NGUYEN XUAN LUC

Nguyen Xuan Luc (b.1983, former Ha Tay Province) currently lives and works in Hanoi. He graduated in lacquer painting from the Hanoi University of Industrial Fine Arts in 2007 and is a member of the Vietnam Fine Arts Association. Luc pursues Vietnamese lacquer as the central material in his practice, while occasionally experimenting with other materials and techniques as a way to expand his thinking and refine his creative skills.

n recent years, Luc has participated in and presented works at several notable exhibitions, including his solo exhibition Dust (2019); some group shows such as Lacquer & Paper (2020), Paths of Lacquer (2022) at the Vietnam National Fine Arts Museum; Dreaming about Foreign Lands (2021) and most recently, his solo show Beneath Layers of Time (2025) at Mo Art Space. He received First Prize from the Vietnam Fine Arts Association Awards in 2021 and Third Prize at the Young Artists Festival in 2017, alongside participation in various exhibitions in Vietnam and abroad, including Taiwan, South Korea, Russia, and Thailand.