Nguyen Thi Bich Thuy
Pedagoggränd 11H, 301 Umeå 90 730
Ha Noi
Viet Nam
073 8281599 - 090 786 7160
thuyvnart@yahoo.com
www.nguyenbichthuy.com - www.a-site.org - www.co08.se

Name                  Nguyen Thi Bich Thuy

Date of birth        11 -7- 1970

Education

2009 - 2013
PhD candidate, Department of Culture and Media studies, Umea University, Sweden.
2008 - 2009
MA in Public Health, Umea University, Sweden   
2006 - 2008
MA in Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Arts - Umea University, Sweden   
2004 - 2006
Post graduate studies in Critical Culture, Vietnam Institute of Culture Studies.
1996 - 2001
BA, Art History and Criticism Department, .Hanoi University of Fine Arts
1991 - 1996
BA, Chinese – English Department, University of Foreign Studies

Employment History

2007
Guest Lecturer, Art History Department-Umea University, Sweden
2001 - 2009
Lecturer, Art History and Aesthetics, Hanoi University of Fine Arts
1999 - 2006
Freelance writer, various art and culture publications
1999 - 2006
Translator, Fine Arts Publishing House
1999 - 2006
Writer and translator, Kim Dong Publishing House

Exhibitions

Solo

2008
 “…On the way…” Gallery 60, BildMuseet, Umea, Sweden
2007
At the edge of Boundaries, Norrkoping Konsthallen, Sweden  
2006
The vision, Chile Embassy, Ha Noi, Vietnam

Group

2008
Master of Fine Art Graduate Show 2008, BildMuseet-Umea,Charlotte Lund – Stockholm, Sweden                
2007 - 2009
Changing identity, USA
2007
Filmfest, Umea, Sweden
2007
The Lottery , Gallery 60, BildMuseet. Gamlia, Umea, Sweden
2006
White Box Black Box, Umea konsthogskolan 4th grader , Skelleftea Konsthall, Sweden
2005
Tree Project, Hanoi University of Fine Arts (Exhibition organized by German Academic Exchange Service-Goethe Institute and Hanoi University of Fine Arts)
2005
Prague Biennale 2, Prague, Czechoslovakia
2005
Art in the Age of Technology, Yerevan, Armenia
2005 Generation, Galerie Nord, Berlin, Germany
2005
Video Vietnam, Karsulhhe, Germany
2004
Giving Water an Image, Hanoi University of Fine Arts, (Exhibition organized by German Academic Exchange Service and Hanoi University of Fine Arts)

Selected Publications

Art Articles

Konst-puliken ar stendod, Konstnaren, nummer tva 2006, Stockholm.
From Tea pot to Blue Installation, Fine Arts magazine, 5/2002
Pac II – The International workshop in Hanoi, Fine Arts magazine, 2/2005
The artist –teacher Le Trong Lan , Fine Arts magazine, 4/2003
Talk about the case of Antony Gormley, Fine Arts magazine, 11/2005-7/2005
The new year painting of Chinese people, Fine Arts magazine, 4/2005
The Asian Window workshop  – some comments, Fine Arts magazine, 12/2002
Vietnamese contemporary art – just feelings and talk, Fine Arts magazine, 8/2005
Loterite sculpture in the city space, Fine Arts magazine, 2/2003
And articles which written for different workshop.      

Art articles translation

Kadinsky, about spirit or soul in art
The concept of Mathiew about universe, Lilly Wei, Art News, 6/2005 
The ridiculousness of contemporary Art, Linda Yablonsky, 6/2005
Sign here, Mary Heus, 10/2004
Hu Jing Yuan- Sculptor who created Zhong Hua Ji Shi Yuan 10/2002

Books  For Kim Dong publishing house, The series of Art Master of the World

Raphael
Botero
Bethe Morisot
Lorincienne
Marcel Duchamp
Rivera
Max Ernst
Watteau
Brozino
Frida Kahlo
O’Keeffe
Colors of mountain and forest (a book which is written about religious paintings of ethnic minority in Vietnam)

Books Translations

Phan Cam Thuong, Chua Dau va Nghe Thuat Tu Phap (Dau Pagoda and the Art of Tu Phap Religion), Hanoi: Fine Arts Publishing House, 2002.
Charles Harrison and Paul Wood, Art in Theory: An anthology of changing Ideas 1900-1990
Corinne de’Menonville, Vietnamese Painting from Tradition to Modernity,
Manet
Van Gogh
Goya
Ancient China

Book have been working on:
Vietnamese contemporary arts in the last 15 years (1991-2006)
The female artists of Vietnam

Scholarship and Awards
 
2009
J C Kempe Memorial Found Scholarship
2008
Anna Lindhs Memorial Fund Award
2008
Ann-Margret Lindells scholarship
2008
J C Kempe Memorial Found Scholarship
2008
Rotary International Scholarship  
2007
J C Kempe Memorial Found Scholarship
2006
Sponsored guest lecturer on Vietnamese art, Swedish International
Development cooperation Agency.    
2003
Goethe Institute, Berlin, Germany

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