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The Meet Market (2020) Painting by Thu Nguyen
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Painting,
Oil
on Wood
- Dimensions Height 24in, Width 30in
- Framing This artwork is not framed
- Categories Paintings under $5,000 Oriental Art
Titled: The Meet Market
Material: oil and 24 kt gold on panel
Dimension: 24 x 30 inches
A scene of Sapa's market with the gathering of Black Hmong Women.
This painting has been exhibited at:
Fresh Art 2019
Marin Society of Artists
San Rafael, CA 94901
November 7 - 30, 2019
This painting is part of my Sapa Series
This body of work inspired by my trips back to Vietnam. I fell in love with this particular location because of its beautiful rice terraces and the Hmong people. Sapa is located in a very mountainous region of North Vietnam which gives it breathtaking scenery and a harsh climate, it sometimes snows there. My mother was born and raised on a farm in this area. Like most people in the area, she grew up very poor and never attended a school or learned to read. Everyone (including children) were expected to work on the farm to support the family. In 1954, when Vietnam split in half, my mother left her family behind at age 16 and traveled south to Saigon. She did not see her family again until Vietnam became united after the war in 1975.
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About me: I was born in Saigon, Vietnam. Being very shy, I spent much of my childhood hiding away in my bedroom painting, instead of playing with other children. My first brush with success was a Best of Show prize at the 1974 children's exhibition in Saigon sponsored by UNICEF. In 1975 Saigon fell and in the resulting confusion, I was separated from my parents. I ended up in a refugee camp near Hong Kong for a year prior to immigrating to the United States as an orphan. After one very snowy and cold winter in Pennsylvania, I went to Los Angeles to stay with some relatives. After getting my art degree, I have since settled down to pursue my art career in Los Angeles, later Seattle, and finally Hawaii with the big excitement being adopting my first daughter from China and my second daughter from Vietnam.
Professional qualifications:
BFA in painting, California State University Long Beach. Two grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Three grants from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation. My work is represented in many public and private collections in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Mexico.
My work has been shown at Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C., Tacoma Art Museum, WA, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO, Artis—Naples, The Baker Museum, Naples, FL, Ackland Museum of Art, UNC, Chapel Hill, NC, Alexandria Museum of Art - Alexandria Louisiana, Yellowstone Art Museum - Billings Montana, Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM.
- Nationality: VIETNAM
- Date of birth : 1958
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- Groups: Contemporary Vietnamese Artists