HOAN DOAN

Artist Biography

Hoan Doan is a multidisciplinary artist with more than fifteen years of practice across performance art, body movement, painting, installation, poetry, and vocal performance.

She graduated with a degree in Interior Design, but her passion for body movement and painting led her away from the field of design and into contemporary art practice. Her background in spatial thinking, form, and structure continues to shape the way she constructs visual imagery, movement, and installation in her work.

Her selected projects include:

• The Soundless Scream (2026)
• Xổm (2023)
• The Slavery (2023)
• The Basket (2022)
• Publication of the poetry collection I Heal Myself Through Words (2021)
• Four Seasons (2014)
• Metamorphosis (2013)
• Ghosts in Daylight (2013)
• Vietnam's Got Talent – Semi-finalist (2012)

Throughout her artistic journey, Hoan Doan has continuously expanded the expressive possibilities of the human body, treating it both as a creative medium and as a space where different artistic languages intersect and transform one another.

Her current research focuses on the simultaneous coexistence of multiple artistic languages within a single work, seeking to develop an artistic methodology centered on a single body as the generator and orchestrator of the entire creative process.

Artist Statement

I am a performance artist. Body movement is the primary language through which I construct conceptual imagery. I do not create choreography to demonstrate technical skill; instead, I use my body as a living sculptural medium to reflect on history, power, and the human condition.

After more than fifteen years of working across performance art, painting, installation, poetry, and vocal performance, I have entered a new phase of artistic research: exploring the simultaneous presence of all these artistic languages within a single work, activated by one living body.

In this practice, art is no longer the presentation of separate disciplines but becomes a unified living organism—breathing, evolving, and transforming before the audience. The body is no longer merely a performer; it becomes the central system through which multiple artistic languages operate simultaneously.

My intention is not to demonstrate proficiency in multiple art forms. Rather, I seek to explore the limits of human experience, where emotion, consciousness, knowledge, and the unconscious coexist within a single moment of presence, allowing one body to become a complete artistic universe.

Many multidisciplinary artists create their work through collaboration with practitioners from different disciplines. My practice follows a different path: a single body simultaneously activates multiple artistic languages in the same moment. I consider this an ongoing artistic inquiry and long-term practice, through which I hope to contribute a new creative methodology to contemporary art.