Royal College of Art
MA in Painting 2024

20-23 June, 12-6pm daily (21 June until 7:30pm)
Painting Building - 14 Howie Street, SW11 4AY, Ground Floor

KV Duong is an ethnically Chinese artist with a transnational background—born in Vietnam, raised in Canada, and now living as a queer person in Britain. He examines the complexities of Vietnamese queer identity, migration, and cultural assimilation through personal and familial history. During his MA studies at the Royal College, he has created works on latex, highlighting its historical connection to French colonial rubber plantations in Vietnam, while simultaneously embracing its sensuality and symbolic association with the queer experience. The recurring motif of a door or portal signifies access and the limitations imposed by societal constructs, particularly those associated with colonial and LGBTQ+ history.

Recent exhibitions include ‘No Place Like Home’ (Museum of The Home, 2023) and ‘Too Foreign for Home, Too Foreign for Here’ (Migration Museum, 2022). Forthcoming exhibitions include Harlesden High Street (Solo presentation, 2024), ART021 with Ames Yavuz (Shanghai, 2024).

Supported by Vice Chancellor's Achievement Scholarship

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