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Biography

Emerging from personal relationships and fortuitous encounters, Vo’s projects take their final form as objects and images that have accrued shifting layers of meaning in the world...

Danh Vo was born in Vietnam and currently lives and works in Berlin and Mexico City. Emerging from personal relationships and fortuitous encounters, Vo’s projects take their final form as objects and images that have accrued shifting layers of meaning in the world, whether through their former ownership, their proximity to specific events, or their currency as universal icons.

Vo’s works have been exhibited worldwide at institutions including the Pinault Collection - Bourse de Commerce, Paris (2023); Secession, Vienna, Austria (2021); MUDAM, Luxembourg (2021); The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan (2020); Winsing Arts Foundation, Taipei (2020); South London Gallery, UK (2019); the Guggenheim, New York; Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK), Copenhagen, Denmark; M+ Museum, Hong Kong; CAPC-Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, France (all in 2018). He previously exhibited at Aspen Art Museum (2016); the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany (2015); Palacio de Cristal, Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain (2015); Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico (2014); The Kitchen, New York, USA (2014); Musée d’art modern de la Ville de Paris, France (2013); the Villa Medici, Rome, Italy (2013); The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA, (2012); Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (2012); the Kunsthalle . Fredericianum, Kassel, Germany (2011); Artist Space, New York, USA (2010); and Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (2009)

In 2015 Vo won the Arken Art Prize, the Hugo Boss Prize from the Guggenheim Foundation in 2013, and the BlauOrange Prize, Berlin, Germany in 2007. He represented Denmark at the 2015 Venice Biennale. and was included in the 2019 and 2013 Venice Biennales, the Berlin Biennale in 2014 and 2010, the Singapore Biennale in 2011, and the Gwangju Biennale, South Korea in 2010.

Emerging from personal relationships and fortuitous encounters, Vo’s projects take their final form as objects and images that have accrued shifting layers of meaning in the world...

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Selected works

Danh Vo2.2.1861, 2009 - Handwritten letter by Phung Vo11 3/4 x 8 1/4 in. (29.8 x 21 cm) Inquire Danh VoMother Tongue, 2013Ink on paper, written by Phung VoPaper: 25 5/8 x 31 1/2 in. (65 x 80 cm)Frame: 27 1/4 x 33 1/8 x 1 3/8 in. (69.2 x 84.1 x 3.5 cm) Inquire Danh VoKitchen wall drawing, info TBC, 2014Wall drawing Inquire Danh VoTake My Breath Away, 2017Marble fragment from a standing male statue "Leg and Feet", Western Europe, Roman Empire, 2nd century A.D.28 5/16 x 21 1/4 x 16 1/2 in. (72 x 54 x 42 cm) Inquire Danh VoUntitled, 2021Pencil on paper and C-print, writing by Phung VoPaper: 16 1/2 x 11 3/4 in. (41.9 x 29.8 cm)Frame: 18 x 13 1/4 x 1 1/2 in. (45.7 x 33.7 x 3.8 cm) Inquire Danh VoFabulous Muscles, Take My Breath Away, 2018Bronze, writing by Phung VoWall drawing: 69 1/4 x 60 in. (175.9 x 152.4 cm)Sculpture: 48 x 8 1/4 x 8 in. (121.9 x 21 x 20.3 cm) Inquire

Exhibitions

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Danh Vo: Cathedral Block Prayer Stage Gun Stock

18 September - 1 November 2019 London

Animality

3 November - 17 December 2016 London

Sculpture 4tet: Luciano Fabro, Jean-Luc Moulène, Bruce Nauman & Danh Vo - curated by Jean-Pierre Criqui

12 January - 20 February 2016 London

Danh Vo: Homosapiens

15 January - 21 February 2015 New York

Dan Graham, Giuseppe Penone, Danh Vo, Jeff Wall

6 March - 10 April 2014 New York

Danh Vo: Mother Tongue

20 March - 27 April 2013

News

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Danh Vo In Situ - Akari by Noguchi

M+ Museum M+ invites Danh Vo to work on a long-term project in the museum’s atrium. Vo will use the space in organic and sustainable ways, reimagining it as a welcoming social zone that... 26 October 2024 Solo Exhibition

Danh Vo

Kunstenfestivaldesarts Danh Vo transformed a recently acquired 1970s Fiat hearse into a mobile flower shop nomadically serving the people of Brussels. 20 May - 1 June 2024 Group Exhibition

Cerith Wyn Evans, Tino Sehgal and Danh Vo - The Collection

Haubrok Foundation 23 April - 29 October 2023 Solo Exhibition

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Bourse de Commerce | Pinault Collection Danh Vo’s 'Tropeaolum' takes root in this greenhouse of metal, concrete, and stone to create a shifting territory where narratives become intertwined. 8 February - 24 April 2023 Group Exhibition

Tacita Dean, Pierre Huyghe, and Danh Vo - Avant l'Orage

Bourse de Commerce | Pinault Collection Avant l’orage invites visitors on a journey from shadow to light, through installations and works, some iconic, others new, by some fifteen artists, throughout the spaces of the Bourse de Commerce. 1 February - 11 September 2023 Group Exhibition

