Danh Vo in conversation with Tom McDonough

Baillie Court, Art Gallery of Ontario.

Join artist Danh Vo in conversation with art historian and critic Tom McDonough as they discuss Vo’s exhibition in Galleria Italia at the AGO.

Danh Vo was born in 1975 in Bà Rịa, Vietnam. As a child he fled with his family and settled in Denmark. Vo lives in rural Germany on his studio and farm, Güldenhof. Vo represented Denmark at the Venice Biennale in 2015 and that same year, co-curated Slip of the Tongue at the Punta della Dogana, Venice. In 2013 and 2019, he participated in the International Exhibition of the Biennale. Selected institutional solo exhibitions include the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2026); Fondazione Nicola del Roscio, Rome, Italy (2026); M+, Hong Kong (2024–ongoing); Bourse de Commerce, Paris (2023); Mudam Luxembourg (2021); Secession, Vienna (2021); National Museum of Art, Osaka (2020); and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2018). He was awarded the Blau Orange Kunstpreis der Deutschen Volksbanken und Raiffeisenbanken in 2007 and the Hugo Boss Prize in 2012.