Minh Phan arrived in Australia in 1980 as an eight year old Vietnamese boat person and went on to study medicine while concurrently studying visual arts, initially at Victoria University and later at the Victorian College of the Arts. Minh currently works as a General Practitioner in Melbourne whilst practising art, as well as raising twin daughters with his wife. Minh is interested in diaspora and identity, the power biases of observations, and in looking at the act of looking. He is also interested in aspects of time, memory and absence. His art practice includes oil painting, installation, video and performance.

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Born DaNang, Vietnam 1972
Lives and works in Melbourne Australia

Education
2011

Graduate Diploma of Visual Art, VCA
2010

Graduate Certificate of Visual Art, VCA
2009

Diploma of Visual Arts (incomplete), Victoria University
Qualified as General Practitioner
Fellowship of Royal Australasian College of General Practitioners
1999
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of
Surgery, Melbourne University

Prizes

2017
Runner Up, Footscray Art Prize
2013
First Prize, Heartlands Refugee Art Prize
2012
Runner Up, Heartlands Refugee Art Prize
2009
First Prize, Victoria University Art Prize
2008
Finalist, Shirley Hannan National Portrait Award

Exhibitions
2017
Footscray Art Prize
2016
From a Home to a Home: A story of Migration
Group exhibition using the metaphor of shorebirds to explore human migration.
2015
Forty Acts of Remembering
An exhibition commemorating the end of the Vietnam War.
Supported by City of Melbourne, Victorian
Multicultural Commission and Creative Victoria
2014
Vietnam/Australia: Voicing the Unspoken
In collaboration with the Human Rights Arts & Film Festival
2013 & 2012
Heartlands Refugee Art Prize
2011
Graduate Show, Victorian College of the Arts
2008
Shirley Hannan National Portrait Award
2007
Familiar, solo Painting Exhibition at Steps Gallery, Carlton.

Related Experience
2000
Freelance Medical Illustrator,

Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
1999
Medical Illustrator,

University of Melbourne, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology