Tran Nu Yen Khe was born in Da Nang. She has lived in Paris since the age of one. She works across sculpture, painting and cinema. She studied at the prestigious École Camondo, a school of product design and interior architecture in Paris. The artist’s Borderline (2018), a striking sculpture made of traditional Vietnamese lacquer, was acquired in 2019 by Musée Guimet in Paris making history as the first contemporary artwork from Southeast Asia to be included in the French National Collections.
Alongside her visual art practice, Yen Khe has built a distinguished career in film over the last 30 years as the lead actress in Scent of Green Papaya (1993), Cyclo (1995), and The Vertical Ray of the Sun (2000), among others and recently served as Art Director and Costume Designer for The Taste of Things (2023), directed by Tran Anh Hung – winner of the Best Director Award at the 76th Cannes Film Festival and that represented France for the Oscars and being selected to the shortlist of 15 films to compete in the 96th Oscar Award for Best International Film .
At the end of 2023, she had a solo exhibition of paintings and sculptures at the Galerie Quynh.
She received a César nomination for costumes in 2024 for the “Taste of Things”.
