Phạm Nguyễn Anh Tú

Image: Portrait of Phạm Nguyễn Anh Tú

Phạm Nguyễn Anh Tú is a visual artist born and raised in Saigon, Vietnam. He studied film at the University of Wisconsin, USA, and is currently pursuing contemporary art at the Staedelschule in Germany. Tú often works with moving images and performances by combining amateur drag personas with mass-media materials. Via images and installations in physical settings, he creates surreal and fantastical temporalities, often mixed with humorous elements, and his contemplations on identity and memory as they move through different contexts.

He has received the Prince Claus Fund Seed Award, the 9th International University Visual Arts Award, the PULSE Award, the Dogma Prize, and the Ignite Creativity Grant from the Goethe-Institut. His works have been showcased at the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, the 4th Thailand Short Film and Video Festival, the Stuttgart International Film Festival, Kassel Dokfest, and the International Film Festival New Mexico Experiments in Cinema, among others.

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Images of Liên Phạm’s open library at AirHue