The artist
Hien-Tu is a French Canadian artist of Vietnamese heritage, based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. After spending her university years studying medicine, she rediscovered her childhood passion for the visual arts. Although she had spent her life appreciating visual beauty, she finally had the opportunity to recreate it with her brushes and paints in 2018, and her works have been in exhibitions ever since.
Through her abstract art, Hien-Tu expresses both her feelings and her thoughts, while her life experiences leave their mark on her work. Motherhood played a pivotal role in shaping both her vision and artistic identity. She creates paintings that embody the balance between strength and softness, calm and liveliness, as well as radiance and introspection.
Hien-Tu's works have been featured in a variety of projects, including editorial wedding photography, magazines, and interior design. Through her art, Hien-Tu wishes to inspire the world to celebrate the beauty of every moment of life.
Artist statement
Through painting, I seek the awakening of the senses and the beauty of the moment. Life and nature are my main sources of inspiration. Acrylic and watercolor enable me to explore both freedom and control of movement. With interplays of textures and overlays of mediums, I want to create an encounter with emotions, question the present and the unknown, and make one want to look beyond. I use colors like words to convey a particular energy in each of my works. My paintings then become poems, conversations or even confidences. As sources of self-reflection, my colors liberate the mind, leaving the observer free to experience my paintings.
Exhibitions, events, collab & Media
Solo exhibitions
2024 Day and Night, Montréal
2023 Endless Summer, Montréal
2022 Nos coeurs comme l’océan, Pop-Up Lab Coworking, Montréal
2020 Eclat, Virtual exhibition
2019 Rencontre, Centre Professionnel Saint-Michel, Montréal
2019 Ö, L’Artothèque, Montréal
Group exhibitions
2023 Le Chic, with Noir sur Blanc Atelier d’art et design, Cosentino City, Montréal
2022 Retour à la nature, Launching of Noir sur Blanc Atelier d’art et design, Toltèk, Boucherville
2020 Le Renouveau, Galerie Gallea (selection by a jury)
2020 Selection for Pop-Up Exhibition Art Cible (selection by a jury)
2019 Collectif, Ecole des Beaux Arts de Montréal, Montréal
2018 Collectif, Ecole des Beaux Arts de Montréal, Montréal
Collaborations
2022, 2023, 2024 Ambassador of Noir sur Blanc Atelier d’art et design
2020 Artwork creation for a private event - Collaboration with Prime Events
2020 Artwork creation for a wedding editorial photography - Collaboration with Chic by Nicole
Publications
2024 New Visionary Magazine Issue 11
2024 Suboart Magazine Issue 25
2022, 2023 Magazine Idéation, editions 1 to 4
2021 Magazine Weddingbells, Hello! Canada (Issue 765)
2020 Magazine Style Me Pretty: The Ultimate Wedding Color That Never Lets Us Down : Blush!
