Biography:
1970: Born in Lai Chau Province, Vietnam
1993: Graduated from Hanoi College of Fine Arts
1993: First Prize for the Minority Artists Exhibition and National Fine Arts
2000: Poong was featured in the May/June 2000 issue of Asian Art News. Member of Vietnamese Association of Fine Arts.
Exhibitions:
2009: Art Palm Beach
2007 – 2009: “Changing Identities”, US Traveling Museum Exhibition
2008: Royal Academy London Watercolrs Show. Cycle of Life, University of California, Berkeley. Art Asia Miami
2007: Cycle of Life, California State Universities, Sacramento and Davis. Seasons of the soul: A Feminine Perspective FromVietnam,
Paintings by Dinh Thi Tham Poong and Nguyen Bach Dan, Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York. Of This and Other Worlds, two-
woman
Exhibition with Vu Thu Hien) in Bankside Gallery, London, UK. Women Painters, Painted Women in the National Fine Arts
Museum of Vietnam.
2006: Natural Instinct, Art Vietnam, Hanoi
2005: Here and Hereafter, two woman exhibition in Wilfrid Museum of Oriental Arts, July 2005
2003: Connecting With Nature: Celebrating Vietnam’s Ethnic Peoples, Kismet Gallery, New York
2002 - 2003: Poong’s works were featured in two traveling exhibitions sponsored by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations: 36
Ideas From Asia, Euope (2002) and 15 Tracks (Japan 2003)
2000: Fish and Stream, Mai Gallery, Hanoi
1999: Women Imaging Women, Culture Center of the Philippines, Manila. Gap Vietnam, Haus der Culturen der Welt, Berlin. Young
sculptors, National art Museum, Hanoi
1998: Hanoi spirit, Bau Gallery, Helsinki
1997: Emigration, Salon Natasha, Hanoi
1995: National Exhibition, Van Ho Exhibition Center, Hanoi. Before the Sun Rise, Giang Vo Art Exhibition Center, Hanoi
1994: Art Exhibition, Art Exhibition Center, Ngo Quyen, Hanoi
1993: Minority Artists, National Art Museum, Hanoi
1990: National Exhibition, Van Ho Exhibition Center, Hanoi. Solo exhibitions in Vietnam, USA. Group exhibition in Vietnam, Finland,
Philippines, Germany, USA, Austria, Japan
Awards and Scholarship:
1993: First Prize for the Minority Artists Exhibition
1995: Third Prize of National Fine Art Association. Promotion Prize by National Fine Art Association