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出生于越南西贡，现生活工作在美国纽约。托马斯·吴通过将丝网印刷，绘画和激光雕刻图像层叠在一起，创造出代表破坏，坍缩和重生周期的幻想场景。其作品的灵感和呈现主要来源于战时在越南长大的个人记忆，图像描绘了人与机器，自然和技术之间的史诗般的冲突，作品由层层开放的空间构成，模糊想象与记忆之间的界限。托马斯吴出生在越南西贡，十岁时随家人搬到德克萨斯州的El Paso。1987年，吴获得德克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校的学士学位，于1990年在耶鲁大学继续他的学业，并在那里获得了硕士学位。自1996年以来，他一直是哥伦比亚大学艺术学院的教授。2000年，他被任命为LeRoy Neiman中心视觉艺术教授。自该中心成立以来，吴担任该中心主任/艺术总监。

吴曾在世界各地展出，并在日本，意大利，中国和越南举办过个人美术馆展览，包括: Centro Colombo Americano，波哥大(2012)和中央美术学院博物馆(北京)(2015)等；吴同时还担任巡游团体展览项目 DRAW 与持续性合作项目 Green Go Home 的策展人，目前已有100多 位艺术家参与; 吴获得过诸多奖项，包括 Joan Mitchell 基金(2001)，古根海姆基金(2002)， Sharpe-Walentas 工作室计划(2015)，第30届卢布尔雅那图像艺术双年展(2016)最佳驻地艺术 家和观众奖， Louis Comfort Tiffany 艺术家奖(2017)，以及约翰迈克尔科勒艺术中心(2018)的 艺术/工业驻地。

Tomas Vu received a BFA from the University of Texas, El Paso, and later earned an MFA from Yale University. He has been a professor at Columbia University School of the Arts since 1996 and was appointed the LeRoy Neiman Professor of Visual Arts in 2000. In 1996, Vu helped found the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies. Since its inception, he has served as Director/Artistic Director of the Neiman Center. 

Vu transforms canvases into dazzling, fantastical landscapes. While some areas are covered in depictions of fauna, others reveal intimate fragments and swirling, bubble-like worlds painted in an illusionistic fashion. Similarly, large swaths are intensely layered with an endlessly dense network of lines that have been silk-screened onto the surface, so complex that they form their own idiosyncratic geometry. Vu’s use of mechanical reproduction does not yield to issues of media and identity. Instead, they evoke associations of algorithmic reiterative logic found in digital technology. Traces of his origin and personal memories can be found in his work, which depicts the epic conflict between man and machine, nature and technology, illustrating his view of the decisive tension in our modern era. Layered open spaces, interpenetrating different dimensions: spaces come alive which blur the line between imagination and memory. Nuanced details and gigantic forms lead the viewer to fully immerse themselves in his transformative body of work.

Vu has exhibited nationally and internationally and has had solo museum shows in Japan, Italy, China, and Vietnam. He has had solo exhibitions at Milwaukee Institute for Art and Design (1998), Museum Haus Kusaya, Yokuska (2001), Centro Colombo Americano, Bogotá (2012) and the China Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Beijing (2015). 

Vu has received numerous awards including the Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship Award (2001),  Guggenheim Fellowship (2002), Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program (2015), Residency and Audience Award for Best Artist at the 30th Biennial of Graphic Arts Ljubljana (2016), the Louis Comfort Tiffany Artist Award (2017), and the Arts/Industry Residency at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center (2018). He lives and works in New York City.)