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“I simply don’t see the difference between a human and a tree or a fish.”

Dinh Thi Tham Poong

1970

Born in Lai Chau, Vietnam. An ethnic minority artist whose father is Muong and mother is White Thai.

1993

Graduated from the Vietnam Fine Arts University, Hanoi, Vietnam Member of the Vietnam Fine Arts Association

Dinh Thi Tham PoongAboutArtworksWearable ArtJournalPublicationsVNabout“I simply don’t see the difference between a human and a tree or a fish.”Dinh Thi Tham Poong1970Born in Lai Chau, Vietnam. An ethnic minority artist whose father is Muong and mother is White Thai.1993Graduated from the Vietnam Fine Arts University, Hanoi, Vietnam Member of the Vietnam Fine Arts AssociationDinh Thi Tham Poong’s work is whimsical and sincere. Her work is steeped in a feeling ofgenuine wonder. Wonder at how one survives in harsh conditions, wonder at the love thatsurrounds us all, wonder when experiencing the deepest silence. As Poong says, “To my mind everything has two distinct halves. A fish, for example, is half animal, half vegetal. The same is true with humans. Everything contains, holds each other, is intertwined with each other.” It is this idea of the two-fold nature of life and its simultaneous interconnectedness which plays itself out in Poong’s work. Poong combines images from her own Muong heritage with a surrealist visual landscape imbuing her works –both formally and emotionally – with a quality which can be described as utterly unique and completely global. Pure flights of the imagination fuse with concrete details from daily life creating images that work and play in the ethereal landscape of the mind.

Typically, her works reflect a structured convergence of her life in nature with her city life.Utilizing pattern upon pattern in a flat palette of color on traditional Do paper, the artist creates a world at once introspective and surrealistic. Depictions of ethnic minorities juxtaposed with flat decorative pattern are flights of imagination fused with normal daily life.

In 2007 Tham Poong’s works were shown in the traveling exhibition “Changing Identity: Recent works by women artists from Vietnam”, which opened at the Kennesaw State University Art Galleries, Kennesaw, Georgia and traveled to several museums in the United States; Trammell & Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art, Dallas, Texas, Stedman Art Gallery, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City 2008, Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota 2009.

Dinh Thi Tham Poong has exhibited widely internationally and her works are in the permanent collections of the Singapore Art Museum, Fukuoka Asean Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan, the Rupertinum Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria, the MacLean Collection Mundelein, Illinois, USA, the New York Historical Society NYC, and the Post Vidai Collection, Vietnam/Switzerland among others.

solo exhibitions (8)

2022

Gold in the Darkness
Art Vietnam Gallery, Hanoi, Vietnam

2016

Destination Point of an Oblique Lines
Art Vietnam Gallery, Hanoi, Vietnam

2013

Green Something
The East Gallery, Toronto, Canada

2010

Falling Into Nature
Goethe-Institut, Hanoi, Vietnam

2006

Natural Instinct
Art Vietnam Gallery, Hanoi, Vietnam

2003

Connecting With Nature: Celebrating Vietnam’s Ethnic Peoples
Kismet Gallery, New York, USA

1997

Fish And Stream
Mai Gallery, Hanoi, Vietnam

2022

Emigration
Salon Natasha, Hanoi, Vietnam

group exhibitions (29)

2023

Trần’s figuration
Curated by Viet Le, Slash Art, San Francisco, USA

2023

Vietnam in Transition, 1976-Present
Wende Art Museum, USA

2019

Space in Between – Three artists three continents
Group exhibition, Hanoi, Vietnam

The Female Figure, Picturing Women in the Center
Group exhibition at the United Nation, Hanoi, Vietnam

2017

The Vietnam War: 1945-1975
New York Historical Society, New York, USA

2016

Art in Bloom
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA

2014

A Woman’s View
Goethe Institut Hanoi, Vietnam

2007

Five Changing Identities: Vietnamese Women of Today
Nguyen Bach Dan, Ly Tran Quynh Giang, Nguyen Thi Chau Giang, Dinh Y Nhi, Dinh Thi Tham Poong Fielding Lecht Gallery, Austin, Texasm

Changing Identity: Recent works by women artists from Vietnam
Kennesaw State University Art Galleries, Kennesaw, Georgia, Trammell &
Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art, Dallas, Texas, Stedman Art Gallery,
Rutgers University, Camden, NJ, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City 2008 , Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota 2009

2006

Il Dragon e la Farfalla, Arte Contemporanea in Vietnam
Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, Italy

2005

Triennial of Asian Contemporary Art
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan

2004

1 + 1+ 1 Vietnam
Fine Arts Museum, Hanoi, Vietnam

15 TRACKS : Contemporary Southeast Asian Art
Traveling exhibition 2003-2004, Singapore Art Museum, The Japan Foundation, Tama Art University Museum and the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, (ASEAN-COCI)

2003

Ideas from Asia
Rupertinum Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria.

Art After DNA
The Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, USA

2003

Brush to Block: Vietnamese Works on Paper
The Eastern Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA

Images Vietnam: Perspectives of Leading Contemporary Artists
The Landon Gallery, New York, USA

Tradition And Change: Contemporary Vietnamese Art
The Landon Gallery, New York, USA

2000

Young Sculptors
National Art Museum, Hanoi, Vietnam

1999

Women Imaging Women
Culture Center of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines

Gap Vietnam
Haus der Culturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany

1998

Spirit of Hanoi
Bau Gallery, Helsinki, Finland

1995

National Exhibition
Van Ho Exhibition Center, Hanoi, Vietnam

Before The Sun Rise
Giang Vo Art Exhibition Center, Hanoi, Vietnam

1994

Art Exhibition
Art Exhibition Center, Ngo Quyen, Hanoi, Vietnam

1993

Minority Artists
National Art Museum, Hanoi, Vietnam