Công Quốc Hà Explained

Công Quốc Hà
Birth Name:Công Quốc Hà
Birth Date:1955 10, df=yes
Birth Place:Hanoi, Vietnam
Nationality:Vietnamese
Spouse:Pham Le Hang
Known For:Painting

Công Quốc Hà (born 29 October 1955) is an acclaimed Vietnamese artist and lacquer painter. He was born in Hanoi in 1955 and graduated from the Hanoi Industrial Fine Arts College.[1] [2]

Cong Quoc Ha is one of the most active and best known Vietnamese lacquer painters. He "is well known for his elegant female figures.[3] He belongs to a group of artists who revived the art of traditional Vietnamese lacquer painting and gave it a modern face around the world.[4] He is one of five children of Cong Ton Toan and Dinh Thi Lieu, a well-accomplished family in Hanoi. Among his siblings is his younger sister Cong Kim Hoa, who is an acclaimed artist herself.[5]

Education and work

Since graduating from the Hanoi Industrial Fine Arts University, his works are shown in hundreds of exhibitions worldwide, including international fairs such as the Documenta in Germany, the Euro D'Art in Geneva as well as in international exhibitions from Buenos Aires to New York, Paris, Singapore, Tokyo and Melbourne. He also received numerous awards for his works worldwide. He was also responsible for the first nude exhibition in Vietnam, in 1992, where he had 20 paintings at the show.[6]

Between 1995 and 2000 he served as Deputy Secretary General of Hanoi Fine Arts Association, and he was Chairman of the Young Painter Club, Vietnam Fine Art Association between 1995 and 1999. He heads the Hanoi branch of the Vietnam Fine Arts Association between 2010 and 2014.

In 2005,Cong Quoc Ha founded the HANOI ART HOUSE in Kisa, Sweden together with his daughter Cong Nu Hoang Anh. The Art House shows collections and exhibitions of art and cultural works, especially about the Vietnamese culture. Since 2012, Cong Quoc Ha works and lives together with his wife and son in Sweden. Cong Quoc Ha is the Art Director of the HANOI ART HOUSE.

Private life

In 1980, Cong Quoc Ha married the artist Pham Le Hang (born 1960), the couple has three children:

Awards

References

  1. Web site: Hanoi Art Gallery - Vitae Cong Quoc Ha . 2011-03-27 . 2016-03-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304211716/http://www.hanoi-artgallery.com/?f=Content&p=2&id=18 . live .
  2. Web site: Công Quốc Hà hướng về sự sống đầy sinh lực . 2012-09-05 . 2011-09-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110924221628/http://vietbao.vn/Van-hoa/Cong-Quoc-Ha-huong-ve-su-song-day-sinh-luc/10888506/185/ . live .
  3. http://www.vietnamartist.com/Articles/Articles17.aspx HANOI'S LACQUER by Ian Findlay, Asian Art News Jan/Feb 2004
  4. Web site: Arts Of Asia, March/April 2002, Editorial . 2011-04-16 . 2011-04-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110412044104/http://www.artsofasianet.com/editorial/2002/mar_apr.php . live .
  5. Shireen Naziree: Cong Kim Hoa - Lacquer Paintings. Thailand, 2006 with 50 color plates. Web site: Cong Kim Hoa: Lacquer Paintings (Select Books: The Asian Book Specialist - Bookseller, Publisher and Distributor) . 2015-09-27 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150928085200/http://www.selectbooks.com.sg/getTitle.aspx?SBNum=040389 . 2015-09-28 .
  6. Web site: Article by Trinh Tu . 2011-10-07 . 2012-04-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120425051408/http://congquocha.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/picture-009.jpg . live .
  7. Web site: Thavibu Art Gallery - Vitae Cong Kim Hoa . 2011-03-27 . 2011-06-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110623040341/http://www.thavibu.com/articles/ATC32.htm . live .

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