Phuong Linh was born and raised at Nha San, the first alternative artist-run space for experimental art in North Vietnam that was co-founded by her father Nguyen Manh Duc. She has been absorbed in an artistic environment by living and working here alongside generations of respected contemporary artists of Vietnam and involving herself in the local art community both as an artist and art organizer. As an artist, her practice is a multidisciplinary work spanning installation, sculpture and video. Her art is poetic and fragmented, humble and exalted, and always concerned with geographic cultural shifts, traditional roots, and the splintered history of Vietnam. With all these elements, it traces a complex network of ethnicities, religions and cultural and geo-political influences. Her works contemplate visible versus invisible truths, forms and time, and conveys a pervasive sense of alienation, dislocation and the ephemeral. Phuong Linh travels for field research and to collect artifacts from historical sites. She transforms these materials in order to construct alternative interpretations of fragmented histories, personal narratives, and memories.

Linh Phuong Nguyen has participated in collective and individual exhibitions in Vietnam, countries in Asia, Europe as well as US. Her most notable curatorial projects include the international performance art festival IN:ACT in Hanoi and the exhibition series Skylines with Flying People. She received awards and support from the Pollock-Kasner Foundation (US), Hans Nefkens Foundation – BACC Award for Contemporary Art (Thailand), Prince Claus Foundation (The Netherlands), Asian Cultural Council (US) and Mondriaan Foundation (The Netherlands). In 2013, she co-founded Nha San Collective.