
The artist
Hien-Tu is a French Canadian artist of Vietnamese heritage based in Montreal, QC. She has developed her artistic practice as a self-taught abstract painter through an intuitive and reflective process. Influenced by her personal journey, she seeks to translate intuition, sensory memory, and the power of positive emotion into visual form. Working with acrylic on canvas and watercolor on paper, she selects her colors in a continuous search of emotional resonance.
2018 was a turning point in her life, awakening a profound need to express herself through the language of color and drawing her to art. A few years later, the transformative experience of motherhood deepened her artistic vision, leading her to further explore themes of beauty, inner strength, and the power of femininity through floral, oceanic, and celestial abstractions.
Hien-Tu's work has been featured in a variety of projects, including editorial wedding photography and interior design. Her work gained international exposure in 2024 with features in Suboart and New Visionary Art Magazine. Her paintings are part of private and corporate collections in Canada and abroad. 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!
