Galerie Quynh

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Galerie Quynh is a commercial art gallery of contemporary art located in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Galerie Quynh is considered to be Ho Chi Minh City's "main commercial space" [1] and a "leading contemporary commercial venue." [2] Founded by Quynh Pham and Robert Cianchi in 2000 as an online resource of Vietnamese art, the gallery has since evolved into a physical site that "presents some of Vietnam's most inspiring and rigorous practitioners." [2] The gallery mounts a new exhibition that varies from solo retrospectives to themed group shows every one or two months. In December of 2009, the gallery had an exhibition of works by Bruce Yonemoto, a Los-Angeles based Japanese-American artist, that further solidified its position in the international art world. [3]

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References

  1. "Vietnam,"ArtAsiaPacific, Almanac 2010 05 (2010):196.
  2. 1 2 Iola Lenzi, "Outsider Connections: Saigon Emerges as a Dynamic New Centre of Contemporary Art,"C-Arts:Asian Contemporary Art and Culture, 07 (2009):101.
  3. "A Multimedia Man," TimeOut Magazine, 12 December 2009, 14.