Mai Ta Vietnam, b. 1997

Biography

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

Works
  • Mai Ta, futurist, 2023
    futurist, 2023
  • Mai Ta, omens of a bad faith , 2023
    omens of a bad faith , 2023
  • Mai Ta, music for forgetting, 2023
    music for forgetting, 2023
  • Mai Ta, bedroom, 2023
    bedroom, 2023
  • Mai Ta, the vessel, 2022
    the vessel, 2022
  • Mai Ta, like love itself, 2021
    like love itself, 2021
  • Mai Ta, and honest, 2021
    and honest, 2021
  • Mai Ta, untitled, 2021
    untitled, 2021
  • Mai Ta, the tower, 2021
    the tower, 2021
  • Mai Ta, the moon, 2021
    the moon, 2021
  • Mai Ta, xxi the world, 2021
    xxi the world, 2021
  • Mai Ta, ten of swords, 2021
    ten of swords, 2021