Nguyen Ban Ga (b.1979,  Hanoi) studied at Vietnam University of Fine Arts. He is a co-founder of Hanoi Link – a pioneering video art group in Hanoi in the early 2000s – and a member of Nhà Sàn Collective, the first artist-run experimental art space in northern Vietnam.

Ban Ga’s earlier practice combined a range of media, from painting and performance to video art, revolving around personal memory, history, and the grip of ideology in contemporary society. Recently, he shifts to hand-craft and design as the anchors of his artistic language, and experiments with the materials bound closely to the artist’s own memory and private life, to test the limits of the material, as well as how they stage a story and lend it weight.

He has taken part in numerous local art projects, including 'ripples of the day' - solo show at Manzi Art Space, Hanoi - 2026; “6 v 12”, the group open studio at Manzi Art Space, Hanoi – 2025; the group show: EXHIBITION, part of the project“Skylines With Flying People 3” – Nhà Sàn Collective, Hanoi – 2016; “The Clouds Will Tell” – Nhà Sàn Collective, Hanoi – 2014; “Five Years” – Hanoi Link, Hanoi – 2012; “X second” – Goethe-Institut, Hanoi – 2010.

In 2017, he founded Ga Mộc studio, dedicated to experimenting with and developing furniture from dyed plywood, in a minimalist, versatile, and colorful design language. Holding a strict stance on material selection as a personal manifesto, Ban Ga aims to ease the pressure on natural forests, which continue to be overexploited and poorly regulated.