Nguyễn Văn Cường was born on 2 February 1972 in the north eastern coastal province of Thái Bình, 110 km southeast of Hanoi, in the heart of the Red River Delta. He graduated from Hanoi Fine Art University in 1996 after five years of study, adept at working with the full range of Vietnamese art materials, including lacquer, silk and local hand-made giấy dó paper. Cường has also experimented with performance and installation art and is an occasional collaborator with well-known Hanoi performance artist Đào Anh Khánh.
He is currently a lecturer at the National College of Music and Painting. Cuong has had over 15 solo and group exhibitions since 1997 and has won numerous honors and awards including first prize in 1996 (Propaganda Paintings) and in 2011 (Self Portraiture). Nguyen Van Cuong’s primary medium is Oil on Canvas and he paints in a number of styles.
Nguyen van Cuong 81 x 61
Farmhouse
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