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Minh Ngà Dang Vu (b. 1977 in Saigon, Vietnam) works primarily with acrylic paintings on canvas and mixed media. Raised by a French couple from the age of 7, while maintaining contact with her biological family, she carried the name 'Minia' to accommodate her adoptive parents' difficulty pronouncing her birth name. Exposed to both Catholic and Buddhist teachings, Minia studied art authentication—specializing in ancient and Asian art—and later photography in Paris. She resonated with movements spanning from Impressionism to Lyrical Abstraction, shaping her own distinctive vision and style. Most of her archived collections were produced while living in San Francisco, Paris, and during her travels to India. She has exhibited in San Francisco, New York, The Hamptons, Palm Beach and Miami where she is based since 2020.

From a young age, Minia felt a natural inclination toward psychology and healing modalities. In her twenties, meeting for the first time her biological father—who lived with schizophrenia—reinforced her quest for answers through self-development and artistic practice. Her art is closely connected with her personal practice of Chi Nei Tsang, a holistic healing approach developed by the White Cloud Taoist Monks in ancient China. She strives to paint the transformative energies and alchemy that occur through physical and emotional healing as we grow in consciousness.

Minia's paintings are often described as reflecting the interconnectedness of all things and emanates the life force of Nature. Bridging Asian symbolism with her European sensibility, she brings forward the vibrancy of impermanence through repetitive patterns, fluid forms and layered, rhythmic, atmospheric color shifts. Her work invites viewers to feel the constant shifting nature of perception and sense a more liberated way of breathing into existence.

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