Born in 1998, graduated from Ho Chi Minh University of Fine Arts (Silk painting major), Nguyen Thi Xuan Mai is one of outstanding young talent among Southern emerging artists.

While Xuan Mai's silk paintings are technically proficient and painstakingly executed, with a rich traditional Asian poetry style, her watercolor sketches have a free and fresh spirit, with innocent and whimsical touch of Western comics, and modern anime art. Teenage characters appear frequently in Xuan Mai's paintings, whether in urban dull settings or abstract backgrounds and surreal scenes. These characters appear to be stuck, disconnected in loneliness, feeling lost, insecure - all of which are unavoidable youth crises in an era of rapidly changing technology. With brilliant, lively hues that contrast with the dismal mood and features reminiscent of the stifling metropolis, Xuan Mai's paintings breathe life into all the nuances: beauty and struggle, trust and disillusionment, joy and disappointment.