ABOUT

Hom Nguyen is a French artist of Vietnamese descent, born in Paris in 1972. Entirely self-taught, he works across pencil, charcoal, pastel, ink and acrylic to create large-scale portraits defined by instinctive gestures and expressive intensity.

At the heart of his practice are questions of identity, memory, exile and cultural heritage. These themes are closely connected to his personal history and to the experience of his mother, a Vietnamese immigrant who arrived in France in the 1970s.

Often blurred, fragmented or partially erased, Nguyen’s faces move between presence and absence, strength and vulnerability. Through portraiture, he explores both individual identity and the traces left by personal and collective memory.

His work has been widely exhibited in France and internationally, including presentations in Paris, London, Hong Kong and Singapore.