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Antonius-Tín Bui

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There are opportunities that feel like they actively shape your entire being, even while you are still inside them. My time at MANCC Forward Dialogues the summer of 2024 was certainly one of them. I still cannot thank the facilitators, cohort, and everyone who held this laboratory enough for embracing me and Jeric, two artists who were initially surprised to find ourselves invited into a space for movement-based artists. Through generosity, care, spaciousness, and trust, we left more attuned to one of our many forms, Monsoon x Typhoon. Over those two weeks in Tallahassee, we wandered through written, embodied, photographic, and sonic explorations, slowly discovering the poetics of our collaboration. A practice invested in repair, ritual, and the animacy of our world, which feels so alive whenever I am with you. You became a channel for the jellyfish, alligators, wasps, anhinga, Spanish moss, shores, and so much more around us, teaching me to listen closely to the teachings that are always speaking. Thank you Yanira Castro, Makini and Joseph Hall, and my beautiful cohort: Benji Hart, Edrimael Delgado Reyes, Caleb Dowden, HighHealDoula, Majesty Royale-Jackson, Graciella Ye’Tsunami, Kimiko Tanabe, Nora Alami, John Maria Gutierrez, Irisdelia Garcia, Rebecca Fitton, and Emily Hansel. One day, Jeric and I hope to bring another iteration of Monsoon x Typhoon into the world. Until then, may we continue to love one another through the storms that every season brings 🌊 📸: Chris Cameron & Lyndon Bonnett by @buimonster
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As we collectively sway into autumn and the remainder of 2026, I find myself returning to these creatures, spirits, and more-than-human beings born from attunement to seasonality and shadow. Fallen twigs, petals, seeds, tendrils, bark, skins, and other fragments gathered across New Haven, North Adams, Chicago, and beyond are slowed, magnified, and honored via hand-cut paper cyanotypes. Through touch, exposure, and accumulation, they bloom into hybrid guardians. The works move cyclically. Cyanotype informs cut paper, cut paper informs surface. Each piece has touched another, forming a mycelial network of cross-pollination. Perhaps this is another way of imagining time. Another way of being with land, with our kin, with what we cannot fully name or understand. 🍂Like you, it too was often just storm of not knowing why., 2026 hand cut paper and acrylic airbrush with cyanotype collage 86 x 41 in 📸 @bob.mov All images courtesy of the artist and @moniquemeloche 🍂Feel the warmth, the heat, the glow, it’s ours to know. I want to give it name and say it to you, but I don’t know the words., 2026 hand cut paper and acrylic airbrush 61 x 49 1/2 in 🍂When the fact of your gaze means nothing, then you are truly alongside, 2026 hand cut paper and acrylic airbrush with cyanotype collage 86 x 49 in 🍂no need for heaven, this is how it started: way out beyond below, the sweet of your lips dipped in promise, 2026 hand cut paper and acrylic airbrush 63 x 49 1/4 in taken in Monique Meloche Gallery by @buimonster
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“My belief in the transformative potential of art and craft is only being more and more invigorated.” During Session 1, Visiting Artist Antonius-Tín Bui (@buimonster) brought a generous energy to the campus, setting the tone for an incredible summer. They hosted one-on-one tarot readings, led movement workshops, and co-produced a fashion show showcasing the garments created in the Session 1 Fiber studio alongside Rachael Levine and Diana Kennedy. Antonius-Tín Bui (they/them) is a polydisciplinary artist and shapeshifter invested in the transformative potential of improvisation, portraiture, craft, and ritual. A monsoon in a past life, they see themself most in movement—in wind, in the shifting blues of the sky, in the quiet sway between presence and disappearance. “Antonius-Tín” is just one of many names unearthed thus far. Indigo, Monsoon, MiuMiu, Umami, and Sky are some others. The child of Paul and Van Bui, two Vietnamese refugees who carved futures from grief and grit, Antonius-Tín carries their legacy in every gesture. Their work honors the spectral, the tender, and the unruly—crafting portals for what cannot be named, only felt, only danced with ancestral shadow. #CraftSchoolExperience #ArtistResidency #CraftArtists #HaystackAt75 #CraftCommunity taken in Haystack Mountain School of Crafts by @buimonster
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READING CLOUDS BEYOND THE ROAD I CALCULATE OUR DISTANCE, SURVEY THE SPACE BETWEEN OUR CLOTHES WHERE RISING CURVES AND MOUNTAIN TUG FOR AIR, TOUCH, RELEASE., 2026 joss paper (ancestral burning paper), vintage and contemporary porn magazines, gold leaf, hand-cut paper, candle wax, evidence of burning, marker, personal photographs, and handmade paper 44 3/4 x 94 in 📸: @bob.mov by @buimonster
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four years, four self portraits 🪞There are many ways to hold water without being called a vase. To drink all the history until it is your only song., 2022 hand cut paper, ink, and paint 86 x 42 in 🪞can’t believe I’ve become someone else, someone more like myself, 2025 hand cut heavyweight printmaking paper, ink, pencil, acrylic paint 97 x 50 1/2 in 🪞Until the somewhere else before you agreed to move. Then you are language, too., 2025 cyanotype collage, hand cut heavyweight printmaking paper 106 1/2 x 65 1/2 in 🪞Growl out with howling, blue vibrato, and own everything weather has done to you., 2026 hand cut paper and acrylic airbrush 105 x 44 1/4 in 📸: @bob.mov taken in Monique Meloche Gallery by @buimonster
