Matt Huynh

24 February – 21 July 2018

New York based graphic artist and illustrator Matt Huynh continually pushes the boundaries in his artistic pursuits as he explores themes of war, refugees, the Vietnamese diaspora and the Cabramatta and Chinatown communities.

Growing up in the Fairfield local area, the exhibition takes a reflective look at just a portion of his extraordinary body of work; delving into his inspirations and processes as an artist through the display of development work including mock-up comic books, mood boards, process notes and storyboard index cards.

The exhibition features many of Matt Huynh’s acclaimed graphic works such as The Boat, an interactive graphic comic adaptation of Nam Le’s short story tracing the collective trauma of the Vietnamese diaspora, and his graphic novel CAB, a series of short comics based on true stories from Cabramatta. MA is a comic book about the refugees arriving at a Malaysian refugee camp after the fall of Saigon and The Ark, an animated adaptation of prologue to Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel, developed for the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Centre.

Chinese calligraphy painting of a family of four huddled together by Matt Huynh