Phuong Truong’s work is an exploration of what escapes words — emotional states, fragments of memory, quiet tensions, and the subtleties of identity. Her paintings feel like whispered narratives: solitary figures, fleeting gestures, or silent interiors rendered in muted tones and restrained lines. There is often more suggested than shown.

Deeply influenced by her bicultural background, Truong draws from both Vietnamese and French cultural references, but lets them speak in undertones. What emerges are images that feel like visual echoes — tender, elusive, and intimate. Each piece is a suspended moment, like a memory you can’t quite place but feel deeply.

Working primarily with painting and drawing, she cultivates an atmosphere of emotional stillness. Her palette is pale, her brushwork light, and yet the works hold weight — a kind of visual gravity that invites introspection rather than spectacle.

Born in 1995, Phuong Truong studied illustration at École Estienne before continuing her education at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (ENSAD) in Paris, where she refined her visual vocabulary through painting. Over time, she developed a practice centered on emotional nuance, narrative silence, and suggestion.

Truong has exhibited her work in Paris, Brussels, and Seoul, and her pieces are held in private collections across Europe and Asia. Each exhibition adds a layer to her ongoing investigation of identity, vulnerability, and presence — not as something loud or defined, but as something felt in the quiet, in the in-between.

Her art doesn’t demand attention — it invites presence. Whether a gesture, a glance, or an absence, what she paints is not the event but its residue: what lingers.