KV Duong – Associate Artist

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A black-and-white photo of an Asian young man standing in front of a large unstretched canvas overed in marks of paint. He has paint marks over his nose. His body is covered in paint from the neck down. He gazes into the distance with a serious expression.

KV Duong (b.1980 Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam) is a London-based artist with a practice that spans painting, sculpture, and performance. Duong grew up in Canada to Chinese Vietnamese parents displaced by the Vietnam War. In his work he explores themes of migration and cultural assimilation, through a re-examination of his parents’ and his own experiences. War trauma and integration correlate with the artist’s coming out as a gay Asian man.

Duong is a self-taught artist with a background in structural engineering. He has contributed to several juried competitions including Derwent Art Prize (2016), Discerning Eye (2020), Royal Cambrian (2021, 2022) & Royal Ulster Academy Open (2021), Barbican Arts Group Trust Open (2021), BBC’s Royal Academy Summer Exhibition Programme (2019), Sky Landscape Artist of the Year (2022) and Migration Museum (2022).

Duong has performed at Stockholm Supermarket International Art Fair (2021) and at various London venues including Raymond Revue Bar.

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Gaze – Live body painting performance at Raymond Revue bar: Queer Frontiers, London UK. 2019

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Presidential Chair 2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Structural Integrity 2021