Portals

Hellenic Parliament Library & Printing House Danh Vo, Adrián Villar Rojas, and Steve McQueen participate in a group exhibition exploring our contemporary reality. 11 June - 13 December 2021 Group Exhibition

Aesthetics

TANK Shanghai The works of Yang Fudong and Danh Vo are featured in a group exhibition highlighting the private collection of Qiao Zhibing. 19 March - 11 October 2021 Group Exhibition

The Willfulness of Objects

The Bass Museum of Art The works of Cerith Wyn Evans, Tavares Strachan, Adrián Villar Rojas, and Danh Vo are featured in an exhbition exploring facets of human nature, history, and its surrounding environment. Long-term view Group Exhibition

Ice and Fire - A Benefit Exhibition in Three Parts

The Kitchen Nan Goldin and Danh Vo participate in a benefit exhibition at The Kitchen. 15 October 2020 - 31 January 2021 Solo Exhibition

DANH VO PRESENTS

Nivågård’s Malerisamling Danh Vo's first exhibition at the Nivaagaard Art Collection presents works from his collection of artists. 1 July 2020 - 1 July 2021 Solo Exhibition

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The National Museum of Art, Osaka The National Museum of Art, Osaka is pleased to present the first solo exhibition at a Japanese art museum by Danh Vo. 2 June - 11 October 2020 Solo Exhibition

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South London Gallery The South London Gallery presents 'Untitled,' by Danh Vo, a major solo exhibition, which continues Vo’s internationally-acclaimed conceptual practice, in which he weaves together archival fragments and personal references, often evoking experiences... 19 September - 24 November 2019 News

The 2019 Venice Biennale

Marian Goodman Gallery is delighted to announce our artists’ participation in the 58th Venice Biennale titled “May You Live in Interesting Times.” Leonor Antunes will represent Portugal at this year’s Venice Biennale;... 11 May - 24 November 2019 Group Exhibition

Noguchi for Danh Vo: Counterpoint

M+ Museum 'Noguchi for Danh Vō: Counterpoint' is organized as a unique dialogue between two artists: Isamu Noguchi and Danh Vo. The exhibition articulates this conversation through a range of works by Noguchi that... 16 November 2018 - 22 April 2019 Solo Exhibition

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Statens Museum for Kunst Migration, cultural history and identity are key themes addressed in 'Danh Vo: Take My Breath Away,' which comes to SMK – Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark, directly from the Guggenheim Museum... 30 August - 2 December 2018 Public Art Installation

Danh Vo

Porto Airport, Portugal Danh Vo's 'We the people (detail),' 2011, a replica of the Statue of Liberty's cladding can now be seen at the arrivals hall at Porto Airport in Portugal. The purpose of this... 23 July 2018 - 15 March 2019 Public Art Installation

Danh Vo

CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux Following a tradition of site-specific projects created since 2015, the museum has invited Danh Vo for a new commission. Vo has conceived a large-scale sculptural project underlying once again his ability to... 19 May - 28 October 2018 Solo Exhibition

Danh Vo: Take My Breath Away

Guggenheim Museum, New York “Take My Breath Away,” Danh Vo’s first comprehensive survey in the United States, opens at the Guggenheim on Feb. 9. It will include works from the past 15 years and new projects... 9 February - 9 May 2018 Public Art Installation

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National Gallery Singapore Danh Vo presents a series of compelling new sculptures as part of his first outdoor installation in the Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Gallery at the National Gallery Singapore. Vo’s work often... 4 November 2016 - 31 August 2017 Group Exhibition

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The Venice Biennale 2015 Danh Vo will represent Denmark at the 2015 Venice Biennale. 9 May - 22 November 2015 Group Exhibition

Danh Vo

Punta della Dogana Danh Vo has been invited to collaborate with Palazzo Grassi and Caroline Bourgeois, Punta della Dogana and the Pinault Collection not only as an artist but also as a curator, working with... 12 April 2015 - 10 January 2016

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Baby Grow The original painting that is reproduced on these baby onesies depicts the execution of missionaries trained by the Société des Missions Etrangères de Paris, an institution that continues to educate aspiring evangelicals... Buy now

After the Party

A Manifesto for Queer of Color Life After the Party tells the stories of minoritarian artists who mobilize performance to produce freedom and sustain life in the face of subordination, exploitation, and annihilation. Through the exemplary work of Nina... Buy now

Animality

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Animality, exhibited at Marian Goodman Gallery, London in 2016. The very earliest cave paintings reveal that humans have cohabitated with animals for millennia. Yet the... Buy now

Selected Press

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Danh Vo brings back to life trees struck by lightning

Art Basel, February 28, 2023 Press

INTERTWINED HISTORIES: DANH VO

ArtAsiaPacific, October 25, 2021 Press

Danh Vo Goes in Search of History

Elephant, February 19, 2021 Press

Danh Vo Interview: Art Should Estrange

Louisiana Channel, June 2020 Press

The Artist Questioning Authorship

The New Yorker, January 29, 2018 Press

Exorcisms of the Self

Frieze, April 24, 2015 Press

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Kaleidoscope, March 26, 2013 Press

Awash in a Cultural Deluge

The New York Times, March 15, 2013

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