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Anh Duong | |
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 Duong at the 2011Tribeca Film FestivalVanity Fair party | |
| Born | (1960-10-25)25 October 1960 (age 65) |
| Occupations | Artist, actress, model |
| Years active | 1988–present |
| Spouse | |
Anh Duong (born 25 October 1960) is a French-American artist, actress, and model. She is known for her self-portraits, which she has compared to a visual diary, as well as portraits of significant art collectors and influencers.[1][2]
Duong was born inBordeaux,France, to a Spanish mother and aVietnamese father. Duong studied architecture at theÉcole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France. Having aspired to be a ballerina from an early age, she decided to pursue classical dance. Duong studied with the Franchetti Academy of Classical Dance and Tessa Beaumont until she embarked on a modeling career—being photographed forVogue, among other publications.
In 1988, Duong moved to New York City and began a career as an artist and an actress.[1]
While she was a ballet dancer in Paris, Duong was discovered by photographerDavid Seidner. He launched her career as a fashion model by featuring her withTina Chow in theYves Saint Laurent campaign forVogue. During her first years as an international fashion model, she appeared in several fashion campaigns for designers such asEmanuel Ungaro and Sybilla, for which she was photographed byDeborah Turbeville and Javier Vallhonrat. She then was featured in numerous editorials includingVogue (Italian, American, French, German and British),Harper's Bazaar, andElle.[3]
Duong was introduced toChristian Lacroix, who was launching his couture house in Paris. She quickly became one of his favorite muses for his campaign and runway fashion shows. Around that time, Duong metDolce & Gabbana in Milan,John Galliano in London, and Sybilla in Spain, and was in their first runway shows. She consistently walked for the world's top fashion designers for fashion weeks in New York, Milan, London, and Paris. They includedYohji Yamamoto,Moschino,Isaac Mizrahi,Christian Dior,Donna Karan,Karl Lagerfeld, andGeoffrey Beene.[4][5][6]
In 1988, Duong began to re-focus her acting and art career. During this time, the fashion world was leaning towards using non-models in their magazines and campaigns, and so Duong embarked on a second phase of her modeling career, as an artist featured in various campaigns. She was featured in the famous firstGap Inc. campaign shot byHerb Ritts and featured other artists and actors, all in black and white. She has been shot bySteven Meisel, Michel Comte, andPeter Lindbergh forDonna Karan and has been featured in theJ. Crew andBanana Republic campaigns.[7]
In 2013, Duong was photographed byPatrick Demarchelier forBottega Veneta.[8]
Today she is represented byIMG Worldwide.[9][10]
Anh Duong has graced many best dressed lists, most notably the International Best Dressed List byEleanor Lambert.[11]
In 1992, Duong was cast inThe Mambo Kings as her debut feature film role. Her career also includes roles in such films asI Shot Andy Warhol andLisa Cholodenko'sHigh Art, which was presented inCannes and also at theSundance Film Festival. Duong also acted in two films by French directorLaetitia Masson,For Sale andLove Me, the latter of which was screened at theBerlin Film Festival.[12]
In 2013, Duong worked onDesiree Akhavan's first feature film,Appropriate Behavior, in which she played Nasrin, the lead character's mother. The film premiered at theSundance Film Festival in 2014.[13]
Duong also appeared inLaetitia Masson's French movie,GHB.[12]
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
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| 1992 | The Mambo Kings | Ismelda Perez | Arne Glimcher | |
| 1992 | Scent of a Woman | Sofia | Martin Brest | |
| 1996 | I Shot Andy Warhol | Comtesse De Courcy | Mary Harron | |
| 1997 | My Best Friend's Wedding | Dining Guest | P. J. Hogan | |
| 1998 | High Art | Dominique | Lisa Cholodenko | |
| 1998 | For Sale | The American Painter | Laetitia Masson | |
