KV Duong

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KV Duong is an ethnically Chinese artist with a transnational background—born in Vietnam, raised in Canada, and now living as a queer person in Britain. He examines the complexities of Vietnamese queer identity, migration, and cultural assimilation through personal and familial history. During his MA studies at the Royal College, he has created works on latex, highlighting its historical connection to French colonial rubber plantations in Vietnam, while simultaneously embracing its sensuality and symbolic association with the queer experience. The recurring motif of a door or portal signifies access and the limitations imposed by societal constructs, particularly those associated with colonial and LGBTQ+ history.
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B.1980 in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam. Lives and works in London.

 

Education

2024 MA in Painting, Royal College of Art, London UK (Vice Chancellor's Achievement Scholarship)
2005 Master of Applied Science and Engineering, University of Toronto
2003 Bachelor of Applied Science and Engineering, University of Toronto (WS Wilson Medal for 1st in graduating class)

 

Upcoming Exhibitions
2024 Social Tapestry, Chilli Art Projects, London UK (PV: 12th July, 6-9pm)
2024 Layered and Interwoven: Exploring Post-Colonial Identity, University of Greenwich/ Stephen Lawrence Gallery, London UK (PV: 16th July, 6-8pm)
2024 Buffer 3, Guts Gallery, London UK (August)
2024 Harlesden High Street (Solo Exhibition), London UK (September)
2024 Antigone Revisted, Marcelle Joseph x Hypha Studios, Hypha Studios HQ, London UK (September)
2024 ART021, with Ames Yavuz, Shanghai China (November)

Solo Exhibitions
2022 Too Foreign for Home, Too Foreign for Here, Migration Museum, London UK
2019 Letter to my younger self, RB12, London UK
2018 Identity, Streatham Space Project, London UK 


Selected Group Exhibitions

2024 MA in Painting - Degree Show, Royal College of Art, London UK
2024 Terrence Higgins Trust, Christie’s Auction House, London UK
2024 The Future of Belonging (with Speiro Projects), Noho Showroom, London UK
2024 Out of Reach: The Enigma of Consciousness, Art in the docks Gallery, London UK
2024 Discoveries, Fiumano Clase, London UK
2024 Finding Place, The Ancient Priors, Crawley UK
2024 Momentum, Fitzrovia Gallery, London UK
2023 ALTAR-NATIVE, Ugly Duck (Courage Yard),  London UK
2023 The Brink, Ugly Duck (Tanner St),  London UK
2023  My Mother is Beautiful, part of Mother Art Prize performance evening, collaboration with Xie Rong (Echo Morgan) & An-Ting, Zabludowicz Collection, London UK
2023 Eleven Twenty Three, St Bartholomew The Great, London UK
2023 Belonging, 183 Art Gallery, Toronto Canada
2023 Lucky Number 8, Bomb Factory (Marylebone), London UK
2022 Landscapes Within, Darl-e and the Bear Gallery, Woodstock UK
2022 The Lost and the Remained, Koppel Project Hive (curated by an.otherasian), London UK
2022 Nuit Blanche, 401 Richmond West, Toronto Canada
2022 More Than Meets The Eye, D-Contemporary, London UK
2022 Field of Action with Draw to Perform, Canning Gallery, London UK
2022 Figure and Ground, Bermondsey Project Space, London UK
2022 Queer Photography - a non definitive survey, The Ledward Centre x SEAS, Brighton UK
2021 Stockholm Supermarket Independent Art Fair, Stockholm Sweden
2021 Re:store Re:new Re:imagine - finding balance through art, Willesden Gallery (Brent Council), London UK
2021 Absent Authors, APT Gallery (Curated by Robert Fitzmaurice), London UK
2021 The Other Art Fair, presented by Saatchi Art, Kings Cross, London UK
2021 The Top 100, The Department Store (Curated by The Auction Collective), London UK
2021 Lighting it Blue for the NHS. Public art installation with W1Curates, #LIGHTITBLUE, NHS, 161-167 Oxford Street, London UK
2020 Vienna Calling II - All You Need Is Love, Galerie Art Pool, Vienna Austria
2019 Focus LDN: Cultural Diaries, Old Brompton Gallery, London UK
2019 Article 25’s 10x10 Charity Auction, RIBA, London UK
2019 Elevate - ArtCan Group Exhibition, Duff and Phelps at the Shard, London UK
2019 Queer Frontiers. Live body painting performance, 8-10 Brewer St, London UK
2018 Summer Exhibition, Concept Space, London UK
2018 Opening Line, Crossways Gallery, Cambridge UK
2017 Tribe 17, OXO Bargehouse, London UK
2016 Tribe 16, Ugly Duck, London UK


Collections
London School of Economics, London UK
Capital Group, London UK
Ashurst Collection, London UK