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PRESS Package - Thông Tin Báo Chí 

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UUDAM CV, BIO

- CV: www.uudamstudio.com/cv

- Bio: www.uudamstudio.com/bio

- Vietnamese biography (Tiểu sử tiếng Việt): tại đây/here

UuDam Studio LOGO, ECO-Đi Logo here

ROBOTIC ARTWORK:

License 2 Draw - a crowd-sourcing, robotic remote control system to create artworks

with L2D robot cars, L2D sculptures and L2D Lasers

LIVE License 2 Draw MAP (bản đồ trực tuyến L2D)

It will pinpoint location of the L2D app user anywhere in the world

http://l2d.uudamstudio.com/map/

The L2D Map above to be viewed simultaneously while using the L2D app below (click or scan QR)

http://l2d.uudamstudio.com/l2d/?map=map001&bot=web004​​

VIDEO ARTWORKS

Selected video works (Các tác phẩm video chọn lọc):

-WALTZ OF THE MACHINE EQUESTRIANS

-SERPENTS' TAILS

-SERPENTS' TAILS MORNING

-ECO-ĐI

EXHIBITION DESIGN

THE JOURNEY to ECO-ĐI: 5 Works in 1 Design

WORK PORTFOLIO (Các tác phẩm chọn lọc)

License 2 Draw (Updated 2024)

     video License 2 Draw in action

TIME BOOMERANG (on-going) (updated 2025)

Waltz of The Machine Equestrians

SERPENTS' TALES I TAILS

Words Can Burn series

YELLING FACES (Publication draft for 2026)

​- Eco-Đi (perfomative artwork for millions)

Contemporary Saint Gióng

Country Weapon series

FUCK BUTTON (Updated 2025)

SOUND TRACK - Fuck Button

POP-UP PERFORMANCE

Fuck Buttons - Tate Modern Pop Up Show

Dickhead (Thinker)

Portrait of Emptiness (Buddha)

 

ReCreation

TALK/SPEECH

Keynote Speaker ECo-Đi at Jakarta Art - Indo Art Now

PUBLIC ART, Walking Tour

Phúc Tân Public Art - Hà Nội (open 24/7), featuring Saint Giong Mural and 15 other artists' artworks 

Travel to see Saint Giong in person: how to get there direction: maps.app.goo.gl

PLAY GROUND

Magic Crossbow (Sân chơi Nỏ Thần) - Playground from Concept to reality with Think PlayGrounds (Chu Kim Đức &  Nguyễn Tiêu Quốc Đạt) - Hà Nội 

Lê Thuận Uyên - Art & Social Action: Case Studies from the Mekong Region - Think Playgrounds - Creating a Playable Hanoi VIETNAM

​Travel to See it at Cổ Loa - Hà Nội 

Workshop Weapon Country - University of the Arts Singapore (NAFA)

​In God We Trust exhibition walk thru - NAFA - UAS 

Audio of the walkthru tour by the artist - NAFA - UAS on sound cloud

VIDEO CHANNELS:

​​- ALL VIDEOs on YOUTUBE

- ALL Videos on Vimeo

TIME BOOMERANG ( a multi-phased, on-going project from 2014-now)

Phase #2: The New Conqueror with a Good Passport  SCULPTURE-TRAVEL-PERFORMANCES

Time Boomerang: Conquering the World's 5 continents: PERFORMANCE

1. Conquering Europe Performance (Phase #2/8: Part 1: The New Conqueror with a Good Passport) - completed

2. Conquering America Performance ((Phase #2/8: Part 2: The New Conqueror with a Good Passport) - completed

3. Conquering Australia Performance ((Phase #2/8: Part 3: The New Conqueror with a Good Passport) - completed

4. Conquering Antarctica continent performance - to be announced from now till 2030

5. Conquering Africa continent performance  - to be announced from now till 2030

Map Breaking Performance: Phase #4 (TIME BOOMERANG, multi-phased, on-going project from 2014-now)

