Ha Tri Hieu

Ha Tri Hieu is one of the founding fathers of Vietnamese contemporary art. He is a member of Hanoi’s ‘Gang of Five’ (including Hong Viet Dung, Ha Tri Hieu, Dang Xuan Hoa, Tran Luong and Pham Quang Vinh), the first group of young artists to gain international renown after Vietnam opened up in the late1980s.

The subject of much of Ha Tri Hieu’s poetic, expressionist work is the beauty and simplicity of rural life in Vietnam. Born in the capital Hanoi in 1959, Hieu was deeply influenced by the years he spent as child in the countryside where his family sought refuge during the Vietnam War. Recurring images of water buffalos and stone temple dogs evoke feelings of nostalgia and the innocence of childhood.

What makes Hieu’s oil paintings unique is the symbiosis between romantic and expressionistic elements, between naïve forms and impetuously chosen colours, combined with a refined understanding of the subtleness of light. Ha Trieu has had exhibitions in Vietnam, the United States, Japan, England, Hong Kong, Thailand, Australia, the Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Argentina, Malaysia, South Korea and Taiwan.

• Career of Ha Tri Hieu

  
  1959  Born in Hanoi.
  1983 Graduated from the Hanoi Industrial Fine Arts College
  Member of the Vietnam Fine Arts Association
  Member of the “Gang of Five ”
   
  1990  ‘The Gang of Five’ exhibition Hanoi, Vietnam
  1991  ‘The Gang of Five’  exhibition Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
  1993 ‘The Gang of Five’ exhibition Hanoi, Vietnam
             6th Asian Art Exhibition, Bangladesh
  
  1994  ‘The Gang of Five’ exhibition Turtle Key Gallery London, England
  1995 ‘Six  Vietnamese artists’, Yokohama Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
                ‘Contemporary Vietnamese Fine Art’, Itoyama Gallery Tokyo, Japan
  1996  Solo Exhibition, Red River Gallery Hanoi
                ‘ The Gang of Five’ exhibition, La Vong Gallery, Hong Kong
                 Group show Cicada Gallery of Fine Arts, Singapore
                 ‘New Vietnamese painting’, Contemporary Arts Exhibition Thailand
  1997 Group show Gallery 19 Hanoi, Vietnam
                ‘Vietnamese Fine Arts after Doi Moi’, Fujita Vente Museum, Tokyo Japan
                Group exhibition The Hague, the Netherlands
                Exhibition ‘A Winding River – A Journey of Contemporary Art in Vietnam’, Meridian International Center, Washington D.C., USA
                Exhibition of two (with Phan Cam Thuong), Gallery La Vong, Hong Kong
               ‘A New Morning’, Hanoi, Vietnam
  1998  ‘Vietnam Express’, touring exhibition, Norway
                 Solo exhibition, Mai Gallery Hanoi, Vietnam
                 Group exhibition Dong Son Gallery, Hanoi
                ‘Vietnam in the 20th century’, Brussels, Belgium
  1999 Group exhibition, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  2000  Group exhibition at Red River Gallery Hanoi, Vietnam
  2001 Group exhibition at Red River Gallery Hanoi, Vietnam
                Exhibition "Vietnamese identity" Melbourne, Australia
  2003-2004, Singapore Art Museum, The Japan Foundation, Tama Art University Museum and the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, (ASEAN-COCI).
  2003 15 TRACKS : Contemporary Southeast Asian Art traveling exhibition
  2007 SoSaBeol international art expo, Korea.
  2008 My Way, Art Vietnam Gallery, Hanoi, Vietnam
  2010 Solo Exhibition, September 10 – October 1, Art Vietnam, Gallery, Hanoi, Vietnam
  August 2012 - Group exhibition in Hong-Kong 'Vietnam now'
  June 2014 - Exhibition 'portraits' at the Vietnam Art gallery
  July 2014 - exhibition in duo with the sculptor Tran Duc Sy
  



• Gallery of Ha Tri Hieu

  

  HTH213, 150x190cm

  

  HTH4, 40x32cm

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