Duong Dinh Sang

Born in 1950 in an artist family, Duong Dinh Sang begins the painting at a very young age. He Died of an heart attack on the 18 november 2005.

His paintings were showed for the first time in 1971 in Hue, Vietnam. An other exhibition in duet with Dr Dinh Cuong followed in 1974. The year after, he became a teacher in Fine Arts College of Hue. In addition of being a teacher, he participated to several activities for the promotion of vietnamese Art. After 1975, being a member of the Fine Arts Association of Hue, he brang several contributions to the Art of Hue and participated to many national and international exhibitions:

– two national exhibition in 1976 and 1980;
– a group exbihition with Hoang Dang Nhuan, Buu in Hue (1982);
– a solo exhibition in a Gallery in Dong Khoi Street, HCMC;
– exhibition in Singapur (1992) and Paris, France (1993);
– in 1994, exhibition with the artist Thyge Thomasen in Ho Chi Minh-Ville;
– From 1994 to 1998, mondial exhibition in london (UK), exhibition with Thyge Thomasen in Hong Kong, exhibiton in the gallery Motmatre, Virginia – USA;

His paintings were part of many private collection in Vietnam and abroad. During the exhibition in Virginia (USA), the artist Dinh Cuong comment the Sang’s painting :  » It has a silver color of the typical smog in Hue, caracterized by a world of fantasy et metaphores such as the link between space and matter. His painting is full of hieroglyphic symbols, totems. I realized that in each of his caracter, there are happiness and suffering, in a temple ambience. Sang’s painting is pure, intense, poetic and honnest.

• Career

  
  1950 Born in Hue
  1974 Graduated from the Fine Art Academy of Hue
  Guest lecturer at Hue College of Fine Arts.
  2005 Passed away in Hue
  
  1970 Exhibition in Saigon
  1971 “Young Artists Group” Exhibition, Vietnamese-American Association, Hue
  1972 Exhibition in Hue
  1973 Exhibition at the Vietnamese – American Association of Hue
  1974 Two-Men-Show (with Dinh Cuong), Vietnamese-American Association, Hue.
  1976 & 1980 : Participated in 2 National Fine Arts Exhibitions.
  1982 Three-Men-Show (with Hoang Dang Nhuan, Buu Chi), Cultural House Hue.
  1991 Exhibition with Hoang Dang Nhuan at the Cultural House of Hue
  1992 Participated in,“Vietnamese Contemporary Painting Exhibition” , Notice Gallery, Singapore.
            Participated in “Abstract Painting Exhibition” , Hong Hac Gallery, HCM City.
            Solo Exhibition, Dong Khoi Gallery, HCM City.
  1993 Solo Exhibition, Bouvill Hall Unesco, Paris, France.
            Exhibition of Lacquer paintings, Ho Chi Minh City Fine Art Museum
  1994 Two-Artists-Exhibition (with Thyge Thomasen) at Association of the Press, HCM City.
  1995 Exhibition, Lower Gulbenkian Gallery, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, London, England.
            Group Exhibition (with Do Hoang Tuong, Thanh Chuong, Bao Toan), Denmark.
            Two-Artists-Exhibition (with Thyge Thomasen), Visual Arts Center, HongKong.
  1997 Three-Artists-Exhibition, La Ronda-Westwing, Furama Hotel, HongKong.
  1998 Solo Exhibition, Motmatre Gallery, Virginia, USA.
  1999 Solo Exhibition, Tu Do Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City.
  2000 Spring Art Exhibition" at CoDo Gallery-Hanoi-VN
  2002 The horse  Exhibition" at CODO GALLERRY Hanoi, Vietnam
  October 2012 Solo exhibition in Hue city



• Gallery of Duong Dinh Sang

  

  DDS51, 1994, 75x105cm