Tokyo -  Mori Art Museum - Time Boomerang Phase #4: Creating the Next Freaking World Order

Shanghai - Power Station of Art -  Time Boomerang Phase #4: Creating the Next Freaking World Order

USA -  Orange County Museum of Art - Time Boomerang Phase #4: Creating the Next Freaking World Order

Vietnam - A Farm - Time Boomerang Phase #4: Creating the Next Freaking World Order

INTERACTIVE WEB-BASED Crowd-sourcing Robotic ARTWORK 

License 2 Draw WEB VERSION (in collaboration with QAGOMA for Asia Pacific Triennale 8, APT8)

AIR KENETIC ARTWORK

Breath installation (Toong co-working space installation)

Long-term, On-Going Projects (Các Dự Án Lâu Dài - Đang diễn ra):

Large Scale 7-101 story building

PUBLICATION:​​

​Iola Lenzi - Power, Politics and the Street: Contemporary Art in Southeast Asia after 1970 - Lund Humphries

Sun Shower - Tokyo

IN God We Trust: Yelling Faces (NAFA publication)

ProRegress - Shanghai Biennale - China

Open Sea - Musée d'art Contemporain Lyon (France)

Asia Art Society - NYC

High Line Art - NYC

Esplanade Visual Arts - The Life of Things - Sam I-shan

SEA Contemporary Art In South East Asia - NTU CCA  - editor Boon Hui, Karin Oen, Ute Meta Bauer - Writer Nora Taylor, ... - Weiss Publication

Place. Labor. Capital - NTU - CCA - Singapore - editor Anca Rujoiu, Ute Meta Bauer - Mousse Publishing 

Freedom Is The Motorbike - Long Beach City College Gallery - USA

Phantasmagoria - Asian Art Biennale at National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts - Taiwan

Miền Méo Miệng - Bildmuseet Museum - Sweeden

Kadist San Francisco

The 8th Asia Pacific Triennale of Contemporary Art - QAGOMA - Australia

18th Japan Media Arts Festival - Tokyo

Illuminated Curiosities (Phổ Hiếu Kỳ) - NAF - Ace Le / Duong Manh Hung / Tam Nguyen

Imaginarium - To the End of the Earth - Singapore Art Museum (SAM) - Andrea Fam / John Savage 

Homo Faber: A Rainbow Caravan - Aichi Triennale 2016

High Line Art 2016-2017 - Cecilia Alemani / Melani Kress 

Việt Nam Sketch - Publisher Thanh Niên - 7/2022

Viet Nam Eye - Contemporary Vietnamese Art - Skira

Singapore Biennale 2013: If the World Changed - SAM

XEM 10 - 5 Friends 10 Years Art Infinite - Nanyang Academy of Fine Art (NAFA) - UAS

Miền Méo Miệng - Contemporary Art From VietNam - Bildmuseet, Umea University

2020 ACC Focus - Equilibrium - Asia Culture Center

Body/Play/Politics - Yokohama Museum of Art - Eriko Kimura

SunShower - Mori Art Museum

(no name underground) Sketchbook - Published by Rabbit Hole 

SEXoRGY & Beyond - UDSCA 

Vietnamese Portrait - UDSCA

STATEMENT OF ARTWORK

Yelling Faces

Waltz of The Machine Equestrians

Yelling Faces - IGWT - University of The Arts Singapore - NAFA campus exhibition

Podcast/Interview (English/sub):

- Queensland Museum - Asia Pacific Triennale 8 - Australia

- The Last Super - Oscar Venius : Artist UuDam on power dynamics, the Fuck Button, pollution in the Serpents Tail, and the role of technology and A.I. 

