List of Vietnamese artists explained

This is a list of artists who were born in the Vietnam or whose artworks are closely associated with that country.

Artists are listed by field of study and then by family name in alphabetical order (review Vietnamese naming customs as the family name will display in the first name field, with exceptions including people of the diaspora), and they may be listed more than once on the list if they work in many fields of study.

Art collectives

Architects

Hoàng Thúc Hào (born 1970), architect and vice president of the Vietnam Association of Architects
Ngô Viết Thụ (1927–2000), architect and urbanist
Nguyễn An (1381–1453), Vietnamese-born Chinese architect of the Ming dynasty and hydraulics specialist between the first and fifth decades of the 15th century
Võ Trọng Nghĩa (born 1976), architect

Painters

Dao Droste (born 1952), Vietnamese-born German sculptor, painter, and installation artist
Đỗ Quang Em (1942–2021), painter
Hoàng Hồng Cẩm (1959–2011), painter
Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba (born 1968), Japanese-Vietnamese video artist and drawer
Nguyen Huy An (born 1982), painter, sculptor, installation artist, performance artist
Nguyen Manh Hung (born 1976), painter, sculptor, and installation artist
Bernadette Phan (born 1966), painter and drawer
Phạm Lực (born 1943), painter
Trần Quang Hiếu (1938–1985), sketch and panel artist
Trần Trọng Vũ (born 1964), painter
Trương Tân (born 1963), painter
Tú Duyên (1915–2012), folk art painter, and printmaker

Lacquer painters

Bui Huu Hung (born 1957), painter, known for lacquer painting
Công Quốc Hà (born 1955), painter, known for lacquer painting
Nguyẽ̂n Lam (born 1944), painter, known for lacquer painting
Phan Kế An (1923–2018), painter and renowned lacquer artist
Truong Cong Tung (born 1986), painter, known for lacquer painting

Silk painters

Trần Văn Thọ (1917–2004), silk painter and watercolorist
Vũ Giáng Hương (1930–2011), painter, known for silk paintings

Photographers

Đoàn Công Tính (born 1943), photographer for the People's Army of Vietnam
Maika Elan (born 1986), photographer
Dinh Q. Lê (born 1968), Vietnamese-born American photographer and multimedia artist
Trần Tuấn Việt (born 1983), photographer
Nick Ut (born 1951), Vietnamese-born American photojournalist

Sculptors

Dao Droste (born 1952), Vietnamese-born German sculptor, painter, and installation artist
Điềm Phùng Thị (1920–2002), modernist sculptor
Lê Hiền Minh (born 1979), Dó paper installations, sculptor
Nguyen Huy An (born 1982), painter, sculptor, installation artist, performance artist
Nguyen Phuong Linh (born 1985), conceptual artist, sculptor, installation artist, and video artist
Nguyễn Thu Thủy (born 1971), mosaicist, and ceramist
Thu Van Tran (born 1979), Vietnamese-born French sculptor and installation artist