Nguyen Manh Hung (1976)

Nguyen Manh Hung is known as a prominent talent of the Vietnamese contemporary art, his fame is highly appreciated in domestic and international market. The objects in the paintings of Nguyen Manh Hung are always arranged illogically in the sarcasm viewpoint. In this paintings, the context and human seem to be mismatched: fighting airplanes fulled of building bricks and food; terrain cars run by the old slow turtles; the girls who are young volunteers carrying firearms and plastic bags of food in the exotic space that is half-war and half-peace.
Where are the boundaries? Where is the reality? Where is the fantasy? The questions that Nguyen Manh Hung gives challenging many viewers. The symbolic feature in Nguyen Manh Hung’s paintings become different, spread out and obsessive.
Nguyen Manh Hung was born in 1976 in Hanoi. He has participated in many exhibitions in foreign countries such as Japan, Australia, Sweden, Korea, France, USA and participated in many resident programs in France, America and Korea. His works are in the collection of Francis J. Greenburger, USA, Art Omi, New York, GT Art Holding LLC, NY, Willie Fine Art, Malaysia; in the Alessandro Marena project, Milan – Italy, and many other personal collections in the world.