- The Fuck Buttons interview by Helen Jennifer Zhao

- Yokohama Art Museum interview by curator Eriko Kimura

- Eco-Đi interview by KKCĐ program (english sub) 

- Time Boomerang by Selina Ting - Cobo Social - Sun Shower - Tokyo - National Art Center Tokyo

Featured Articles (Các bài báo tiêu biểu):

- Vietcetera: UuDam Studio: Redefining Contemporary Art: UuDam Studio Blurs The Lines Between Sculpture, Performance, And Technology / Xoá mờ lằn ranh giữa điêu khắc, công nghệ và nghệ thuật trình diễn - Angie Tran

- Thể Thao Văn Hoá: Tác phẩm 'Eco- đi' của Ưu Đàm: Độc đáo với ý niệm 'Phượt thủ ngầu đi bằng đầu'- Hiền Hoà

- Thanh Niên: Vượt Thái Bình Dương 'chinh phục' thế giới - Ngọc An

- Báo ảnh Việt Nam: Đưa lịch sử vào sân chơi cho trẻ em - Bích Vân

- Wow Weekend (Vietnamese) - Phiêu Lưu Trong Những Ý Niệm - Lam Văn - 2025 (vn)

- Elle Decoration - Nguyễn Trần Ưu Đàm – Dịch chuyển trong nghệ thuật đương đại - Bài: PINK Q | Hình ảnh: NVCC | Minh họa: NAMI

- Wow Weekend (English) - Adventure in the Realm of Ideas - 2025 (eng)

- Brooklyn Rail - Sunshower: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia 1980s to Now - Vivian Li (on Time Boomerang)

- Occula - 8th Asian Art Biennial Looks Back to Look Forward - by Esther Lu

- New York Times - Casey Kaplan - Fearless Vampire Killers - Holland Cotter

- Art Spectacles Asia - 7 Asian Contemporary Art Exhibition must-see exhibitions of Asian contemporary art around the world

- Tuổi Trẻ: Hành trình ý niệm của Ưu Đàm - Hiền Hoà

- Ape Gov: INTERVIEW TO UuDam Tran Nguyen on his exhibition LICENSE 2 DRAW: CROWD-SOURCING Art Making/ Tạo dựng Nghệ thuật bởi Nguồn lực Cộng đồng- G.A

- Heritage: Rồng Rắn Lên chu du thế giới 

- Phụ Nữ: Nghệ sĩ Nguyễn Trần Ưu Đàm - Việt Nam đang thiếu không gian cho các tác phẩm nghệ thuật công cộng - Lam Hạnh

​- Wowweekend: The Art Corner: UuDam Trần Nguyễn: Nghệ thuật lật mở những lớp ý nghĩa chôn vùi - Quỳnh Anh - 2024

- Mai Trang Đào - ​

- LA Times - O.C. Museum of Art opens season 2 at its ‘Expand’ location - By Richard Chang

- OCWeekly - Smash it up - : Unleashing the Anarchist Within at OCMA - Dave Barton 

Academic Writings (Bài viết nghiên cứu):

- After Image Volume 47, Issue 3 - Toward a Feeling of Animacy Art, Ecology, and the Public Sphere in Vietnam - Brianne Cohen

- Art Monthly Issue No. 428_ Letter from Vietnam - Jonathan Watts

- Cobosocial: Art & Ecology in Vietnam (II): In Conversation with Uudam Tran Nguyen in Ho Chi Minh City - Louise Malcolm

- Vietcetera: Redefining Contemporary Art: UuDam Studio Blurs The Lines Between Sculpture, Performance, And Technology - Angie Tran

Gaia Agostini Interview on License 2 Draw (Heritage Space)

- Art Phil Reply Inteview on License 2 Draw

- David Willis - Imaginary Fault Lines: Absurdity & Violence in the Sculptural Practice of UuDam Tran Nguyen

- Hoàng PHong Tuấn - THE AESTHETIC OF DANGER IN THE WORKS OF ART BY ƯU ĐÀM

- Charles Ray - ​Aquarius (Jan 20 – Feb 18) not everyone wants what you are after, but the ones who do won’t make it easy

Selected Interviews (Bài Phỏng vấn chọn lọc):

