Nam Duc Nguyen is a Vietnamese-Canadian artist living and working in Berlin. Born in Edmonton, Nam spent time studying in Edmonton, Vancouver, and Halifax. Recipient of the Plaskett Award for Painting in 2008, Nam spent a year researching and travelling across Europe. Immersing himself in both old master painting and cutting edge contemporary art, Nguyen later settled in Berlin where he established his painting career. Now an expat, his parents immigrants themselves, Nguyen has thought a lot about language, art, and how we communicate. Drawn into abstraction after growing up between cultures and languages, the non-verbal, non-narrative forms of expression felt like a common ground.