Salina
Melbourne, Ho Chi Minh.

I investigate impermanence through intimate, close-up landscapes. These landscapes are soft and ambiguous, blending places I’ve lived into spaces that feel both known and strange. There are no people, only traces: fine stitches from my textile practice, layered strokes, and painted light moving across the surface. Each work develops gradually as I process lived experience. Belonging, for me, is learning to live with who I am as I change. My work acts as a quiet memoir of loss, a dialogue with the versions of myself I’ve left behind. Through these ambiguous landscapes, I document the small things I find comfort in: moments of light, texture, and quiet refuge. Through this process, I learn to rest in impermanence and make peace with who I am becoming.

CV

Native proficiency in Vietnamese
Professional proficiency in English.

Education:

• Master in Teaching (Early Childhood), Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia, 2025 – Present
• BA (Hons) Textile Design, Chelsea College of Arts, London, United Kingdom, 2019- 2022
• (Certificate in Higher Education) International Preparation for Fashion, London College of Fashion, London, United Kingdom, 2018-2019

Award:

• UOB Painting of the Year 2023, Vietnam, Gold in Emerging Artist Cagetory

Group Exhibition:

• 2023, UOB Painting of the Year, Vietnam National Fine Arts Museum, Hanoi, Vietnam
• 2025, Face to Face Revisited, Deakin University Art Gallery, Burwood, Melbourne, Australia.
• 2025, Tilted Presence, ACENTRICSPACE, Zhujiajiao, Shanghai, China.

Residency:

• 2025, ACENTRICSPACE, Zhujiajiao, Shanghai, China