Thúy-Vân Vu Education
  • 2006
  • MFA, Painting, Department of Art & Art History, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
  • 1998
  • BFA Painting, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
  • 1997-1998
  • RISD European Honors Program, Rome, Italy
Exhibitions
  • 2007
  • Nexus: A Group Exhibition, Sam Lee Gallery (Los Angeles, CA)
  • 2006
  • Creative Research Laboratory, MFA Thesis Exhibition (Austin,TX)
    Group Exhibition, Mass Gallery (Austin, TX)
  • 2005
  • Drawn In, Kirkland Arts Center (Kirkland, WA)
    Group Exhibition, Refraction Arts (Austin, TX)
    Shade, The Creative Research Laboratory (Austin, TX)
    Group Exhibition, Studio 107 (Austin, TX)
  • 2004
  • In::formation, Creative Research Laboratory (Austin,TX)
  • 2002
  • Juried Exhibition, Center on Contemporary Art Northwest Annual (Seattle, WA)
  • 1998
  • Group Exhibition, Palazzo Cenci (Rome, Italy)
Awards & Honors
  • 2004
  • Cohen New Works Festival Grant
  • 2003
  • David Bruton, Jr. Graduate Fellowship, Department of Art & Art History, University of Texas at Austin
  • 1994
  • Artist Grant, Mesa Contemporary Arts, Phoenix, Arizona
  • 1993
  • Balfour Minority Scholarship, Rhode Island School of Design
Collaborations
  • 2006
  • Video Installation for Box 7.1, a collaboration with Laura Quattrochi of Shua Grou
    The Construction Company, NYC
    Video Installations for Fear of a Führer, a collaboration with Abi Basch, playwright
    The Blue Theater, Austin, TX
    Cohen New Works Festival, Austin,TX
  • 2004
  • Video installation for Body-Ritual-Surface-Repeat, a collaboration with Abi Basch
    Lab Theater/UT Austin, Austin, TX
Teaching Experience
  • 2006
  • Teaching Assistant, Video Performance
    Teaching Assistant, Intermediate Painting
  • 2005
  • Teaching Assistant, Intermediate Painting
  • 2004
  • Teaching Assistant, Life Drawing
    Teaching Assistant, Beginning thru Advanced Painting
  • 2003
  • Teaching Assistant, Beginning Painting
Publications
  • 2006
  • Intersections, Women's and Gender Studies in Review: 'Gender in a Global State,' Issue IV, Fall 2006
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