Profile in Fine Arts by Nguyen Dinh Dang


The only excuse for making an useless thing is that one admires it intensely.
                                                                                   All art is quite useless.

                                                                            Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)



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1958: Born in Hanoi, Vietnam.

1982: MSc
(Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia)

1985: Ph.D. in nuclear theory
(Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia)

1990: Doctor of Physics and Mathematics Sciences
(Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia).

Self-taught painter

from 1987: Member of Fine Arts Association of Vietnam.

from 1990: Member of Fine Arts Association of Hanoi.

1997 - 1999: Member of the International Association of Arts.

from 2005: Member of the Individual Artists' Association (Shutai Bijutsu Kyo Kai) (Japan)


Solo exhibitions:

2010: Fazioli Piano Showroom & Art Gallery , 3-2-15 Kaigan, Minato-ku, Tokyo
March 29 - May 29, 2010
Exhibition poster

2007: H.A.C. Gallery, Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo
October 26 - November 4, 2007

2006: Solo show at Tully's cafe in RIKEN,
RIKEN BSI, Wako city, Saitama, Japan,
March 1 - March 31

2005: "The Joy of Imagination", BiCE Tokyo - Caretta Shiodome,
Shiodome, Tokyo, Japan,
October 9 - December 9.

2004: "Color and Line", Cafe & Gallery Kenya, Yurakucho, Tokyo, Japan,
February 28 - March 13.

2002: Gallery Shiramizu Bijutsu,Ginza, Tokyo, Japan, January 31 - February 9.

2001: Sun Azalea Hall, Wako city, Saitama, Japan, October 5 - 11.

1991: Exhibition Hall of the Fine-Arts Association of Vietnam (16 Ngo Quyen, Hanoi).

1986: Friendship Culture Palace (Hanoi).

1983, 1984, 1985: Dubna (Moscow region, Russia).

1978,1979,1980: Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia).


Group exhibitions:

2025: Sep. 2 - 17: 60th Anniversary Shutai Exhibition
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
(juried show)

2024: Sep. 1 - 16: 59th Shutai Exhibition
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
(juried show)

2023: Sep. 1 - 17: 58th Shutai Exhibition
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
(juried show)

2022: Sep. 1 - 17: 57th Shutai Exhibition
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
(juried show)

2021: Sep. 1 - 16: 56th Shutai Exhibition
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
(juried show)

2019: Sep. 1 - 16: 55th Shutai Exhibition
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
(juried show)

2018: Sep. 1 - 17: 54th Shutai Exhibition
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
(juried show)

2017: Sep. 1 - 16: 53d Shutai Exhibition
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
(juried show)

2016: Sep. 1 - 16: 52nd Shutai Exhibition
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
(juried show)

May 4 - 27: Best Selection 2016
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
(juried show)

2015: Sep. 1 - 16: 51st Shutai Exhibition
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
(juried show)

2014: Sep. 2 - 15: 50th Shutai Exhibition
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
(juried show)

2013: Sep. 1 - 16: 49th Shutai Exhibition
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
(juried show)

Jul. 2 - 7: Sixth Sense
Kushiro Art Museum, Hokkaido

2012: Sep. 1 - 16: 48th Shutai Exhibition
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
(juried show)

2011: Sep. 15 - 21: 47th Shutai Exhibition
Ueno Royal Museum
(juried show)

May. 10 - 25: "Sixth Sense"
Tanaka Isson Art Museum (Amami Great Island)

2010: Sep. 26 - Oct. 1: 46th Shutai Exhibition
Ueno Royal Museum
(juried show)

2009: Sep. 1 - 16: 45th Shutai Exhibition
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
(juried show)

Mar. 7 - 29: The 28th Outstanding Rising Artists Exhibition
(by Sompo Japan Fine Art Foundation)
Sompo Japan Museum of Art
(juried show)

2008: Dec. 8 - 13: "Sixth Sense"
Gallery Seikodo, Ginza, Tokyo

Sep. 1 - 15: 44th Shutai Exhibition
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
(juried show)

Jan. 29 - Feb. 3: 36th Shutai Fine-Art Musashino Exhibition
Saitama Museum of Modern Art

2007: Sep. 1 - 16: 43rd Shutai Exhibition
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
(juried show)

2006: Nov. 7 - 14: 13 Visions from Japan
Exhibition Hall of Vietnam Fine-Arts Association, 16 Ngo Quyen, Hanoi

2006: Sep. 1 - 16: 42nd Shutai Exhibition
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
(juried show)

2005: Sep. 1 - 16: 41st Shutai Exhibition
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
(juried show)

2004: Nov. 21 - 28: "Sixth Sense"
group show by six painters
Gallery Nike, Ginza, Tokyo

Sep. 1 - 16: 40th Shutai Exhibition
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
(juried show)

Jan. 30 - Feb. 9: 39th Showakai Exhibition
Galerie Nichido (Ginza, Tokyo)
(juried show)

2003: Sept. 1 - 15: 39th Shutai Exhibition (Individual Artists' Association),
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum

(juried show)


