Anne is a finance executive based in Hanoi who began collecting Vietnamese contemporary art in 2017 as a way to better understand herself, Vietnam and the world around her. In 2024, she took a sabbatical to pursue an MA in Asian Art Histories at LASALLE College of the Arts in Singapore.
Her academic interests span Asian pre-modern art and Vietnamese contemporary art, with her thesis focusing on Read more.... Pham Nguyen Anh Thu (Anne) (graduated in 2025)
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Anne is a finance executive based in Hanoi who began collecting Vietnamese contemporary art in 2017 as a way to better understand herself, Vietnam and the world around her. In 2024, she took a sabbatical to pursue an MA in Asian Art Histories at LASALLE College of the Arts in Singapore.
Her academic interests span Asian pre-modern art and Vietnamese contemporary art, with her thesis focusing on Read more.... 
Jingxuan previously worked in the financial sector. A long-standing passion for art and cultural history led her to pursue formal studies in LASALLE College of the Arts’ MA Asian Art Histories programme.
Her research focuses on Chinese art during and after the Cultural Revolution, with particular attention to how artists navigated political, social and cultural transformations in this period. 
Agnes is graduating with an MA in Asian Art Histories from LASALLE College of the Arts. She also holds a degree in multimedia arts from the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design.
Her works engage the intersections of world histories and Southeast Asian histories as mediated through art, exhibition and visual culture. Her thesis examined Xu Beihong’s art, nationalism and exhibitions in Singapore, 
In 2018, Kelly rekindled her passion for art after participating in a workplace retreat that introduced her to acrylic painting. Since then, she has been on a self-guided artistic journey, creating commissioned works and deepening her knowledge. In 2021, Kelly broadened her horizons by taking short courses on Western art histories at LASALLE College of the Arts, igniting a newfound love for the subject. 
When does art becomes difficult? Indeed, art becomes “artistically meaningful” when it is brought to face and intervene in the world. In other words, art can help reveal the difficulty of living in the world. But this is by definition a difficult task. Artists need to make sure that the way to reveal the difficulty in life is “artistic” – critical, imaginative and visionary, instead of being