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Quynh Lam is a Vietnamese artist and Fulbright scholar whose research-driven practice explores history, memory, and identity through site-specific installations that often incorporate photography, video, painting, and performance. With a background in architecture and an MFA from the United States, her work engages deeply with cultural geography and spatial narratives shaped by colonisation, migration, and postwar experience.   
Among her recognitions are the 2021 American Austrian Foundation Prize for Fine Arts and the Special Jury Prize from Taiwan’s 2019 Art Future Prize—reflecting the growing resonance of her work and an artistic trajectory that spans borders, from Asia to Europe. Quynh has been also awarded fellowships and residencies at institutions such as the Santa Fe Art Institute (New Mexico), Fondation Fiminco (France), School of Visual Arts (New York), Salzburg Stiftung der AAF (Austria), Ragdale Foundation (Illinois), and the Oak Spring Garden Foundation (Virginia) – a legacy project of the Mellon family, as Paul Mellon’s wife reflects their shared values in the arts, nature, and cultural philanthropy.
Her solo performances have taken place at events such as London Gallery Weekend 2022 (Cromwell Place London), Berlin Art Week 2022 (ifa Gallery Berlin), ADAM Gathering and Taipei Arts Festival (Taipei Performing Arts Center), Spinnerei Archiv Massiv, MS Dauerwelle – Hochschule für Künste Bremen, Asia NOW 9th Edition at the Monnaie de Paris, and DRAC Occitanie Toulouse.

Her work has been featured in publications including Contre culture dans la Photographie Contemporaine (Textuel Éditions Paris), Black Mountain College Museum Arts Center Journal (Volume 12 Expanding the Canon), Female Land Artist Wanted (B#S Memorabilia, B#S Edizioni), Imago Mundi – Vietnam: New Winds (Luciano Benetton Collection, Fabrica Publisher), etc. and her artist books are held in collections such as MoMA and SAIC’s Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection.  
Highlights of her exhibition history include The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre (Ho Chi Minh City), The Vincom Center for Contemporary Art (Hanoi), Art Formosa (Taiwan), Mana Contemporary (Chicago) in partnership with CADAF (Contemporary Digital Art Fair), Stamford Arts Center (Singapore), Museum of Contemporary Art Nashville (Tennessee), Art Space Tetra (Fukuoka), Art Center Ongoing (Tokyo), Palazzo Costanzi Museum (Trieste), Moggio Udinese Fondazione Friuli (Udine), Museo Civico di Casa Maccari (Gradisca), Fondation Fiminco (Romainville x Paris) and Fondazione Merz (Turin).