Lena Bui
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Lêna Bùi
Lêna Bùi (born 1985) is a Vietnamese visual artist based in Saigon[1]. Her work explores relationships between people and the natural environment, including urban development and spiritual beliefs.[2][3]
Early life and education
Bùi was born in Đà Nẵng, Vietnam. She received a Bachelor of Arts in East Asian Studies from Wesleyan University in the United States.[4]
Work
Bùi’s work moves back and forth between various cultures and values, sometimes comparing and contrasting to better understand the socio-political make-up of the society.[1]
Her film Flat Sunlight was discussed alongside Nguyễn Thị Thanh Mai’s Day by Day in a 2022 audiovisual art review by Cristina Nualart in the Journal of Vietnamese Studies.[5]
Kindred (2021) combines landscape imagery with narration in different languages, giving voices to natural entities affected by human development. The work draws on beliefs about spirits inhabiting trees and was presented at the 2022 Jeju Biennale. Her ongoing series Circulations, begun in 2021, consists of layered paintings on silk; its first ten works were commissioned for Posthuman Ensemble, part of ACC Focus 2021 at the Asia Culture Center in Gwangju, South Korea.[6]
During a 2023 residency at Delfina Foundation in London, Bùi developed Root People and the Circle Line. Presented that November as part of Cyphering, Vibrating, Emanating, the performance combined video, spoken reflections, and diagrams to explore movement, belonging, and rootedness.[7]
Her film dream(machine, human) (2025) combines everyday footage with computer-generated and AI-generated imagery depicting an imagined underground refuge from an overheated Earth. Writing in NO NIIN, Hung Duong interpreted its fragmented narrative and shifts between documentary imagery and fantasy as a way of exploring environmental and technological anxiety.[8]
Selected exhibitions
Bùi’s work has appeared in Foreign Bodies at Wellcome Collection in London in 2013 and Residual: Disrupted Choreographies at Carré d’Art in Nîmes, France, in 2014. She also participated in the 2022 Jeju Biennale, the 2024 Bangkok Art Biennale, and the 15th Shanghai Biennale in 2025.[1]
Residencies
Bùi was an artist in residence at Delfina Foundation in autumn 2023[9] and at NTU CCA in 2020.[10]
Publications
Bùi contributed to These Birds of Temptation (2021), edited by Anna-Sophie Springer and Etienne Turpin and co-published by K. Verlag and Haus der Kulturen der Welt.[11]
External links
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "about". lêna bùi. Retrieved 2026-10-24.
- ↑ "Lena Bui". Nha San Collective.
- ↑ "Lêna Bùi". KADIST.
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedWebsite-2 - ↑ Nualart, Cristina (2022). "Audiovisual Art Review: Nắng Bằng Phẳng [Flat Sunlight] and Day by Day". Journal of Vietnamese Studies. 17 (2–3): 158–165.
- ↑ Bailey, Stephanie (15 March 2024). "Studio Visit: Lêna Bùi". Delfina Foundation.
- ↑ "Cyphering, Vibrating, Emanating". Delfina Foundation. Retrieved 2026-10-24.
- ↑ Duong, Hung (September 2026). "Trespassing in Plain Sight: Ambiguity as a Generative Force". NO NIIN.
- ↑ "Lêna Bùi". Delfina Foundation. Retrieved 2026-10-24.
- ↑ "Lêna". archive.ntu.ccasingapore.org. Retrieved 2026-10-24.
- ↑ "These Birds of Temptation". K. Verlag. 16 December 2021.
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