
NGUYEN HOANG MINH KHOI _ NgKhoi _ Nguyen Khoi
Khoi is a multidisciplinary artist based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Nguyen Khoi graduated from high school with a major in the sciences department. He earned a bachelor's degree in multimedia arts from the University of Fine Arts in Ho Chi Minh City and a master's degree in fine arts at Falmouth University.
Furthermore, Khoi participated in artist-in-residence programs such as Tokyo University of the Arts in Japan, ERG in Belgium, and Chosun University in Korea.
In addition, he is also a co-founder of Chinbo Collective which is a contemporary art group in Vietnam.
Khoi is also an organizer and co-founder of the artists' residency program EAW in Dong Nai.
"I can be called an artist, or not. What I do might be called art, or not. Sometimes, I feel everything can be art. And because of that, art seems to not exist at all.
This paradox intrigues me. It creates spaces that waver between meaning and non-meaning, presence and absence. Paradox can be, as Boris Groys writes, a form of power equilibrium. It can also be an inevitable network of tensions, and I practice within it. I mostly work with household objects: assembling and re-presenting them. Through this process, I learn to empathize with others, with things, and with myself. This practice creates changes, at least in one person, even if only myself.
One day, I might erase these words. But for now, they are part of me, as art also is, or is not–me."
Education
2024 - 2026
Master of Fine Arts at Falmouth University, England
2017 - 2021
Bachelor of Multimedia Arts at Ho Chi Minh University of Fine Arts, Vietnam
Work Experiences
2021 - 2022
Assistant Lecturer at Ho Chi Minh University of Fine Arts
Solo/Duo Exhibitions
2025
Group Exhibitions/Screenings
2026
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Fragmented Connections, Falmouth University, Virtual, England.
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LIVING LABORATORIES, Vietnam Festival of Creativity & Design. Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam
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Arte Fare, Trong Gia Nguyen & Chillala House of Art, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam
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Futile Devices, Futile Devices Collective, MakerLab, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam
2025
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London Lift-Off Film Festival 2025, Lift-Off Global Network
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OPTIC, The Holy Art Gallery, Athens, Greece and Virtual Exhibition
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Modern Totem, O At Oh Art, Amanaki, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam.
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Annam Art Fair 2025, Annam Gallery, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam
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Lift-Off Filmmaker Session Festival Volumme 5, Lift-Off Global Network
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2017
Residency
2025
2024
2019
2018
2017
Residency at Silpakorn University, Thailand.
Residency at ERG Saint-Luc - School of Graphic Research, Belgium.
Residency at Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan.
Residency at Chosun University, South Korea.
Awards
2025
2024
2022
Nominated for the Finest Artist 2023-2024 award, organized by Hanoi Grapevine, Hanoi.
Second Prize of Vietnam Young Artists Festival in Ha Noi.
Press
2026
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Asian Art Contemporary. Interview | Ho Chi Minh City-based Artist Nguyen Khoi.
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Vietnam Fine Arts Magazine, Futile Devices - What is Art in the Age of Humans and Machines?
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Aesthetica Magazine, Learning Without Walls: Inside Falmouth University’s Online Art MA
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Tatler Asia, Arte Fare: Over 20 artists, 5 rotations, and an artistic convergence at Chillala.
2025
2024
2023