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Antonius-Tín Bui: here, there is a different kind of sun Swipe to view installation and artwork images from our current exhibition, on view through March 14. Join us this Saturday at 3pm for ‘Beneath the Siren’s Gaze’, a live performance activating the exhibition. Commissioned for the presentation, @iammizu__ 's immersive score comes alive with live cello as @buimonster and collaborator @kimiko_tanabe move through the installation in an unfolding exploration of ritual and diasporic memory. Free RSVP through the link in our bio! 💙⚡️ Antonius-Tín Bui, Reading clouds beyond the road I calculate our distance, survey the space between our clothes where rising curves and mountain tug for air, touch, release., 2026, 44 3/4 x 94 in; When the fact of your gaze means nothing, then you are truly alongside, 2026, 86 x 49 in; Like you, it too was often just storm of not knowing why., 2026, 86 x 41 in Photos by @bob.mov taken in Monique Meloche Gallery by @buimonster
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Join us next Saturday for ‘Beneath the Siren’s Gaze’, a live performance activating ‘here, there is a different kind of sun’, our current solo exhibition by Antonius-Tín Bui. 💫   Commissioned for the exhibition, MIZU’s immersive score comes alive in a special performance featuring the artist on live cello, with Antonius-Tín Bui and collaborator Kimiko Tanabe moving through the installation in an unfolding activation of ritual and diasporic memory. Sound, movement, and sculpture converge in a powerful, durational experience; an invitation to gather inside Bui’s luminous world. Featuring MIZU @iammizu__ Photo: Honglin Cai Kimiko Tanabe @kimiko_tanabe Photo: Maria Baranova and Antonius-Tín Bui @buimonster Photo: Chris Cameron Saturday, March 7 3 PM RSVP at the link in bio! taken in Monique Meloche Gallery by @buimonster
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Antonius-Tín Bui, In what little time we have left, let me remember you, let me remember what lay beneath your weather, 2026 Hand cut paper and acrylic airbrush 62 1/2 x 41 1/2 in Featured in ‘here, there is a different kind of sun’, @buimonster's current solo presentation at moniquemeloche, on view through March 14. 🦋 Photos: @bob.mov taken in Monique Meloche Gallery by @buimonster
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Lunar New Year Look Back: Antonius-Tín Bui⁠ ⁠ Happy year of the Fire Horse! 🐴❤️‍🔥 All across the country and world, families are gathering together to celebrate, each bringing their own unique customs, observances, and celebratory traditions to this special holiday. Known in Vietnam as Tết (short for Tết Nguyên Đán, or The First Morning of the Year), it is a time of rest and renewal. It’s also a time to honor one’s ancestors at home altars and temples, with burnt offerings of joss paper (also known as spirit money or incense paper), favored foods, and flowers. ⁠ ⁠ Let’s take a look at how former HCCC resident artist Antonius-Tín Bui (@buimonster), Bronx-born-and-Houston-raised child of Vietnamese refugees, drew on their heritage to bring the trappings of Lunar New Year to a very different type of celebration in “Mums,” installed in HCCC’s Case Study space back in 2021! 🌸🌟⁠ ⁠ The form and name of these extravagantly detailed pieces are a nod to the Texan high school homecoming tradition of making and wearing large and elaborate pins featuring faux chrysanthemums, ribbons, and trinkets. Many students and their family members make their own personalized mums, as Antonius-Tín did here. Dripping with peacock feathers, incense, and joss paper, they flash with red and gold: the dominant color palette of Lunar New Year celebrations. This “queering” of the traditional Texas mum also centers Antonius-Tín’s Vietnamese-American identity, reimagining this traditional object as an outlet for self-expression in an environment that can be difficult for youth who do not identify with “traditional” gender norms or cultural expectations. ⁠ ⁠ With these gloriously fun and fabulous mums, Antonius-Tín speaks proudly to their history and invites others who may not see themselves represented in any one culture to embrace the beauty of a multifaceted identity. ⁠ Wishing everyone (especially all you Fire Horses out there!) an auspicious, joyful, and fun-filled Tết! ⁠ ⁠ 📸⁠ 1-7. Antonius-Tín Bui, “Mums,” 2021. Photos by @katyandhercamera by @buimonster
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skin was where you belonged, a who you were with, a reason someone might, 2024 joss paper (ancestral burning paper), vintage and contemporary porn magazines, gold leaf, hand-cut paper, candle wax, evidence of burning, and marker 73 x 49 in 📸: @bob.mov On view till March 14th @moniquemeloche by @buimonster
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Many thanks to writer Ally Fouts and @newcitymag for this thoughtful review of ‘here, there is a different kind of sun’, Antonius-Tín Bui’s current solo exhibition at moniquemeloche. Fouts writes, “Bui’s work splits the body and the spirit, pairing queer desire with quiet, oceanic introspection.” Swipe to read excerpts from the review alongside installation views and featured works. On view through March 14 ✨ @buimonster @newcitymag @ally.fouts taken in Monique Meloche Gallery by @buimonster
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On view now moniquemeloche is pleased to share installation and opening reception images from ‘here, there is a different kind of sun’, a solo exhibition by Antonius-Tín Bui, which brings together hand-cut paper, cyanotype, scent, and sound to explore ritual, intimacy, and transformation. The opening evening reflected an incredible sense of community and care, we’re so grateful to everyone who joined us. 💜 ‘here, there is a different kind of sun’ is on view through March 14. @buimonster Photos: @bob.mov taken in Monique Meloche Gallery by @buimonster
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