Tiếng Việt
Đinh Thị Thắm Poong
The Artist
“I simply don’t see the difference between a human and a tree or a fish.”
Dinh Thi Tham Poong’s work is whimsical and sincere. Poong combines images from her own Muong heritage with a surrealist visual landscape imbuing her works – both formally and emotionally – with a quality which can be described as utterly unique and completely global. Her work is steeped in a feeling of genuine wonder—wonder at how one survives in harsh conditions, wonder at the love that surrounds us all, wonder when experiencing the deepest silence. As Poong says, “To my mind everything has two distinct halves. A fish, for example, is half animal, half vegetal. The same is true with humans. Everything contains, holds each other, is intertwined with each other.” The idea of the two-fold nature of life and its simultaneous interconnectedness plays out in Poong’s work.
Utilizing pattern-upon-pattern in a flat palette of color on traditional Do paper, the artist creates a world at once introspective and surrealistic. Depictions of ethnic minorities juxtaposed with flat decorative patterns are flights of imagination fused with normal daily life.
In 2007 Tham Poong’s works were shown in the traveling exhibition Changing Identity: Recent works by women artists from Vietnam, curated by Nora Taylor PhD, which opened at the Kennesaw State University Art Galleries, Kennesaw, Georgia and traveled to several museums in the United States over a period of two years.
Dinh Thi Tham Poong has exhibited widely internationally and her works are in the permanent collections of the Singapore Art Museum, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan, the Rupertinum Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria, the MacLean Collection Mundelein, Illinois, USA, the New York Historical Society NYC, and the Post Vidai Collection, Vietnam/Switzerland among other prestigious international collections.
A Woman’s View: Revisit
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Gold in the Darkness
2022
Art Vietnam Gallery, Hanoi, Vietnam
Destination Point of an Oblique Line
2016
Art Vietnam Gallery, Hanoi, Vietnam
Green Something
2013
The East Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Falling Into Nature
2010
Goethe-Institut, Hanoi, Vietnam
Natural Instinct
2006
Art Vietnam Gallery, Hanoi, Vietnam
Connecting With Nature: Celebrating Vietnam’s Ethnic Peoples
2003
Kismet Gallery, New York, USA
Fish And Stream
2000
Mai Gallery, Hanoi, Vietnam
Emigration
1997
Salon Natasha, Hanoi, Vietnam
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
trầnsfiguration, curated by Viet Le
2023
Slash Art, San Francisco, US
Vietnam in Transition, 1976–Present
2023
Wende Museum, USA
A Woman’s View
2014
Goethe-Institut, Hanoi, Vietnam
Changing Identity: Recent works by women artists from Vietnam
Curated by Nora A. Taylor
2007 – 2009
Kennesaw State University Art Galleries, Kennesaw, Georgia
Trammell & Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art, Dallas, Texas
Stedman Art Gallery, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, 2008
Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, 2009
Five Changing Identities: Vietnamese Women of Today
Nguyen Bach Dan, Ly Tran Quynh Giang, Nguyen Thi Chau Giang, Dinh Y Nhi, Dinh Thi Tham Poong
2007
Fielding Lecht Gallery, Austin, Texas
Il Dragon e la Farfalla: Arte Contemporanea in Vietnam, Complesso del Vittoriano
2006
Rome, Italy
Lotus – Vietnamese Fine Arts
2005
Sinebrychoff Fine Art Museum, Helsinki;
Waino Aaltonen Fine Art Museum, Turku;
Hameenlinna Fine Art Museum, Finland
1 + 1+ 1
2004
Vietnam Fine Arts Museum, Hanoi, Vietnam
15 TRACKS: Contemporary Southeast Asian Art, travelling exhibition 2003 – 2004
2003 – 2004
Singapore Art Museum, The Japan Foundation, Tama Art University Museum and the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, (ASEAN-COCI)
Ideas from Asia, Rupertinum Museum der Moderne Salzburg
2003
Salzburg, Austria
Art After DNA
2003
The Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, USA
The Third Triennial of Asian Contemporary Art
2002
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
Brush to Block: Vietnamese Works on Paper
2001
The Eastern Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
Images Vietnam: Perspectives of Leading Contemporary Artists
2001
The Landon Gallery, New York, USA
Tradition And Change: Contemporary Vietnamese Art
2001
The Landon Gallery, New York, USA
Young Sculptors
2000
National Art Museum, Hanoi, Vietnam
Women Imaging Women
1999
Culture Center of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines
Gap Vietnam, Haus der Culturen der Welt
1999
Berlin, Germany
Spirit of Hanoi
1998
Bau Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
National Exhibition
1995
Van Ho Exhibition Center, Hanoi, Vietnam
Before The Sun Rise
1995
Giang Vo Art Exhibition Center, Hanoi, Vietnam
Art Exhibition
1994
Art Exhibition Center, Ngo Quyen, Hanoi, Vietnam
Ethnic Minority Artists
1993
National Art Museum, Hanoi, Vietnam
National Exhibition
1990
Van Ho Exhibition Center, Hanoi, Vietnam
AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
First Prize for the Ethnic Minority Artists exhibition
1993
Third Prize, National Fine Art Association
1995
Promotions Prize, National Fine Art Association
1995
COLLECTIONS
Singapore Art Museum
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
Rupertinum Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria
MacLean Collection, Mundelein, Illinois, USA
Post Vidai Collection, Vietnam/Switzerland
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The World Bank
The George Washington University School of Business and Public Management
