Thumỹ Phan
Artist Bio
Thumy Phan is a Vietnam born illustrator, artist, muralist and designer currently based in Oklahoma City. She strives to tell stories with her work, with a big focus on BIPOC stories. Her personal work is heavily influenced by her family’s history and her own childhood memories and experiences of growing up in the US as a Vietnamese, immigrant, permanent resident raised in OKC. She draws inspiration from the phrase "We are the fruits of our mother's labor," both in reference to her mother and her mother land, Vietnam and often uses imagery of fruits and flora taking root in her personal work to highlight those words. She graduated from Columbia College Chicago in 2013 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design and then worked in the creative field for 7 years as a graphic and digital designer. In 2019, she moved back to OKC and decided to become a full time freelancing illustrator and artist in 2020. Since then she’s been featured as a muralist at Sunny Dayz Mural Festival and Plaza Walls Mural Expo, exhibited work in OVAC’s 12×12 Art Fundraiser, collaborated with Curbside Chronicle on their Wrap Up Homelessness program, and was the Paseo Arts Festival 2022 Featured Artist. In 2023, she was chosen as a final artist to be a part of Itinerant Immersive’s Abandoned Spaceship Traveling Installation and she is The Tulsa Map’s 2024 winning artist.
Thumy is excited to be a part of the group of growing artists sharing what it looks like to be loudly and proudly AANHPI. She’s looking forward to challenging old beliefs and helping to shape new narratives in OKC’s art community.
Artist Work
Title: 45th Annual Paseo Arts Festival Poster
Category: Visual Arts
Genre: Design, Digital Media, Drawing, Illustration
Description: Poster design for the 45th Annual Paseo Arts Festival.
Title: Fresh
Category: Visual Arts
Genre: Mural, Painting
Description: Mural for Plaza Walls Mural Expo 2023. Oklahoma City, OK. 29' wide x 10' high.
Title:Ði Cho
Category: Visual Arts
Genre: Mural, Painting
Description: Mural for Sunny Dayz Mural Festival 2022 and Edmond VIBES paint off. Edmond, OK. 5' wide x 6' high.
Location
73103