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| Dinh Thi Tham Poong |
Tham Poong traces her bloodline to the Thai and the Hmong, two among the many Dan Toc
groups. Highly sought by collectors, her works pay homage to the harmony between humans (in
this case, Thai people) and nature. Tham Poong recognizes the cyclical evolution of life:
vegetations, animals, humans, and man-made environments generate from one another then
degenerate into nature. In her paintings, elements of nature and man-built environment are
intertwined and often imprinted on human shapes. It is this man-nature fusion that the artist’s
eyes capture and her paintings convey.
Tham Poong is often caught meditating on the relationship of man and nature in her work.
Humans evolve, but do not transcend nature. Rather, we are one of nature’s constituents, just
as the animals and plants around us. And we belong to the same family tree with the other
constituents.
Tham Poong often superimposes elements of the natural and man-made environment on human
shapes. Here, the human figures blend with a foliage motif, while their faces reflect the white
clouds and blue sky. The trees share the same space with the humans. The different elements
are arranged in a rather high density, which creates a feeling of intimacy. It is as if the artist tries
to convince us that we are one with nature.
Tham Poong uses colors that are indigenous to the northern highlands, and even though the
painting has a certain surreal quality, the work is unmistakably Vietnamese.
Living Fossils is painted with gouache on “giay gio” (bark paper), a Vietnamese material.
Born in 1970 Lai Chau, Vietnam
Education: Hanoi Fine art College, 1988-1993
Member of Vietnam Fine Art Association
Awards: 1993 1st prize, Minority Artist from Vietnam Ministry of Cultture
1995 3rd Prize, National Fine art association
Promotion prize by National art exhibition
Selected Exhibitions:
Solo and Dual:
1997 Emigration, Salon Natasha, Hanoi
2000 Fish and stream, Mai gallery, Hanoi
2003 Connecting with Nature: Celebrating Vietnam’s Ethnic peoples, Kismet
gallery, New York, USA
Group Exhibitions:
1990 National Exhibition, Van Ho exhibition center, Hanoi
1993 Minority Artist, National Art Museum, Hanoi
1994 Spring show, Art exhibition center, Hanoi
1995 National exhibition, Van Ho Exhibition Center, Hanoi
1996 Before The Sun Rise, Giang Vo Art Exhibition Center, Hanoi
1998 Hanoi Spirit, Bau Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
1999 Women imaging Women, Culture Center of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines
1999 Gap Vietnam, Haus der culturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
2000 Young Sculptor, National Art Museum, Hanoi.
2001 Images Vietnam: Perspective of Leading Contemporary Artist,
The Landon Gallery, NY, USA
2001 Tradition and Change: Contemporary Vietnamese Art, The Landon
Gallery, NY, USA
2002 Brush to Block: Vietnamese Works on Paper, The Eastern gallery,
Chicago, USA
2002-2003 36 IDEAS from Asia: Contemporary Southeast Asian Art, a
travelling exhibition organised by the Singapore Art museum
with cooperation from Stitung fur Kunst and Kulter e.V . Bonn,
a project of the Association of Southeast Asian Nation, Commitee
on culture and information, Exhibition in the museum Kuppersmuhle
Sammlung Grothe. Duisberg, Salzburg, Austria; National Museum
of Abruzzo, L’Aquilq, Italy
Art After DNA, The Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, USA.
2003 15 Tracks : Contemporary Southeast Asian Art. Fukuoka, Japan
2004 1+1+1 Vietnam National Art museum, Hanoi.
groups. Highly sought by collectors, her works pay homage to the harmony between humans (in
this case, Thai people) and nature. Tham Poong recognizes the cyclical evolution of life:
vegetations, animals, humans, and man-made environments generate from one another then
degenerate into nature. In her paintings, elements of nature and man-built environment are
intertwined and often imprinted on human shapes. It is this man-nature fusion that the artist’s
eyes capture and her paintings convey.
Tham Poong is often caught meditating on the relationship of man and nature in her work.
Humans evolve, but do not transcend nature. Rather, we are one of nature’s constituents, just
as the animals and plants around us. And we belong to the same family tree with the other
constituents.
Tham Poong often superimposes elements of the natural and man-made environment on human
shapes. Here, the human figures blend with a foliage motif, while their faces reflect the white
clouds and blue sky. The trees share the same space with the humans. The different elements
are arranged in a rather high density, which creates a feeling of intimacy. It is as if the artist tries
to convince us that we are one with nature.
Tham Poong uses colors that are indigenous to the northern highlands, and even though the
painting has a certain surreal quality, the work is unmistakably Vietnamese.
Living Fossils is painted with gouache on “giay gio” (bark paper), a Vietnamese material.
Born in 1970 Lai Chau, Vietnam
Education: Hanoi Fine art College, 1988-1993
Member of Vietnam Fine Art Association
Awards: 1993 1st prize, Minority Artist from Vietnam Ministry of Cultture
1995 3rd Prize, National Fine art association
Promotion prize by National art exhibition
Selected Exhibitions:
Solo and Dual:
1997 Emigration, Salon Natasha, Hanoi
2000 Fish and stream, Mai gallery, Hanoi
2003 Connecting with Nature: Celebrating Vietnam’s Ethnic peoples, Kismet
gallery, New York, USA
Group Exhibitions:
1990 National Exhibition, Van Ho exhibition center, Hanoi
1993 Minority Artist, National Art Museum, Hanoi
1994 Spring show, Art exhibition center, Hanoi
1995 National exhibition, Van Ho Exhibition Center, Hanoi
1996 Before The Sun Rise, Giang Vo Art Exhibition Center, Hanoi
1998 Hanoi Spirit, Bau Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
1999 Women imaging Women, Culture Center of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines
1999 Gap Vietnam, Haus der culturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
2000 Young Sculptor, National Art Museum, Hanoi.
2001 Images Vietnam: Perspective of Leading Contemporary Artist,
The Landon Gallery, NY, USA
2001 Tradition and Change: Contemporary Vietnamese Art, The Landon
Gallery, NY, USA
2002 Brush to Block: Vietnamese Works on Paper, The Eastern gallery,
Chicago, USA
2002-2003 36 IDEAS from Asia: Contemporary Southeast Asian Art, a
travelling exhibition organised by the Singapore Art museum
with cooperation from Stitung fur Kunst and Kulter e.V . Bonn,
a project of the Association of Southeast Asian Nation, Commitee
on culture and information, Exhibition in the museum Kuppersmuhle
Sammlung Grothe. Duisberg, Salzburg, Austria; National Museum
of Abruzzo, L’Aquilq, Italy
Art After DNA, The Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, USA.
2003 15 Tracks : Contemporary Southeast Asian Art. Fukuoka, Japan
2004 1+1+1 Vietnam National Art museum, Hanoi.
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Living Fossil 2003
gouache on bark paper
24 x 32
gouache on bark paper
24 x 32
Window to Inside 2002
gouache on bark paper
47 x 31
gouache on bark paper
47 x 31