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Born in Paris in 1972, he is a self-taught artist with instinctive style. As an unconventional personality, his works are just as much. Working with charcoal, gouache felt, oil or even pen, each of his paintings appears as a combat, a hand-to-hand confrontation with matter from which arises a will: to reveal the deepest of the human being through the lines and color.
Most of Hom’s work revolves around the creation of monumental portraits. The choice of colors, the application of the material or the vivacity of the gesture are always done in order to show to the world his vision of the human being beyond appearances. His works capture and transcend the depth of feelings and the complexity of the emotions that overwhelm the human soul.
MAEYE
With MĀEYE, Hom Nguyen ventures into a new aesthetic and emotional territory. For the first time, he steps away from depicting entire faces to focus on a single, intimate, and universal motif: the gaze.
In this series, eyes are no longer just facial features—they are mirrors of the soul, carriers of intergenerational emotions, and silent storytellers. The exhibition explores the profound bond between mother and child, rendered in eyes filled with trust, tenderness, and unspoken love. These are not portraits of individuals; they are portraits of relationships, of connection, of what passes in silence from one generation to the next. Through these close-up visions, Hom Nguyen composes a visual dialogue about care, loss, transmission, and protection.
The artist’s reflection on motherhood and femininity finds a natural resonance in Thailand, where feminine energy is omnipresent—in beliefs, rituals, and everyday gestures. In a culture that honours motherhood, empathy, and the spiritual power of women, Hom Nguyen's work takes on added depth and symbolic weight.
For Hom Nguyen, whose heritage is Southeast Asian, Thailand is not just an exhibition setting—it is a landscape of memory and identity. This cultural proximity strengthens the emotional charge of the project and offers viewers a unique opportunity to experience his work through a local, spiritual lens.
