Hoan Rahlan is an artist from Vietnam. She currently resides in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she has called home since 2007. She is a member of the Montagnard people (the indigenous peoples of the Central Highlands of Vietnam) in her homeland. Coming from this background and culture is one of the most important factors within her artwork. Rahlan graduated from Barton College in 2017 with a Bachelor of Fine Art degree. She presently attends UNCG to obtain her MFA. Rahlan's main medium is oil paint but through her MFA program, she has started to experiment with different materials such as cold wax, fabrics, yarn, wire, wood, and many more. It has been important for Rahlan to focus on variety of material as she alternately ventures into various new subjects, topics, or symbols in her work. She has begun to incorporate the varying aspects of her history between her two homes, America and Vietnam. While living in a way that clearly exhibits the experiences she has gathered as Montagnard and American, Rahlan strives to create work that merges the cultures along with the self to portray her own sense of "home" and its impact on the individual.

Education:

  • UNCG (Master of Fine Art) : Studio Arts

  • Barton College (Bachelor of Fine Art) concentration: Painting and minoring in Gallery collection studies

Showcased:

  • 2022 The Little Prince : Seeing with the heart (Charlotte NC)

  • 2022 Common (WestSide Creatives) at The Arts Factory (Charlotte NC)

  • 2022 Power In Your Presence at Mcdowell Art Center (Mathews NC)

  • 2022 Little Prince Show (Free for all) Hartwitzen Gallery (Charlotte NC)

  • 2022 BOOM Festival (Charlotte NC)

  • 2022 Artfields (South Carolina)

  • 2021 Queen City Family Tree 16th Anniversary (Charlotte NC)

  • 2021 In your Mother’s eyes (MFA thesis) (Greensboro NC)

  • 2020 Fumes at Project Greensboro Space (Graduate students show) Showcased “another room testing” Film. (Greensboro NC)

  • 2017 Senior Show exhibition in Barton Art Gallery (Wilson NC)

  • 2016 Student show-hackney library at Barton College ( Wilson NC)

    Junior show exhibition in Barton Art gallery.

  • 2015-2016 Student jury show at Barton Art Gallery (Wilson NC)

Experience:

  • 2022 Art Instructor at CPCC ( Central Piedmont Community College)

  • 2019 Assistant at WMA (UNCG)

  • 2018-2019 Digital Design lab Assistant at UNCG

  • 2018 Teaching Assistant at UNCG

  • 2016 Internship at NCMA

Gallery Assistant at Barton College - Scholastics

Commission work for Richard Steward

Eyes on main Street

  • 2015-2017 Barton Art gallery intern