship between people, land, and time.

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Working with silk, lacquer, embroidry, and found materials, Thúy constructs quiet, immersive environments that resist spectacle. Rather than documenting change, her installations hold its residue, traces of displacement, erosion, and continuity embedded within material form. Fragments of wood, broken instruments, and elements drawn from everyday rural life appear throughout her work, carrying both personal and cultural memory.

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Rooted in Vietnamese craft traditions yet deliberately unsettled in their application, these materials are neither preserved nor restored. Instead, they are reconfigured as sites of tension, where memory is partial, unstable, and continually renegotiated. Her practice asks what remains when systems of knowledge, labour, and belief begin to fade and how these remnants might still speak.

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Thúy graduated from the Vietnam University of Fine Arts, Hanoi, in 2013. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid (2025); the 11th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT11), QAGOMA, Brisbane (2024); and The Sovereign Asian Art Prize, Hong Kong (2022). Recent solo exhibitions include Desolation at A2Z Art Gallery, Paris (2024), and The Silence is Deafening at Vin Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City (2020).