RISD Museum Interview with artist UuDam Tran Nguyen

Cobo Social features Time Boomerang Project @ Sunshower Exhibiton by Selina Ting

Goethe Institute Hanoi - Artist UuDam interviewed by Tiến sĩ Trần Hoà Bình

Khoảnh Khắc Cuộc Đời 2020 | Nguyễn Trần Ưu Đàm - Nghệ thuật đương đại và đời sống

Art Repubpik UuDam Tran Nguyen - Nghệ sỹ lưu trú tại NTU CCA Khóa 3 (2016-2017) - Ace Leq

Helen Jennifer Zhao & Ưu Đàm Nguyễn – “Fuck Buttons” khám phá những hình thái của dục tính thế kỷ 21

Artist’s ‘Fuck Buttons’ Explore the Various Forms of Sex in the 21st Century

Galo Magazine Interview - Helen J. Zhao - The Fuck Buttons Art Installation

​An Viên TV - Phật Giáo - Suối nguồn cảm hứng cho nghệ sĩ Việt

​Nguyen Art Foundation interview with Quynh Nguyen, Tuyen Nguyen (Founder, Nguyen Art Foundation) and Thy Nguyen (Project Manager, Nguyen Art Foundation)

Davis Willis - Serpents' Tails at Gallery Quynh

Selected Museums Exhibition (Bảo Tàng Đã Triển Lãm tiêu biểu):

Nghệ sĩ Ưu Đàm đã triển lãm tại hơn 25 bảo tàng và không gian nghệ thuật uy tín của thế giới. Sau đây là một số bảo tàng với link dẫn dắt:

  • Singapore Art Museum

  • Bildmuseet Museum of Contemporary Art – Miền Méo Miệng (Sweeden)

  • Kaoshung Museum of Fine Arts

  • Esplanade Visual Arts

  • Kuandu Museum of Fine Art (Taiwan)

 

Social Media (Mạng Xã Hội):

Website

Instagram

Twitter

Facebook

UuDam Studio FaceBook Page

Tiktok

Linked In

 

XEM Collective - XEM Artbook (Nhóm XEM - Ấn phẩm XEM)

Other Art Museums/Venues (Các nơi đã triển lãm)

Workshop Weapon Country - University of the Arts Singapore

Yelling Faces - Singapore - UAS

Lim Hak Tai gallery - UA Singapore 

ECO-SUS - ICISE

National Museum of New Zealand Te Papa

Quynh Galerie (SAIGON)

Goethe Institut Hanoi

NTU CCA (Singapore)

Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle (Poland)

Aichi Triennale – Aichi Art Center (Nayoga), PLAT (Toyohashi), Okazaki

Art Stage Singapore 

Jim Thompson Art Center (Thailand)

BALLROOM MARFA (USA)

The White Chapel Gallery (London)

Asia Society Museum (NYC) 

Long Beach Community College Art Gallery (USA) - curator Habib 

Singapore Biennale 2013 (National Museum of Singapore)

Heritage Space  (Hà Nội - Việt Nam) - curator Anh-Tuan Nguyen

San Art Vietnam - 

Kadist Art Foundation (San Francisco) - curator Zoe Butt

INFORMATION - (THÔNG TIN)

Artist: UuDam Tran Nguyen (Nghệ sĩ: Nguyễn Trần Ưu Đàm)

Note: Please use both names of artist UuDam. For  example Nguyễn Trần Ưu Đàm (UuDam Tran Nguyen) so that the both the international and local audience can easily find your article on the internet search engine. Thank you very much.

Note: Qua nhiều năm hoạt động quốc tế, nghệ sĩ Ưu Đàm dùng tên theo cách tiếng Anh (UuDam Tran Nguyen). Do vậy, xin anh/chị trong phần đầu của bài báo mình, nếu được dùng cả 2 tên của nghệ sĩ Ưu Đàm. Đầu tiên là tiếng Việt: Nguyễn Trần Ưu Đàm và mở ngoặc là tiếng Anh (UuDam Tran Nguyen) trong bài viết 1 lần để khán giả quốc tế có thể Google tìm kiếm bài báo của anh/chị dễ dàng và tăng lượng truy cập. Xin cảm ơn

 

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