Le Quoc Thanh (b.1975, Vietnam) is a Ho Chi Minh City-based artist whose practice works with painting and assemblage. Despite dropping out of Ho Chi Minh City University of Fine Art a year after he was enrolled, Thanh continued his art practice through means of self-studying, doing freelance jobs, and honing his primary mediums. He pushes the boundaries of both mediums by combining them and adding found objects and text into his paintings.
Thanh’s first solo exhibition was in Da Lat in 2001. Other solo exhibitions include two solo exhibitions in S. O. C Saigon in 2013, a solo exhibition in Saigon Domain in 2014. In 2018, he has also participated in a residency exchange with Baik Art in Seoul, South Korea as part of MoT+++’s exchange collaboration with Baik Art. There, he presented a solo exhibition. He was awarded The Best New Artist in Saigon by Australia in 2006.
His most recent solo exhibition was titled Le Quoc Thanh (2022) at CUC Gallery, Hanoi, Vietnam.


On and on, everywhere (Mọi lúc và mọi nơi)
Le Quoc Thanh
2010
Mixed media on canvas
160 x 50 cm

A paranoid victory II (Hoang tưởng chiến thắng II)
Le Quoc Thanh
2011
Mixed media on canvas
200 x 70 cm (canvas), 145 cm (iron rod)

Where we are? (Chúng ta đang ở đâu?)
Le Quoc Thanh
2011
Mixed media on canvas
118 x 118 cm

Where am I? (Tôi đâu?)
Le Quoc Thanh
2014
Mixed media on canvas
155 x 155 cm

Unpeaceful Sunday mornings #1 (Những sáng chủ nhật không bình yên #1)
Le Quoc Thanh
2010
Mixed media on canvas
135 x 105 cm

The dialectics of paranoids (Phép biện chứng của hoang tưởng)
Le Quoc Thanh
2009
Mixed media on canvas
90 x 160 cm

Teenage detritus (Ký ức dậy thì)
Le Quoc Thanh
2009
Mixed media on canvas
95 x 130 cm

Permanent obsession - the tail and the head (Ám ảnh thường trực - cái đuôi và cái đầu)
Le Quoc Thanh
2009
Mixed media on canvas
65 x 75 cm; 65 x 75 cm
Diptych

Me and We (Tôi và chúng ta)
Le Quoc Thanh
2010
Mixed media on canvas
110 x 59 cm

Landscape? #1 (Hình như là phong cảnh #1)
Le Quoc Thanh
2010
Mixed media on foamex
115 x 108 cm
Diptych

Excerpt from a Heaven I (Trích đoạn một thiên đàng I)
Le Quoc Thanh
2014
Mixed media on canvas
67 x 87 cm

Behind faith #2 (Phía sau niềm tin #2)
Le Quoc Thanh
2011
Mixed media on canvas
120 x 120 cm

Also a dance (Cũng là điệu múa)
Le Quoc Thanh
2012
Mixed media on canvas
150 x 230 cm, 150 x 150 cm
Diptych

A paranoid victory I (Hoang tưởng chiến thắng I)
Le Quoc Thanh
2009
Mixed media on canvas
65 x 137 cm

A new man (con người mới)
Le Quoc Thanh
2016
Mixed media on canvas
150 x 120 cm
Le Quoc Thanh – Excerpt From A Heaven: How To Fly (in collaboration with CUC Gallery)
13 May - 3 June 2023
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