Đỗ Hoàng Tường

Đỗ Hoàng Tường (b. 1960, Quang Nam. Lives and works in Ho Chi Minh City) moved to Saigon in 1970, graduated from the Ho Chi Minh City University of Fine Arts in 1984, and belongs to an influential generation of abstract painters in the South of Vietnam in the 1990s, namely the Group of 10. They are an influential generation of abstract painters in the South of Vietnam who quietly endured, and indelibly affected, by the tumultuous period of conflict between North and South Vietnam (popularly referred to as the Vietnam War). 

Since 2000, he has returned to figurative painting, showing the desire for the founding of a new artistic path: to repair the violent loss and destruction of our human condition. Tường’s signature figures are often stretched or contorted in torment, their legs in sexualized pose with bodies in disproportion, as if to provoke a sense of danger and anger. For him, making art helps one depart from the trauma of history.

Select notable exhibitions include RE:FORM, Galerie Frank Elbaz x Galerie Bao (2026), Paris, France; S.E.A Focus, Gillman Barracks, Singapore, 2019; Art Expo Malaysia Plus, MATRADE Exhibition and Convention Centre (MECC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2018; Ties of History: Art in Southeast Asia, the Metropolitan Museum of Manila, the Yuchengco Museum, and the University of the Philippines Vargas Museum, Manila, Philippines, 2018; ART STAGE Singapore, Marina Bay Sands Expo & Convention Centre, Singapore, 2018; Personal Structures, European Cultural Center and GAA Foundation, Venice, Italy, 2017; Open Door – Fine Arts during the 30 years after Doi Moi, Vietnam Fine Art Museum, Hanoi, Vietnam, 2016; Eagles Fly, Sheep Flock: Biographical Imprints, Artistic Practices in Southeast Asia, Singapore, 2015.