Trinh Tuan was born in the year of the buffalo, 1961 in Hanoi. He graduated from the Hanoi Industrial Fine Arts College in 1985, received a M.A. at Hanoi Fine Arts Institute in 2000 and is currently a Professor at Hanoi Industrial Fine Arts College. He is also a member of Vietnam Fine Arts Association. However, his works became known to Hanoi`s artistic life even before Doi Moi, which marked Vietnam`s open door policy.
Tuan uses the ancient and time-consuming technique lacquer painting as a medium to express inner feelings and emotions. Turning his eyes towards the hidden corner of every human`s destiny, Tuan drowns his evening cares in the last drop of wine at the bottom of his cup and grieves at the quick withering of lotus flowers when summer is still verdant with vegetation. The same holds true with the affairs of men and women. They love each other yet sulk easily, while grass and plants innocently touch in dark, pale blue spaces that favour the feverish physical contact of love.
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Tuan has exhibited several times abroad, including Japan (1996, 2000, 2002), China (1996), Germany (1997), Singapore (1997, 2000, 2001), Denmark (1998, 1999, 2000), France (1998), Argentina (1999), Laos (1999), Australia (1999), USA (1999), Thailand (1999, 2000, 2001, 2003), Israel (2000), Netherlands (2000, 2001), Taiwan (2000), and Hong Kong (2002). His paintings are found, among others, in the collections of HRH the Crown Prince of Norway and at the National Art Gallery of Malaysia. In February 2004, Trinh Tuan took part in the international show Identities vs Globalization? at the Chiang Mai Art Museum, and the exhibition travels to the National Gallery of Thailand (May) and Dahlem Museum in Berlin (October). Photographs do not express fully the depth of Trinh Tuan paintings as real lacquer paintings have a variety of colours and a luster which cannot be reflected fully.
With 12 paintings, Trinh Tuan is one of three artist featuring more prominently during the opening month of La Luna Gallery. (Partly based on art historian Luang Xuan Doans writing about Trinh Tuan in his book about the painter, available at La Luna Gallery and Thavibu Gallery)
Trinh Tuan was born in the year of the buffalo, 1961 in Hanoi. He graduated from the Hanoi Industrial Fine Arts College in 1985, received a M.A. at Hanoi Fine Arts Institute in 2000 and is currently a Professor at Hanoi Industrial Fine Arts College. He is also a member of Vietnam Fine Arts Association. However, his works became known to Hanoi`s artistic life even before Doi Moi, which marked Vietnam`s open door policy. 
