Mai Ta Vietnam, b. 1997

Mai Ta (b. 1997, Vietnam) works primarily in gouache, which allows her to work small in size with lightness and intricacies but also enables her to emphasize bold colors in the background. Ta's works have always been a special place to convey her most vulnerable emotions reinterpreted as memories. She creates intimate paintings that translate experiences of small, personal moments that trigger a change.

Ta graduated from the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan with a Bachelors in Fine Art and Illustration. Her work has been featured in Elephant Magazine, Colossal Magazine, Booooooom Magazine, Heritage In-flight Magazine, The Lab-Saigon, and the Nashville Review. Mai Ta has been a part of national and international exhibitions such as Two Sides of One Coin, Taikang Art Museum, Beijing, China, 2024; The Midnight Hour, The Hole, New York, 2023; Blue Girl, Pablo’s Birthday, New York, 2023; and Wonder Women, Jefferey Deitch, curated by Kathy Huang, New York, 2022. In 2020, Ta was awarded the Nancy Lee Rhodes Roberts Scholarship Award by the Society of Illustrators in New York. She currently lives and works in Saigon, Vietnam