Yui Nguyen
Academic Artist
10
Years in Practice
Dead Sea
Biển cạn
Medium:
Watercolor
Size:
60 x 40 cm
23.6 × 15.7 in
Year:
2021
A stilted guard hut rises over tidal flats under a fast sky of cobalt and white. The watercolor moves in slashes and washes, so banks, pools, and reflected posts read as fluid bands rather than precise depth. Rust browns and indigo meet at the horizon where a yellow break suggests late light. The subject points to Tan Thanh Beach in Go Cong, a coast known for shallow, muddy waters, black alluvial sand, and clam grounds marked by posts and simple huts, especially visible at low tide. These details anchor the image in a real shoreline and explain the emphasis on exposed seabed and mirrored puddles.
about the artist
Yui Nguyen is a writer and visual artist in Ho Chi Minh City. He contributes cultural pieces to Vietcetera, where his work connects everyday life to design, language, and craft, in a clear, conversational voice. In the studio he moves between painting, calligraphy, and language experiments. He co-leads Our Vietnamese Project with Pham Phan Nhan, a research practice that treats Vietnamese as a living system inside computational art.
In 2025 the project was named a Lumen Prize Literature and Poetry Award finalist. The shortlist credits Nhan Phan and Yui Nguyen for work that probes the monosyllabic structure of Vietnamese through custom tools and poetics.