Danh Vo

Danh Vo is a cele­brated concep­tual artist known for explor­ing iden­tity, history, and cultural inher­i­tance through personal and polit­i­cal narra­tives. Born in Vietnam in 1975 and raised in Denmark, Vo studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and Städelschule in Frank­furt. His work often weaves together found objects, archival mate­ri­als, and subtle inter­ven­tions to chal­lenge domi­nant historical narratives.

Vo has presented solo exhi­bi­tions at leading insti­tu­tions world­wide, includ­ing La Bourse de Commerce in Paris (2023), Seces­sion in Vienna (2021), and the Solomon R. Guggen­heim Museum in New York (2018). In 2015, he repre­sented Denmark at the Venice Bien­nale, and he is a recip­i­ent of the Hugo Boss Prize, one of contem­po­rary art’s most prestigious awards.

Danh Vo’s collab­o­ra­tion with Kvadrat exem­pli­fies his nuanced engage­ment with mate­r­ial culture, partic­u­larly through his cura­to­r­ial redis­cov­ery of Nanna Ditzel’s textile design Sisu for his 2018 retro­spec­tive at Denmark’s National Gallery (SMK).