BIO
Nhu Chu, born in 2006 in Houston, Texas, is a contemporary artist residing and working in Houston, Texas. Chu is a student at St. John’s School working on her artistic skills in a more academic setting. As a result, her artistic practice is very intertwined with academic settings and influences from current events.
Her oeuvre is marked by a representative visual language and a strong expressionistic foundation. She is best know for her oil paintings, examining the human experience from a photographic and universal viewpoint. Nhu Chu is a painter of modern life, whose works serve to solidify the current events of our present society. Influenced by media coverage, the rise of technology, the fascination with the past, as well as vanity, Chu works to highlight the complexity of these new forming issues that the world faces as society progresses. Chu strives to portray her subjects as they are, capturing the essence of her subject’s character by way of gestural brushstrokes, creating fluidity in a minute moment of time. She is currently a high school senior, striving to communicate with societies through art, showing and reflecting the cultural diaspora as the world changes.
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Born in 2006 in Houston, Texas
Resides and works in Houston, Texas
Solo Exhibitions:
2024 The Lies We Tell , Clare Attwood Glassell Gallery, Houston, USA
Selected Exhibitions:
2023 High Art, O’Kane Gallery, Houston, USA
2023 Harvard Arts First, Signet Society, Cambridge, USA
2023 Scholastic Art Show, Ronald W. Reagan, Houston, USA
2023 ISAS, All Saint’s Epsicopal School, Fort Worth, USA
2023 Art Junction, A 2nd Cup, Houston, USA
2022 Scholastic Winners Show, Spring Street Studios, Houston, USA
Awards & Recognition:
2024 High Art Honorable Mention, High Art Show, Houston, USA
2024 Scholastic Art and Writing Silver Key (3), Scholastic Art & Writing, New York City, USA
2024 Scholastic Art and Writing Honorable Mention (2), Scholastic Art & Writing, New York City, USA
2023 8th Landscape Finalist, Teravarna, Los Angeles, USA
2023 7th Portrait International Honorable Mention, Teravarna, Los Angeles, USA
2023 Visual Art Award winner, St. John’s School, Houston, USA
2023 Scholastic Summer Scholarship winner, Scholastic Art & Writing, New York City, USA
2023 Scholastic Art and Writing Silver Key (1), Scholastic Art & Writing, New York City, USA
2023 Scholastic Art and Writing Honorable Mention (1), Scholastic Art & Writing, New York City, USA
2022 Scholastic Art and Writing Gold Key (1), Scholastic Art & Writing, New York City, USA
2022 Scholastic Art and Writing Silver Key (3), Scholastic Art & Writing, New York City, USA
2022 Scholastic Art and Writing Honorable Mention (4), Scholastic Art & Writing, New York City, USA
2021 Scholastic Art and Writing Honorable Mention (9), Scholastic Art & Writing, New York City, USA
Publications:
2024 “Hush” and “The Times” in Elementia.
2024 Tom Worthen, “Fall 2023 Celebrating Art” in Celebrating Art.
2023 Ariana Lee, “An International, Multimedia Anthology: Unique and United.” in International Human Rights Art Movement.
2023 Ariana Lee, Molly Hennessy, “Unlock Your Imagination” in Imagination.
2023 “Huffington” in Teen Ink.
2023 Tom Worthen, “Spring 2023 Celebrating Art” in Celebrating Art.
2023 Thom Bierd, “American Art Awards Early Submissions: Pastel Tiger, Oil Surrealism, Oil Impressionism, Watercolor Streetscapes, More” in American Art Awards.