The show continues at the Fine Art Museum of Aichiprefecture (Nagoya) on Sept. 23 - 28,
and Kyoto City's Fine Art Museum (Kyoto) on Oct. 11 - 19

2002: Oct. 16 - 31: 70th Independent Exhibition,
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
(juried show)

2002: Aug. 21 -30: 27th International Art Exhibition,
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum

1997: Community Center of Wako-city,
Saitama - jointly with Mutsuko K. Sasaki (computer graphic)

1991: All-Hanoi Fine Arts Exhibition in October
organized by the Fine Arts Association of Hanoi (16 Ngo Quyen, Hanoi)
(juried show)

1991: Fine Arts exhibition in June
organized by the Fine Arts Association of Vietnam (16 Ngo Quyen, Hanoi)
(juried show)

1991: "Spring 91" (Fine Arts Association of Hanoi , 19 Hang Buom, Hanoi)
(juried show)

1990: All -Vietnam Fine Arts Exhibition (National Quintenial Fine Arts Exhibition)
(juried show)

1988: Spring Exhibition
organized by Fine Arts Association of Vietnam (16 Ngo Quyen, Hanoi)
(juried show)

1987: International Triennal of Paintings and Graphics
(Fine Arts Museum of Vietnam, Hanoi)
(juried show)

1982,1986,1987: Fine Arts Association of Hanoi (19 Hang Buom, Hanoi)
(juried shows)


Invited lectures:

2023: Lecture on "Drawing and Coloring in Oil Painting"
at Hue National University, 1 Dien Bien Phu, Hue, 21.09.2023

2022: Lecture at lauching event of the book "The art of drawing"
at Ca Chep Publishing House, Nguyen Thi Minh Khai, Saigon, 17.11.2022

2019: Lecture at the signing event of the book "Oil painting techniques"
at The Factory Contemporary Arts Center Saigon, 12.03.2019

Lecture at the town-meeting, Nha Trang City, 07.03.2019

Lecture at the University of Khanh Hoa, Nha Trang City, 06.03.2019

2018: Lecture at the signing event of the book "Oil painting techniques" at Ca Chep Bookstore, Hanoi, 28.08.2018

2017: Lecture at hotel Miramare, Sant'Angelo d'Ischia, 19.05.2017

Lecture at The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre Saigon, 11.03.2017

Lecture at HoChiMinh City Fine-Arts Museum, 11.03.2017

2016: Lecture at Vietnam Fine-Arts University, 23.05.2016

Lecture at Hanoi Creative City, 22.05.2016

2014: Lecture at Tan Tao University, Long An, 29.10.2014

Lecture on "Le Van Mien - Antonello da Messina of Vietnam?"
workshop on new researchs and findings on life and career of Le Van Mien
- the first Vietnamese oil painter,
Institute of Art Research, Hanoi, 28.10.2014

2011: "50 secrets of oil painting technique"
Hanoi College of Fine Arts, 25 November

2009: "Oil painting techniques"
Wako city's Community Center, 5 March

"Techniques of oil painting"
at Hanoi Fine-Art College, 42 Yet Kieu, Hanoi, 8 January

2007: Slide show of paintings
at Hotel Oriente, Vico Equense, Naples, Italy

2005: Slide show of paintings and drawings
at the Cyclotron Institute, Texas A&M University (College Station, Texas, USA, March 17)
and at the Institute of Superior Technique (Lisbon, Portugal, June 11)

2001: Lecture on "Choosing to be An Artist"
at the University of Texas at Dallas (Dallas, Texas, USA, June 8),
University of Notre-Dame
(South Bend, Indiana, USA, June 15),
and Michigan State University
(East Lansing, Michigan, USA, June 18)

1986: Series of lectures on the techniques of oil-painting at the Culture Palace in Hanoi.


Awards:

2024: 7th Vietnam National Book Award:
Encouraging Prize for the 2nd edition of "Oil Painting Technique"

2023: 6th Vietnam National Book Award:
B Prize for "The Art of Dessin"

2016: Best Selection 2016
(by Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum)

2007: Outstanding Rising Artist Award
(by Sompo Japan Fine-Art Foundation - Tokyo)

2003, 2005: Fine-Work Artist
(by Shutai Art Association - Tokyo)

2004: Medal "For the cause of Vietnamese Fine Arts"
(in Vietnamese: "Vi su nghiep my thuat Viet Nam")
by Vietnam Fine-Art Association


Books:

2023: Nguyen Dinh Dang, Techniques of Oil Painting, second edition (Dan Tri & Dong A) (in Vietnamese)

2022: Nguyen Dinh Dang, The Art of Drawing (Dan Tri & Dong A) (in Vietnamese)

2018: Nguyen Dinh Dang, Techniques of Oil Painting (Dan Tri & Dong A) (in Vietnamese)

2003: The Joy of Imagination, catalogue of selected paintings by Nguyen Dinh Dang (in English & Japanese)


From 1994: lives in Japan.

Works by Nguyen Dinh Dang are found in private collections across the world in
Austria, England, France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Sweden, Russia, USA, and Vietnam.