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Open Access link to full article: ABSTRACT: Male and female artists in Vietnam from the early 1990s to the new millennium have contributed art that gives visibility to non-normative lifestyles that go against the traditional values espoused by national rhetoric. Research shows that this also happens in other parts of the world, suggesting that feminist art practice is alive and well, although the framework and language used to define it calls for a reappraisal.

Nonetheless, a number of artists do not overtly define their practice as feminist art, even when intentionally creating work with a liberating undercurrent. By unravelling some of the messages on womanhood and female identity in contemporary artworks by women artists, this article proposes that feminist art exists in Vietnam, on the basis that it challenges social norms, critiques the pressures on women imposed by social structures, raises awareness on women's issues and models alternative modes of thought. The purpose of this article is to conjoin various topics relating to women's sense of self, observe how they have been represented in contemporary art, and lay a basic groundwork upon which a feminist art history can grow. The existence of feminist art in Vietnam has been denied by one scholar, yet the shortage of published research on the topic leaves little room for a theoretical discussion. The focus of this study is to open a debate on feminist art practice in Vietnam. This inquiry into the concerns currently faced by women in Vietnam notes the transformation of feminist ideas in the country from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day.