Bao-Han Nguyen-Vo

𝗕𝗮𝗼-𝗛𝗮𝗻 𝗡𝗴𝘂𝘆𝗲𝗻-𝗩𝗼 is a cultural manager and visual artist from Nha Trang (Vietnam). She holds a BA in Arts and Media Studies with honors from Fulbright University Vietnam and is currently pursuing an MA in Art and Social Action at NCAD Dublin as a GOI-IES scholar since 2024.

Han’s practice combines visual ethnography and archival research, using documentary photography, experimental film, and community-centered curation to reimagine fragmented histories through vernacular narratives. She co-produced ‘Lèm dì dị Open Studios’, Nha Trang, Vietnam, 2023-2024; ‘As Time Gone By’, Da Nang Fine Arts Museum, Da Nang, Vietnam, 2024. Han’s short films trace urban memory of modern Vietnam, from vanishing river systems to playgrounds eclipsed by gentrification. Her graduation project, ‘As Water Erodes’ (2024) wove personal archives and oral histories to interrogate historical amnesia along the coastal hinterlands of central Vietnam.

Han’s works have been presented in ‘Roots and Worlds’, HCMC/Hanoi, Vietnam, 2024; ‘Photocamp with Lam Duc Hien’, Hue, Vietnam, 2022; ‘toi CAB anmai residency’, Hoi An, Vietnam, 2021. Her collaborative work includes Hagait Ni, a Cham music heritage initiative, and Mai-Marai, a touring performance on Cham preservation.

Since relocating to Ireland, Han’s current research is to assert her socially engaged practices from an auto-anthropological positionality, addressing identity dissonance, precarious work, and labor immigration among Vietnamese immigrant workers at nail salons.