| 2000 | Love Me | Gloria | Laetitia Masson | |
| 2014 | Appropriate Behavior | Nasrin | Desiree Akhavan | |
| 2014 | Welcome to New York | Livia | Abel Ferrara | |
| 2014 | GHB | La femme riche | Laetitia Masson | |
| 2015 | Creative Control | Fashion Director | Benjamin Dickinson | |
| 2017 | The Only Living Boy in New York | Barbara | Marc Webb | |
| 2019 | No Fault | Anne | Myna Joseph | Short |
| 2019 | Uncut Gems | Anne | Josh and Benny Safdie |
Although Duong has always drawn and painted, it was after spending a summer painting at the Warhol Estate in Montauk in 1989 that she decided to focus on art.[14] Soon after in 1991, she had her first solo exhibition at Sperone Westwater Gallery of 12 large portraits measuring 8 × 6 feet each.[15][16][17]
In 1997, she had her first museum exhibition atP.M.M.K. – Provincial Museum of Modern Art, Ostende, Belgium[15] which led to an exhibition at Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont in Paris in 1999 with more than 65 Self-portraits on display[15][18] followed by a show at theTony Shafrazi Gallery in New York in 2000.[15][19]
A book about her work,Anh Duong (Self) Portraits, was published in 2001.[20]
Duong has since become a recognized painter in New York City. Forgetting the subject to focus on the technical painting itself, she focuses on the portrait, and mostly the self-portrait she has painted on a daily basis as a diary. "(...) her paintings expose an unexpected, unglamorous, intimate relationship with her body (...) Duong's paintings should be viewed as contributions to a different genre – they belong alongside the work of women such asDora Maar,Anaïs Nin, andFrida Kahlo, artists who compellingly exposed interior worlds whose beauty, intelligence, and character inspired creativity, both in themselves and in others."[21]
Today, she is represented byGalerie Gmurzynska.[22] For her exhibition at Robilant + Voena[23] in 2014 a catalogue was published with an essay calledTrue Selfie byPhoebe Hoban in which she writes: "Painter Anh Duong has created her own personal genre: call it the 'True Selfie.' Long before digital self-images—or 'selfies'—became virtually ubiquitous, Duong, like many figurative painters, decided to make herself the subject of an ongoing series of self-portraits. But unlike other painters, who rely on their own reflection in a mirror as a reference, Duong has exclusively focused on portraying what she calls her 'true' self."
Duong's latest series of paintings, done over the past two years, shows the artist in a variety of poses, from provocatively trapped in the kitchen in couture underwear, to nakedly framed in a bathtub. But they all share the same arresting sense of the artist seeing herself for the first time, thus catching herself in a moment of profound psychological vulnerability. Stripped of her familiar, everyday persona, the paintings powerfully project dormant layers of Duong's inner self. "I feel like painting is a place where I can both hide, and I can show the most."[23][24]
TheNational Portrait Gallery (United States) acquired an 8 x 6-foot portrait Duong painted ofDiane von Furstenberg, which was part of the touring exhibitionJourney of a Dress.[25]
Duong has also worked on a number of portraits commissioned by collectors such asBruno Bischofberger,Aby Rosen,Princess Maria Theresia of Thurn and Taxis (daughter ofGloria, Princess of Thurn and Taxis),Simon de Pury and figures such asNatalia Vodianova,Domenico Dolce, andDiane von Furstenberg.[26]
Duong created a 9-foot-tall sculpture of Diane von Furstenberg forBarry Diller, used as the figurehead of his yacht, Eos.[27]
Duong has been involved in relationships with artistJulian Schnabel[42] and auction house ownerSimon de Pury.[citation needed]
In June 2006, Duong married Barton Hubbard Quillen, an architect whose maternal grandmother was the third wife of financierThomas Mellon Evans Jr., owner of 1981Kentucky Derby winnerPleasant Colony. The couple divorced in 2008.[43]
Duong lives and works between New York and East Hampton.[citation needed]
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