Biography:
- Nguyen Minh Thanh
was born in 1971 in Kim Lan village near Hanoi.
- He graduated from
The Fine Arts University of Hanoi in 1996.
- He works mainly with
Chinese ink and hand-made paper. The subjects he draws are
real people and animals in dream-like worlds of children's
songs.
- He is now living in
both Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
- Nguyen Minh Thanh -
At the Turn of Century ( by Duong Tuong ) ;
At the turn of the
century , Nguyen Minh Thanh's art work illustrates how the traditional
can be wedded so smoothly with the modern . Just out of school ,
he had to his credit two solo exhibitions , both installation work.To
Thanh , all beauty seems to present itself in the eternally comforting
form of early recollections.In Thanh,s words,installations as well as
individual pieces, there are lots of self-portraits in which he
invariably appears as a little boy... - Exhibition:
- Solo exhibitions
- 1996 -
Installation, 29 Hang Bai, Hanoi, Vietnam
- 1997 - My Face,
Vietnam Gallery, Ho-Chi-Minh City, Vietnam
- 1997 - A story
like another, Galerie l'Atelier, Hanoi, Vietnam
- 1999 - Letter to
my mother, Artist unlimited, Bielefeld, Germany
- Group exhibitions
- 1995 - Young
artists - new paintings, Salon Natasha, Hanoi, Vietnam
- 1998 - Vietnam
express, Norway touring exhibition
- 1998 -
Paris-Hanoi-Saigon, Pavillon des Arts, Paris, France
- 1999 - Gap
Vietnam, House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany
- 1999 - 3rd Asia-
Pacific Triennial of contemporary art, Queensland, Australia
1999 - 9 live, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney, Australia
- Participated in
more than 20 other group exhibitions in Vietnam, Singapore,
Germany, France, Japan, USA and Netherlands
- Thanh's
works are also in the permanent collections of the United Nations,
the Vatican, the White House, the Embassy of the US - Hanoi, and
Vietnam's Embassy - Washington, Paris, Singapore, and Bonn...
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