Zélie

Nguyen

Born in 1993, Zélie Nguyen lives and works in Paris.
After a Master's degree in Plastic Arts at the Sorbonne, she joined the Djamel Tatah studio at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, graduating in 2021.
Currently resident artist at Tour Orion (Collectif diamètre 15) in Montreuil, she is represented by Galerie By Lara Sedbon, with whom she participates in numerous exhibitions and fairs.

Her paintings are dreamlike and symbolic, combining imaginary architectures, strange animals and mental landscapes, often inspired by Persian miniatures or medieval iconography. Through a refined plastic language and an assertive taste for ornament, she explores a personal “palace of memory”, somewhere between dream and introspection. Her pictorial work evolves in cycles of transformation, gradually integrating the event, the troubled and the real. In this way, Zélie Nguyen affirms a painting in motion, nourished by references to Giotto, Hokusai or Uccello, and turned towards the exploration of an inner world in perpetual expansion.