Vietnamese visual artist Quỳnh Lâm works across installation, performance, and archival research to investigate how landscapes transmit memory, history, and cultural intersections. Her practice often interlaces vernacular rituals, overlooked sites, and natural or found materials, mapping how cultural resistance moves through time and territory, weaving together intimate personal narratives with broader socio-political histories. In 2024, supported by the Hamburg Ministry for Culture and Media, she transformed Westwerk—an 18th-century trading building on Hamburg’s Elbe River—into a site-responsive environment that examined sedimented memory and the entanglement of ecological and historical change. Quỳnh holds a BA in Architecture and an MFA through the Fulbright Program in the United States. She is the recipient of the 2021 American Austrian Foundation Prize for Fine Arts and the Special Jury Prize from Taiwan’s 2019 Art Future Prize—honors that reflect the growing resonance of her work and an artistic trajectory spanning Asia and Europe. Her significant fellowships and residencies include the Santa Fe Art Institute (New Mexico), Fondation Fiminco (France), Salzburg Stiftung der AAF (Austria), School of Visual Arts (New York), Ragdale Foundation (Illinois), and the Oak Spring Garden Foundation (Virginia), etc.

Quỳnh has presented performances at London Gallery Weekend (Cromwell Place), Berlin Art Week (ifa Gallery), ADAM Gathering x Taipei Arts Festival (Taipei Performing Arts Center), Archiv Massiv (Spinnerei Leipzig), MS Dauerwelle (Hochschule für Künste Bremen), Asia NOW (Monnaie de Paris), and DRAC Occitanie (Ministère de la Culture Toulouse). Her notable works have appeared in publications including Contre culture dans la Photographie Contemporaine (Textuel Éditions) and Black Mountain College Museum Arts Center Journal. Her exhibition highlights includes the Vincom Center for Contemporary Art (Hanoi), Stamford Arts Center (Singapore), Museum of Contemporary Art (Nashville), Mana Contemporary (Chicago), Palazzo Costanzi Museum (Trieste), Moggio Udinese Fondazione Friuli (Udine), Art Space Tetra (Fukuoka), Art Center Ongoing (Tokyo), Museo Civico di Casa Maccari (Gradisca), Fondation Fiminco (Romainville × Paris), Fondazione Merz (Turin), and recently, galeria DÍNAMO × ESAP – Escola Superior Artística do Porto (Porto).

During her residency at AiR 351, Quỳnh will further develop her research, engaging with the historical and cultural landscapes of Torres Vedras and the surrounding region. Through on-site research, material experimentation, and community dialogue, she aims to create new works that interlace local narratives with her ongoing exploration of historical traces embedded in geography, and ecological memory.