Nguyễn Trinh Thi is a Hanoi-based moving image artist. Her diverse practice, transcending the boundaries between cinema, documentary and performance, has consistently engaged with memory and history. 

Thi uses montage to compose her work, drawing on different media, from her own audio and visual recordings to found footage and still images from postcards, photography, newsreels, Hollywood films and ethnographic footage. Her practice currently explores the power of sound and listening, and the multiple relations between image, sound and space, with ongoing interests in memory, representation, landscape, indigeneity and ecology.

Her works have been shown at Thailand Biennale, Chiang Rai (2023), documenta fifteen, Kassel (2022), Minneapolis Institute of Art (2019), Biennale Jogja XV, Yogyakarta (2019), the 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Brisbane (2018), 21st Biennale of Sydney (2018), International Film Festival Rotterdam (2016), Jeu de Paume, Paris (2015), CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux (2015), 13th Lyon Contemporary Art Biennale (2015) and Asian Art Biennial, Taichung (2015), among others.

Thi is the director of Hanoi DOCLAB, an independent centre for documentary film and moving image art she founded in 2009.