Can You Talk to Me?, 2024

Phan Thanh Minh  

Phan Thanh was born in 1976 in Hoi An, Vietnam and Graduated from Fine Arts University in 2007.

Minh shows remarkable confidence in his compositional style and usage of colors. Working with a vivid and perhaps courageous palette, Minh's paintings are an emancipation. Raw emotions are expressed in orange or lemon yellow, sometimes applied in gentle caresses, others almost thrown onto the surface of his canvases.

“I like to make them this way. I do not like the polish and the beauty at this moment. For me, the most important thing is emotion, the real emotion of the heart"

His paintings are chapters in his diary of emotions, portraits that are both familiar and strange, with eyes that seem to appear and disappear into the swirl of color and abstraction. Minh's paintings are not focused on the shape, texture or arrangement and can be seen in a
sloppy, childish performance.

List of Exhibitions:
2006 Participated in the Youth Artist Festival Painting Exhibition in Ho Chi Minh City
2007 Graduated from the Fine Arts University in Ho Chi Minh, majoring in Graphics
2008 Participated in the Rising Stars exhibition with Chinese artist He Hong Wei at the Art Salon in
Beijing China
2011 Solo Exhibition entitled Miscellaneousness at Himiko Visual Art Gallery in Ho Chi Minh City.

Since 2019 he collaborates with the Tobian Art Gallery. His work is in private collections around the world and he has participated in collective and solo shows in his country and UK.