About
Rodney Dickson
Born in 1956 in Northern Ireland, Rodney Dickson grew up during the Troubled years of civil disorder. Having drawn and painted since childhood, his work developed as a direct response to those early conditions — and to the larger question of what art can hold when violence has marked the body and the social world.
Over time, this inquiry expanded through sustained research in Vietnam and Cambodia. Projects there since 1992 have brought Dickson face to face with the aftermath of conflict in its most indiscriminate form, an encounter that remains central to how the work is built.
The archive gathered here moves across painting, installation, moving image, and sound. Together, the materials read less like a promotional portfolio and more like a record of practice built across time, place, and historical residue.
Queen Bee
Exhibition & Sound Installations
Recreating the sensory environment of vanished Saigon bar spaces, the Queen Bee series employs performance, structural environments, video recordings, and historical sound files to examine war's aftermath on civilian memory.
Exchange
Vietnam Art Projects New York
Rodney Dickson serves as artist and director of VAPNY, an organisation advancing contemporary art in Vietnam through creative cultural exchange, residencies, and programs connecting New York and Vietnam.