Artist Biography:
Manny Trinh (born 1974 in Saigon City, Vietnam) immigrated to Canada when he was 11 years old. He is a painter and visual artist.
Trinh’s practice explores the nuances of contradiction. His vivid impressions of the human landscape of his homeland — dense yet sprawling, chaotic with an underlying order, decaying but full of life and growth — have become major influences on his work.
From engaging with a bright, complementary, almost fauvist or pop colour palette to experiments in greyscale and monochrome, the artist focuses on the entanglement of fantasy and reality; encapsulating a recognizable human core within surreal technology and splintered mechanical landscapes. The various techniques Trinh employs in wet and dry brushwork found in his acrylic, watercolour and gouache paintings are studies probing the surface and texture of our dichotomous environments, acknowledging generations of cultural evolution. His work can be found at Wall Space Gallery. Manny Trinh lives and works in Toronto, Canada.
Find more of his work online at mannytrinh.bigcartel.com.
Curator Biography:
Sally Frater is the daughter of immigrants from the Caribbean. Her curatorial interests touch on decolonial praxis, place, Back and Caribbean diasporas, art of the everyday, and eco-criticism. She has curated exhibitions for the Art Gallery of Ontario, The McColl Center for Art and Innovation, Glassell School of Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery at the University of Toronto, Project Row Houses, and the Art Gallery of Guelph. Frater has also completed fellowships and residencies with Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, UT Dallas Centraltrak, Southern Methodist University, Project Row Houses and Art21. Frater is a member of the Association of Art Museum Curators and is an alumna of Independent Curators International.
