Xuân-Hạ drifts between worlds ~ an artist, an organizer, a cultivator of connections. Born in Da Nang and rooted in Thang Binh (Quang Nam), her childhood unfolded between sea and field, among cows and chickens, in summers of tears and winters of storms. (typical Central Vietnam)

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Without formal training, she entered art through curiosity, and stayed through resistance. Her path is one of self-teaching and self-unlearning, a continuous trying to make the raw beat of her inner nature meet the constructed system of the art world. In a world always on the move, she wonders how do we keep growing while staying rooted, how do we move without losing ground?​ For her, growth is not only in what can be seen, the branches, leaves, and fruit that reach toward light but also in what remains unseen: the roots underground, quiet, slow, intertwined with other lives. Her practice belongs to that hidden layer: a subterranean ecosystem of micro-stories of nature, history, humans, and more-than-human beings that quietly sustain everything above.

 

Besides working as an artist, Xuân-Hạ also plays an active role in building and expanding the local art community in Vietnam. She is the co-founder of Chaosdowntown Cháo (HCMC, 2015-2019) and more recently, the founder and artistic director of A Sông Collective (Da Nang, 2019-present). She has been awarded for the International Future Leaders Program 2022-23 by The Australia Council for the Arts, and recently received the Fellows Award: Cultural & Artistic Responses to the Environmental Crisis 2024 (CAREC) by the Prince Claus Fund.  

 

Her work has been presented at notable international film festivals and exhibitions, including the Asian Avant-Garde Film Festival 2025 (M+ Museum, Hong Kong), Painting with Light Film Festival 2022 (National Gallery Singapore) as well as ESOK Jakarta Biennale 2021 (Museum of National Awakening, Indonesia) and across various institutions and art spaces in Vietnam, Germany, Thailand, Malaysia and Japan.