Nguyen Tan Cuong

A taciturn and anxious artist, Nguyen Tan Cuong is born in Hanoi in 1953. He has graduated from the Fine Arts Academy of Saigon in 1973 just little time before the reunification war of his country.
He participates for the first time to the national painting contest in 1985. In 1991, he shows his work in Paris and in 1993 in Singapore. In 1994 it will be Japan with an exhibition in Tokyo and Hong Kong. He will expose several paintings during the Mekong exhibitions of 1995 and 1996 in Switzerland. In 1996, he exposes some of his work in the Fujita Art Museum of Tokyo and he participates to the 11th International Contest of Asia taking place in Manila.

concours, 1998, oil on canvas, 120x120cm (Not in H&S Collections)

In 1996 and in 2000, he wins the Philips Morris price that recognizes the best artists of the ASEAN countries exposing in Bangkok. Nguyen Tan Cuong is currently working in a very personal and coherent style. He builds a universe made of translucent representations and multifaceted characters. Everyone can find a small piece of itself by looking at this fascinating imaginary world. Nguyen Tan Cuong is a very discreet and anxious person who is naturally expressing himself with his brushes to bring us in his universe. He is often associated with his remarkable friends Nguyen Tan Cuong and Tran Van Thao.

After the H & S contest, his works have been exhibited in Korea, California and Italy (1998), then it will exhibit, in addition to Vietnam, in Brighton in 2000, Canada in 2008 and 2010 in Thailand.
The enigmatic nature of these characters has evolved into complex and broken faces, very much like the artist Do Hoang Tuong.

• Career of Nguyen tan Cuong

  1953 Born in Hanoi
  1973 Graduated from Saigon Fine Arts College
  Member of the Fine Arts Association of Vietnam
  Member of the Ho Chi Minh City Fine Arts Association

  1985 National Fine Arts Exhibition, HCMC
  1986 Young Artists Exhibition. Ho Chi Minh City
  1989 National Young Artists Exhibition. HCMC
  1990 First Annual “Recent Works” exhibition by a group 10 artists from HCMC
  1991 Participated in the “Reminiscent from the Land of Vietnam”. Paris
  1992 Second Annual “Recent Works” exhibition by a group 10 artists from HCMC
  Abstract Vietnamese Exhibition. HCMC
  1993 Participated in the “ New Space” group exhibition by Vietnamese and Singapore artists. HCMC
  Exhibition by Vietnamese and French Artists, NK Gallery. HCMC
  Painting Exhibition by 2 artists. Ho Chi Minh City
  Fourth Annual “Recent Works” exhibition by a group 10 artists. HCMC
  Fifth Annual “Recent Works” exhibition by a group 10 artists from HCMC. Hanoi
  1994 Participated in the show “Spring” by Vietnamese and American artists at the Fine Arts Museum HCMC
  Participated in the Asian Friendship Exhibition . Tokyo . Japan
  Participated in the Asian Friendship Exhibition . Fine Arts Museum HCMC
  Participated “VIETNAM FESTIVAL – MAY 1994” . Hong Kong

  1996 "11th ASIAN INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITION", Metropolitan Museum of Manila,Philippines.
  "Vietnamese Art after Doi Moi", Fujita Vente Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan.
  With H&S Art Gallery, exhibitions "Man & Woman" in HCMC in September 1997, in Paris ( Espace Kiron) in December 1997 and in Brussels (H&S Art Gallery) in February 1998.

  1995 Participated in NOGA HILTON in Geneva – Vietnamese Arts Exhibition - Switzerland (December) - Mekong 95
  June 1996 Participated in Exhibition in Ballens. Switzerland . Mekong 96.
  1997 "A Winding River: The Journey of Contemporary Art in Vietnam" at Meridian International Center,Washington D.C.,USA. Traveled to various venues in the USA.
  "Vietnamese Art after Doi Moi", New World Hotel-HCMC
  1998 "The finest Collections from Sister Cities, Museum Pusan Art Metropolitan, Korea
  "Saigon Perspectives", Pacific Bridge Contemporary Southeast Asian Art, Oakland, California, USA with friend Do Hoang Tuong, painter
  "L'anima Soffocata" Museo Biblioteca Archivio, Bassano del Grappa, Italy.
  1999 The 8th annual "Recent Works" exhibition, a group of nine artists, City Exhibition House, HCMC
  "Nine Artists from HCMC", Galerie Vinh Loi, HCMC
  2000 Group Exhibitions, Galerie Vinh Loi, HCMC ART XXI Gallery, HCMC
  “Asian Art 2000 - A vision of change“ university of Brighton & Sallis Benney Theatre.
  Solo exhibition City Exhibition House, Hochiminh City, Vietnam, “Light”, organized by Gallery Quynh.
  2004 Solo exhibition “Nguyen Tan Cuong, Painting & sculpture” Organized by Gallery Quynh, Hochiminh City, Vietnam.
  2005 Group exhibitions “Sculpture symposium“ at Saigon Hi -Tech Park, Hochiminh City, Vietnam.
  “The second international sculpture symposium“, Angiang, Vietnam.
  2006 Group exhibitions “Recents works 2006“, The Fine Arts Association of Hochiminh City, Vietnam.
  2007 group exhibitions “Ceramics Festival”, Hochiminh City, Vietnam.
  “Recent works 2007“, The Fine Arts Association of Hochiminh City, Vietnam.
  2008 Group exhibition “Earth, Wood and Fire II” bergen international sculpture symposium Alberta, Canada.
  2010 Solo exhibition at the D gallery, Thailande
  Exhibition at HCMC University of Arts ? Vietnam
  May 2011 group exhibition "friends of Tohoku" for fundraising Japan
  Juin 2015 Group exhibition in Korea with the Art tunnel Gallery

  
  Awards :
  1991 Silver Medal Prize. The first Saigon Tourist Competition Viewer’s Favorite Painting Prize (The first Saigon Tourist Competition)
  1992 Silver Medal Prize. The second Saigon Tourist Competition - Press Prize
  1996 THE PHILIP MORRIS GROUP OF COMPANIES, ASEAN ART AWARDS
  2000 THE PHILIPS MORRIS GROUP OF COMPANIES, ASEAN ART AWARDS
  2006 : “Recent works 2006“ First Prize of the HCM city Fine Arts Association.

• Gallery of Nguyen Tan Cuong

NTC145, 1998, 120x120cm

NTC7, 2005, 35x35cm