My-Lan Hoang-Thuy

Highly ambitious in their aesthetic exploration, My-Lan Hoang-Thuy’s works combine her delight in a variety of materials, glacial colors and everyday narratives. Precious without being decorative, her art is created through an inversion of gestures, the refinement of various techniques and a staging of the self, all contributing to the invention of a new language.

In producing her tactile and structural works, My-Lan Hoang-Thuy devises her own methods, departing from all conventions. Acrylic is used both as a surface and a medium: adding layer upon layer of the paint that she allows to solidify, the artist develops her images like sculptures, on which she places—like sedimentary deposits—glued papers, printed images and all kinds of small objects. These fragments, which take on the role of fetishes, are complimented by painterly gestures that form motifs and bursts of color. From this process, a kind of shifting climate of moods emerges, where the present is filtered through the sieve of emotions, as the biographical inclines towards the universal.

My-Lan Hoang-Thuy (b. 1990 in Bourg-la-Reine) graduated in applied arts from the Ecole Duperré in 2015 and then the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2018, where she was awarded the Graduate Photography Prize, before exhibiting her work at the Salon de Montrouge. Her first personal, institutional show was held at the MEP (Paris) in 2023. She has participated in several collective exhibitions such as the Artpress Biennial for Young Artists at the Saint- Étienne Museum of Modern Art in 2020, the FRAC Grand Large (Dunkirk), the Stedelijk Museum in Schiedam (Netherlands) and at Paradise Row (London), at the invitation of Nicolas Bourriaud. Her works feature in the Regional Contemporary Art Collections (FRAC) in Champagne-Ardenne, Auvergne and Nouvelle-Aquitaine.