Thi ‘Hang’ Ha
Visual Artist | Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Born in Thai Binh Province, Vietnam, in 1982, the artist is a contemporary visual practitioner based in Ho Chi Minh City. After graduating from Hanoi University of Commerce, she moved to the United States in 2021 to pursue her artistic interests and studied painting at the Art Students League of New York from 2022 to 2024. She returned to Vietnam in 2025, where she continues to develop her independent practice.
Working primarily with acrylic and mixed media, she constructs layered compositions through the interplay of colour, texture and material. Incorporating paper, fabric, nets, sand, ink and other elements, her canvases move between gestural expression and tactile experimentation. Her work draws on personal experiences and emotional states, exploring themes of passion, nostalgia, uncertainty and hope.
Music, particularly classical compositions by Claude Debussy and Ludwig van Beethoven, provides an important point of departure for her practice. Rather than translating music into literal imagery, she responds to its rhythms, moods and tonal variations, reinterpreting them through colour, movement and spatial relationships. This dialogue between sound and image lends her paintings an intuitive yet expressive character.
She has participated in group exhibitions at the Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, New York, in 2022 and 2023. In 2026, she was shortlisted for the Vietnam Creative Awards, with three works selected for exhibition at the Ho Chi Minh City Fine Arts Museum. Her practice has also been featured in Epicure Vietnam, and her works are held in private and corporate collections internationally.
