KV Duong
Born in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, 1980
education
2024 | MA in Painting, Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom
Vice Chancellor’s Achievement Scholarship
2005 | Master of Applied Science (Hons), Civil Engineering, University of Toronto
2003 | Bachelor of Applied Science (Hons), Civil Engineering, University of Toronto
solo exhibitions
2025 | Portals, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery (Salon booth), Palm Beach, USA (forthcoming)
2024 | Between This Body and the World, Harlesden High Street, London, United Kingdom
2023 | Routes, Streatham Space Project, London, United Kingdom
2022 | Too Foreign for Home, Too Foreign for Here, Migration Museum, London, United Kingdom
2019 | Letter to My Younger Self, RB12, London, United Kingdom
2018 | Identity, Streatham Space Project, London, United Kingdom
group exhibitions (selected)
2025 | An Uncommon Thread, Hauser & Wirth, Somerset, United Kingdom (forthcoming)
2024 | Minor Attractions, Harlesden High Street, Mandrake Hotel, London, United Kingdom
2024 | Layered and Interwoven, University of Greenwich (Stephen Lawrence Gallery), London, United Kingdom
2024 | Buffer 3, Guts Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2024 | Terrence Higgins Trust, Christie’s Auction House, London, United Kingdom
2024 | The Future of Belonging, NOHO Showroom with Speiro Projects, London, United Kingdom
2024 | Discoveries, Fiumano Clase, London, United Kingdom (forthcoming February)
2023 | Homotopic, Cromwell Place (with Culture&), London, United Kingdom
2023 | Belonging, 183 Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2022 | Nuit Blanche, 401 Richmond West, Toronto, Canada
2022 | Field of Action with Draw to Perform, Canning Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2022 | Figure and Ground, Bermondsey Project Space, London, United Kingdom
2022 | Queer Photography: A Non-Definitive Survey, The Ledward Centre x SEAS, Brighton, United Kingdom
2021 | Stockholm Supermarket Independent Art Fair, Stockholm, Sweden
2021 | Re:store Re:new Re:imagine - Finding Balance Through Art, Willesden Gallery (Brent Council), London, United Kingdom
2021 | Absent Authors, APT Gallery (Curated by Robert Fitzmaurice), London, United Kingdom
2021 | The Top 100, The Department Store (Curated by The Auction Collective), London, United Kingdom
2021 | Lighting It Blue for the NHS, Public Art Installation with W1Curates, #LIGHTITBLUE, NHS, 161–167 Oxford Street, London, United Kingdom
2020 | Vienna Calling II – All You Need Is Love, Galerie Art Pool, Vienna, Austria
2019 | Focus LDN: Cultural Diaries, Old Brompton Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2019 | Queer Frontiers, Live Body Painting Performance, 8–10 Brewer St, London, United Kingdom
2018 | Summer Exhibition, Concept Space, London, United Kingdom
2017 | Tribe 17, OXO Bargehouse, London, United Kingdom
2016 | Tribe 16, Ugly Duck, London, United Kingdom
projects
2023 | No Place Like Home (A Vietnamese Exhibition) (Part II), Museum of the Home, London, United Kingdom
2022 | No Place Like Home (A Vietnamese Exhibition) (Part I), Canning Gallery, London, United Kingdom | with Hoa Dung Clerget
2022 | Queer Frontiers with Artiq, Soho, London, United Kingdom (Co-curator & Artist)
2022 | ArtCan Winter Exhibition, Kingsgate Project Space, London, United Kingdom (Curator & Artist)
2021 | Materials & Process, Canning Gallery, London, United Kingdom (Curator & Artist)
2020 | Transient, ArtCan Online Exhibition (Curator & Artist)
prizes, awards, open submissions
2025 | brave Projects
2024 | Vice Chancellor’s Achievement Scholarship, Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom
2024 | Arts Council of England: Develop Your Creative Practice Grant
2024 | Cass Art Prize (Prize Winner), Copeland Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2024 | Chadwell Award (Shortlist), London, United Kingdom
2024 | Tagli Mentorship (Shortlist), London, United Kingdom
2023 | London Group Open, Copeland Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2023 | Rage and Joy, Panel Discussion (Headlong & Young Vic), Young Vic Theatre, London, United Kingdom
2023 | NAE Open 2023, New Art Exchange, Nottingham, United Kingdom
2023 | Christie’s Lates: Outlanders – Dreams of a New Moon, Christie’s Auction House, London, United Kingdom
2023 | Jerwood Arts New Work Fund (with Hoa Dung Clerget)
2022 | Martin Miller’s Gin Emerging Art Prize (StART Art Fair), Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2022 | Arts Council of England National Lottery Project Grants (with Hoa Dung Clerget)
2022 | The Unhomely: Explorations of Diaspora and Cultural Displacement, Panel Discussion, Museum of the Home (with Culture&), London, United Kingdom
2022 | Royal Cambrian Academy Annual Open Exhibition, Conwy, United Kingdom
2021 | Jerwood 1:1 Fund (with Hoa Dung Clerget)
2021 | Royal Ulster Academy Annual Open Exhibition, Belfast, United Kingdom
2019 | Art Revolution Taipei International Competition, Taipei, Taiwan
2018 | Artrooms 2018, Melia White House Hotel, London, United Kingdom
collections
London School of Economics, London, United Kingdom
Capital Group, London, United Kingdom
Ashurst Collection, London, United Kingdom
articles & media
2023 | "My Own Words – No Place Like Home", Art & Market
2023 | "What an Exhibition by Artists of the Vietnamese Diaspora Says About Home and Belonging", The Conversation
2021 | "The Top 5 Art Initiatives to Experience in Lockdown", FAD Magazine
2021 | "What Are London’s Best Exhibitions on Right Now?", Londonist (4 stars from review)