Tuan Mami

b. 1981, Hanoi, Vietnam
Lives in Hanoi, Vietnam

Venue

1 Drexel Dr
New Orleans, LA 70125

Monday-Tuesday, Closed

Wednesday–Sunday, 11am–5pm

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Holiday Closures

December 23–January 3, Closed

Neighborhood

About the Artist

Tuan Mami is an interdisciplinary experimental artist consistently exploring new mediums and methods from different fields, including anthropology and social research, in increasingly meditative experiments with installation, video, performance, and conceptual art. He has been studying the concept of ‘mankind’, with a special focus on the transhistorical processes arising from social interactions between people and the environment. Mami re-constructs situations into ones that engage people or objects from a particular reality to enter and evolve together in a social process.

Mami studied graphic design at Hanoi Open University and graduated from Hanoi Fine Art University in 2006. He has held a number of solo exhibitions, including at Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago, IL; PØST, Los Angeles, CA; Art Rotterdam, Netherlands; Japanisches Palais Museum, Dresden, Germany; as well as projects at The Factory Contemporary Art Centre, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and Teratotera, Tokyo, Japan. Mami has also participated in many international exhibitions including at Changwon Sculpture Biennale 2014; Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, South Korea; Bonington Gallery, Nottingham, UK; University of Colorado Art Museum, CO; Haus Der Kunst, Munich, Germany; MOCA Taipei, Taiwan; 2020 Prague Biennale; and documenta fifteen. 

Previous Works

Tuan Mami, In One's Breath-Nothing Stands Still, 2014-2018.

Image courtesy of the artist.

Tuan Mami, In/Visible Borderline, 2016.

Performance at Nottingham Trent University. Image courtesy of the artist.

Tuan Mami, Myth East Mist, 2016.

ACC Gwangju. Image courtesy of the artist.

Tuan Mami, Vietnamese Immigrating Garden, 2022.

Installation view at Documenta 15 (2022), Kassel, Germany. Image courtesy of the artist

Tuan Mami, Mobile Temple, 2022.

Performance at the Taipei Performing Arts Center, Taiwan. Image courtesy of the artist.