Gallery
Not a curator by any means, but these are some past exhibitions and events I have had the chance to contribute to — in some capacity or another.
Sense of Hanoi: Tò-he-volution (2019)
Curation: Quang Nguyễn, Nam Nguyễn, Current Media RMIT Hanoi
Management: Current Media RMIT Hanoi
Art Direction: Quang Nguyễn, Nam Nguyễn, Linh Thảo
Identity: Quang Nguyễn, Nam Nguyễn, Linh Thảo
Organiser: Current Media RMIT Hanoi
Creative Partner: Đặng Văn Hậu (Tòheviệt)
Organiser: Current Media RMIT Hanoi
Sponsor: RMIT University Vietnam
Creative Partner: Đặng Văn Hậu (Tòheviệt)
Photography: Current Media RMIT Hanoi
Sense of Hanoi: Tò-he-vo-lu-tion is an event hosted and curated by RMIT University Vietnam and Current Media RMIT Hanoi, as part of the UNESCO-initiated Vietnam Festival of Media & Design: Hanoi 2019.
Inspired by the forgotten art of tò he — traditional Vietnamese figurine sticks made from glutinous rice — as a medium for exploring the ever-changing nature of creativity, the exhibition celebrated Hanoi's art scene, where tradition and contemporary practice harmoniously coexist. The event invited participants to explore craftsmanship firsthand and relive childhood memories of this traditional toy.
One of the central installation artworks in the exhibition: a hanging giant rooster (in Đông Hồ painting style), deconstructed into different layers and made using rice flour — the same material as tò he
Installation's layer construction
Guests were invited to take part in the tò he-making workshop to create their own figurine, which would then be placed in a display table (custom cut into the map of Hanoi’s Old Quarter) to form a collaborative participatory artwork throughout the course of event
A showcase of more than fifty exclusive tò he made by artist Đặng Văn Hậu
Event photography by Current Media
Echoes of Elsewhere (2025)
Curation: Quang Nguyễn, (Addie) Yan Chai Cheung, Aaron Kumar, (Lynn) Yuwei Zhu, Manav Paul, Ning Ding, Rashi Dawar, (Sadie) Yuxuan Li, Sergio Ramirez Llamas, Siddhant Prabdu Dharwadkar, (Sunny) Zening Sun, Tanisha Mehta, Tsui Tze Tracy Wong, Qian Dai
Management: Quang Nguyễn, Aaron Kumar, (Lynn) Yuwei Zhu, Manav Paul, Rashi Dawar, Qian Dai
Identity: Ning Ding, (Sadie) Yuxuan Li, (Sunny) Zening Sun, Tsui Tze Tracy Wong
Digital: (Addie) Yan Chai Cheung, Sergio Ramirez Llamas, Tanisha Mehta
Organiser and Sponsor: RMIT University
Project Supervisor: Dr. Fayen d’Evie
Support: RMIT Makerspace
Photography: Jamie Xiao-Ru Sun, Disha Sheoran
Echoes of Elsewhere was a public exhibition co-curated by students in the Master of Communication Design program at RMIT University, presented at the RMIT Media Portal Hall in October 2025. The exhibition explored how migration, belonging, and cultural memory shape Melbourne's creative landscape, positioning design as both archive and an act of exchange where stories of movement and making intersect.
The project emerged from an international group of students, many of whom now call Melbourne home. Their shared experience of living between cultures informed the exhibition's approach: design not as a fixed outcome, but as a process of adaptation and care. Echoes of Elsewhere invited visitors to consider how personal histories, domestic rituals, and urban encounters all contribute to a collective design language unique to Naarm.
Quang Nguyễn
Communication Designer
is a Vietnamese design practitioner/illustrator currently based in Naarm (Melbourne), and an ongoing Master’s student of Communication Design at RMIT University.
Previously held a Bachelor of Communication (Advertising) degree and throughout years of accumulated independent design learning and practice, Quang is currently focused on brand illustration, brand identity, and communication design, with some of past high-profile clients including Sovico Group, RMIT, and UNESCO. He also frequently collaborates with Hands Collective, an award-winning brand consultancy based in Hanoi, and produces works recognised and featured by Behance, Dieline, and Pentawards.
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Hanoi, Vietnam
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Naarm, Australia
As a Vietnamese currently residing and working on the stolen lands in the Kulin Nation, I acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Bunurong peoples as the Traditional Owners, and recognise their deep and ongoing connection to these lands and waters. I pay my respects to their Elders past, present, and emerging. Sovereignty has never been ceded. It always was and always will be, Aboriginal land.