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Christian Việt Đinh

New Orleans, Louisiana

In the Mud, What is More Beautiful Than a Lotus? Is a sculpture composed of two white porcelain hands with long square shape nails on a black silk pillow with gold medallions.

In the Mud, What is More Beautiful Than a Lotus?

2023

Chén is a sculpture on a red stepped plinth, of an oversize replication of plastic “Longevity” chinese-style bowls, with a band of red decoration, and rim of yellow and black interlocking decoration. In the bowl are labeled bags of various rice, and behind on a red wall is a yellow floral textile banner with 3 stripes of red, and the text on the wall reads “Tram Nam Song Tho Dinh Viet Anh Dai”.

Chén

2022

Boy With Flute Vase is a porcelain sculpture in the shape of a nail polish bottle with decoration in the style of Chinese blue and white pottery, featuring a traditional illustration of a boy with a flute in red, and symmetrical decorations in blue and white. .

Boy With Flute Vase

2022

Yellow is a sculptural installation of 9 rows of 12 porcelain replicas of nail polish bottles in a grid, each bottle painted with different shades of yellow, creating a gradient from deep orange-yellow, to palest yellow.

Yellow

2021

Artworks shown are selected from works submitted by the artist in their grant or residency application. All works are copyright of the artist or artist’s estate.

About Christian Việt Đinh

Christian Việt Đinh stands in front of a blue X, wearing a faded clay-splattered blue apron and floral shirt. He is a Vietnamese-American man with dark shoulder length hair, and a mustache.
Photo by Selina McKane

Born in 1992, Christian Việt Đinh is a Vietnamese-American artist from St. Petersburg, Florida. He received his BA in 2016 from the University of West Florida in Pensacola. Relocating to New Orleans in 2018, Đinh received his MFA at Tulane University. Đinh’s work has been featured in publications such as The New York Times, Ceramic Monthly, The Times Picayune, and Adore Magazine. Đinh’s ceramic and sculptural work has been in numerous exhibitions, including Focus Spotlight: Nail Salon at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, LA; Knowing Who We Are: The Contemporary Dialogue at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art; Trường Ca Mươi Ngàn Năm at the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art in Biloxi, MS; and Legacy Traces: Recent Additions to the Museum Collection at the Newcomb Art Museum in New Orleans, LA. In 2024, Đinh participated in the New Orleans triennial, Prospect.6.

Program Participation

Joan Mitchell Center Residency, 2025

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“ The overarching theme of my work is the act of remembrance—of objects, places, practices, traditions, and people, within Vietnamese-American culture. With this body of work, I aim to contribute to a working archive of what defines the Vietnamese-American aesthetic.”