Artists in residence

Born in 1990 and graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2018, My-Lan Hoang-Thuy lives and works in Paris. In 2018, she was nominated for the Prix des Amis des Beaux-Arts and won the Graduate Photography Award before exhibiting at the Salon de Montrouge. She participated in the Artpress Biennial of Young Artists at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Étienne in 2020. In 2022, the exhibition Belle Orchidée, Pissenlit Passable marked the beginning of a collaboration between the artist and the Galerie Mitterrand which continued at the end of the year with a group exhibition called Cloud Point in London, as well as a residency at the Domaine du Muy. Invited by Simon Baker, My-Lan Hoang-Thuy is also preparing her first solo institutional exhibition at the MEP in 2023.

To define her work as much as to describe herself, My-Lan Hoang-Thuy speaks a precise language and chooses exact words. Her series are moods and her works are objects. Acrylic is here the container-content of the work, painting is both the subject and the object. Her works, objects of paint and painted objects, are the result of solidified acrylic drips on which the artist prints images, motifs, and memories of a sometimes turbulent personal history. In another history, that of art, it is the late 19th century that fascinates the artist. This century which claimed to account for reality only to get rid of it, and finally saw Gauguin promise the truth in painting. While the pigment sediments and the paint dry, My-Lan Hoang-Thuy’s objects each speak a truth, that of the moment, fluid and subjective.

Gregory Hodge’s paintings oscillate between abstraction and figuration, layering personal source material with painterly gestural marks and obscured motifs of foliage, interiors and architecture. These complex, finely wrought surfaces are rendered in highly pigmented, highly translucent acrylics and gels and in mimicking everything from oil painted trompe l’oeil techniques to woven 17th century textiles, Hodge brings a reconsidered, contemporary perspective to the history and form of painting.

During his residency at the Cité international des Arts, Hodge will undertake research into the tapestries in the Gobelins Manufactory Paris and their influence on the Nabis paintings of Bonnard, Vuillard and Dennis in the musée d’Orsay.

Hodge has completed international residencies at the Cité Internationale des Arts Paris (2020), The British School at Rome (2015) and Basso Berlin (2011.) He holds a PhD from the Australian National University Canberra School of Art (2016). His work has been included in exhibitions, in the United Kingdom, Singapore, France, and Australia. His work is held in a number of permanent collections including the National Gallery of Australia, The Wollongong Art Gallery, The A.C.T Legislative Assembly, and the Australian National University.