The Artist

1971 Hanoi Vietnam

Tran Quang Minh is a multi-faceted artist exploring many mediums of expression from painting to film, graphic arts, photography, theatre and other conceptual work. The artist has a PhD in Fine Art in art history and is a recognized critic on cinema and television.
Minh had his first solo painting exhibition in 1993 and he continued to show his paintings in Vietnam at many national exhibitions, winning many awards throughout the 90’s.
He has continued to exhibit his paintings and photography locally and internationally but since the early 2000’s Minh turned his attention to cinema and theatre, his teaching and theatrical work.

Supplication 1999

The artist says of this work, “This painting was in the series Season of Hope that I did between 1998 and 2003. I got inspired from a photo in a magazine and imagined a woman from the countryside trying to live a better life. It was not just about the material life but also about an invisible force of liberation.
This is why I portrayed the woman with her face lifted up towards the sky, her eyes wide open, entreating with her outspread palms lifted in a gesture of hope, a humble prayer, amidst a background of glorious sunshine as if leading her out of the darkness behind her. The woman was standing in the Season of Hope!”