Nhân Phan

Hi, this is Nhan.
I base mostly in Vietnam and work accross media art, programming, and teaching.

PRACTICE⎯
Born to the era of the Internet, the computer has long been my friend. My art practice is an inquiry into that relationship between me (human) and my friend (computer). In search for humanity in that digital relationship, my works often revolve around romance, family, culture, and identity. They come into life through multiple mediums including programming, mixed-media installation, photography, prints, and language. My work has been showcased in New York, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Hanoi, and Ho Chi Minh City. I am a finalist of the Lumen Prize 2025.

Recently, I have been working on an interactive film installation with the RMIT Digital and Art Grant about digital intimacy, and building an archive of Vietnamese folklore with the Goethe-Institut Ho Chi Minh City. I also have an upcoming residency with AirHue in January 2026.

TECHNICALITY⎯
I have a background in market research and have worked extensively with data, statistics, and machine learning. I love working on databases, especially in building public archive and dataset. I also love working on integrating tech into local material. It has been a recurrent concept of my practice, including the year-long Our Vietnamese Project and my upcoming project using physical computing for Truchigraphy.

TEACHING⎯
My teaching is primarily in p5.js and creative coding. I am the founder and teacher at CodeSurfing, the first art-tech collective in Vietnam, advocating for accessibility in technology for local artists. In 2023, I was a Teaching Fellow of the Processing Foundation Fellowship, and in 2024, I continued as a mentor. Prior to this, from 2020 to 2023, I worked as a teaching assistant and later as an instructor at CoderSchool, where I led classes and workshops covering data analysis with Python, computer vision, and generative networks.

CONTACT⎯
You can reach me via my email. My teaching and programs are public via CodeSurfing (IG and Web).

I am also online on Instagram. But my IG is for me to keep human to human contact, espeically with my loved ones. So I won't turn it into a portfolio. If you decide to follow, do expect human connection⎯seeing my selfies, thirst traps, cats, houseplants, and again, LOTS of houseplants.