KWINNIE LÊ
2023 resMA Arts & Performance Research Studies, University of Amsterdam, NL
thesis: resuturing narratives: classification through tattoos and its reclamation as a practice of decolonisation.
2014 – 2018 BA (Honours) Fine Arts, Willem de Kooning Academy, NL.
2017 Exchange Fine Arts Chelsea College of Art London, UK.
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2025 Textile Biënnale: Interwoven Futures, Museum Rijswijk, NL.
2025 The day it rains Jellyfish, group show, Text My Sister X Harvesting Light Complex Vantaa, FI.
2025 Offerings to the unknown, performance talk, Queer museum Hanoi, VN.
2025 colored qollective syposium, performance talk, BAK Utrecht, NL.
2025 Salon of Queer Indoctrinations, screening, Worm Rotterdam, NL.
2024 The land of the tattooed: Ungodly Beasts, Solo Show, curated by Inez Piso, Hotel Maria Kapel Hoorn, NL.
2024 Whispers from the Past, performance, curated by Katinka Enkhuizen, Holland Festival Amsterdam, NL.
2024, Take a bite of us, digest who we are, group show, Mino Antwerpen, BE.
2024 Text-ure, group show, CICA Museum Gimpo, KR.
2024 MK calling, group show, MK Gallery Milton Keynes, UK.
2024 carried through the wind from the homeland, solo show, curated by Roy Voragen, Jendela, Maastricht NL.
2023 Doesjenel Prize, group, Museum de Lakenhal Leiden, NL.
2023 Into View: Bernice Bing, group, Asian Art Museum San Francisco, USA
2023 The birth of suntipede, icw Nash Caldera, W139 Amsterdam, NL.
2023 Twee-Duizend-Meter-Maaltijd, public installation, Zomer Op Zuid Festival Rotterdam, NL.
2022 Wild summer of art, Group show, Brutus Rotterdam, NL.
2022 Foraging for [...], group show, curation by Sara-Lot van Uum, Nieuw Dakota Amsterdam, NL
2022 The Echo to Every Footstep, group show, Huidenclub Rotterdam, NL.
2021 Trans*formation Tutorials, performance, curation by Kübra Uzun & Simon(e) van Saarloos, Other Futures
Festival at Brakke Grond Amsterdam, NL
2021 good mourning, solo vitrine, curation by Rosa Cherim, Small museum Paradiso Amsterdam, NL
2021 NNN Fair, performance, curation by Non Native Native, Worm Rotterdam, NL.
2021 Through The Window, online exhibition, TTW by Kübra Uzun, Simon(e) van Saarloos
& Omer Tevfik Erten;TR/NL.
2021 TENT Online Cinema, screening "a father's passport", TENT Rotterdam, NL.
2021 Kunstsalon IJL, Group Show, Galerie Noord Groningen, NL.
2020 Print & Play X Boijmans Hillevliet, printable group exhibition, Curated by Marieke van den Belt
& Thieu Custers, Boijmans [online] Rotterdam, NL.
2020 En NU, performance, Pictura dordrecht, NL.
2020 #softmarket, group show, Frank Taal Gallery, Rotterdam NL.
2020 Mirrors and Reflections, group show, Loosen Art Gallery Millepiani Rome, IT.
2020 WKNDX, performance, Witte Rook Breda, NL.
2020 Ways of Watching Together, performance, curated by Neverland Cinema, ShowRoom MaMa Rotterdam, NL.
2019 The New Current, group show, Cruise Terminal Rotterdam, NL.
Mondriaan Project, 2025.
Mondriaan Start, 2024.
CBK Praktijkbijdrage, 2024.
Amarte Development, 2023
Pictoright Steunfonds, 2022
Stichting Stokroos, 2022
Makersloket, Stichting Droom & Daad, 2021
Research & Development (O&O) CBK Rotterdam, 2021.
2025 Art as a table: feeding social change through social practice, group interview with Mino Art Lab, written by Margot De Grave Loyson, Trigger Magazine FOMU Atwerp, BE.
2024 Luuk tipt Kunst - The land of the tattooed: Ungodly Beasts, door Luuk Heezen.
2023 Artist talk, Lakenhal Laat, Museum de Lakenhal Leiden, NL.
2023 Galaxy Gazette #2, poem "the coconut ghost", the writer's guide to the galaxy Rotterdam, NL.
2023 Cookbook, article by Laura van den bergh, Metropolis M Utrecht, NL.
2023 The world according to technoshamanism, article feature, written by Brigitte van der Sande, Metropolis M Utrecht, NL
2023 Whispers from the past: tattooing histories & the transformative power of knowledge, essay, Apria Journal Arnhem, NL.
2022 Grote Nederlandse Kunstkalender, NL
2021 kinderworkshops in Boijmans Hillevliet, article, Boijmans Rotterdam, NL.
2021 Podcast small museum#4, artist interview, Paradiso Amsterdam, NL.
2021 Queer & Feminist Poetry Anthology, publication poetry, Unwanted Words Rotterdam, NL
2020 Pictura Blad 02/2020, cover, Pictura Dordrecht, NL.
2020 Sewing Skins, artist interview [click] [click] ,Witte Rook Breda, NL.
2019 Poetica Volume II, poem “inhabiting the space of the other”, Bymepoetry Melbourne, AU.
2018 The death of death: an artistic research on memorial bots [click]. Museum Tot Zover (thesis bank), Amsterdam, NL.
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Hương Quỳnh 'Kwinnie' Lê Vu
Rotterdam, NL.
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2023- Now External Assessor Graduation Exams, Willem de Kooning Academy, NL.
2025 Steering Committee MINO lab, NL.
2022 Worlds between Words, workshop, Showroom Mama Rotterdam, NL
2021 Workshops for children, development and execution for Jeugdvakantiepaspoort, Boijmans Hillevliet Rotterdam, NL
2016 - 2019 Editor/Programmer , Bymepoetry Melbourne, AU.
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2025 Airhue Hue, VN.
2024 Mino Lab, Mino Art Lab Antwerp, BE.
2024 Hotel Maria Kapel Hoorn, NL.
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18 January Performance talk, Lo Lo Library Ho Chi Minh City, VN.
5 March - 7 June Lend Me Your Ears, Group show, TENT Rotterdam, NL.
27 - 29 March Prospects & Concepts, Art Rotterdam
Body Labyrinth, Live Film Art Festival Amsterdam, NL.
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Doesjenel Prize, 2023.
Threshold Awards, 2018. [Nomination]
Excel Yourself Scholarship, 2018. [Nomination]
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