Tuong Danh

Tuong Danh is a multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, installation, and performance, based between Ho Chi Minh City and Da Lat. In 2022, Tuong Danh’s practice underwent a significant shift toward research into ancient Vietnamese cultural thought, including the I Ching, Buddhist philosophy, and the histories of Avalokitesvara, the Mother Goddess, and Tutelary Deity worship traditions — motivated by a sustained engagement with questions of identity and spiritual grounding as they intersect with queer existence.

Her ongoing series Cuu Ca emerges from this research, realizing dream imagery of sacred creatures from Vietnamese traditional culture through site-specific sculpture and installation made with local materials gathered across Vietnam. Her work has been presented at and with Á Space (Hanoi), MoT+++ (Ho Chi Minh City), Tamdem, NhacGay, Chomhom, Galerie Quynh 12 (Ho Chi Minh City), Curu – Saola (Da Lat), AirHue (Hue), Anatolia (Hanoi), No Cai Bum Festival (Da Nang), and Galerie Balice Hertling (Paris), among others.