Dinh Thi Tham Poong is a contemporary Vietnamese artist whose paintings are influenced by her Muong heritage. Her detailed watercolors incorporate surrealistic elements into portrayals of the ...

Sunday marks 48 years since the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War. It is crucial to recognize the importance of Vietnamese voices in shaping our collective understanding of the conflict's ...

April 2025 marks 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War. In Washington, D.C., a new art exhibit offers counter-narratives of what it means to... This year marks the 50th anniversary of the end of ...

Traveling to Vietnam as a 22-year-old tourist had a profound effect on artist Thinh Nguyen. Born in Bao An, Vietnam, Nguyen immigrated to the U.S. at 11, lived in Orange County and didn’t truly learn ...

Exactly fifty years ago, on April 30, 1975, the Vietnam War—a nearly two-decade-long conflict—came to a definitive end with the fall of Saigon. As North Vietnamese forces took control of the South’s ...

The John David Mooney Foundation presents "A Village Before Us," a group exhibition that brings together nine diverse contemporary Vietnamese artists and scholars currently based in Chicago. An ...

Dinh Q. Lê was born in Vietnam. He lives there now, since moving back there in 1997. But he also grew up a refugee in Simi Valley, California after the end of the Vietnam War. His memories of the ...

An ambitious project at the South L.A. gallery the Mistake Room seeks to introduce local audiences to contemporary Vietnamese art. “Where the Sea Remembers” — encompassing an exhibition, program ...

The 1986 policy of Doi Moi or “new change” injected reforms into Vietnam similar to Perestroika in the former Soviet Union. Formerly banned articles on Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris, and Salvador Dali were ...

Vietnamese contemporary art has received a fair amount of press recently and that’s a good thing. However, most Vietnamese artists who are reviewed either studied abroad or have had the opportunity to ...

For many Americans, thoughts of Vietnam arrive as troubled memories: throbbing helicopters, clouds of napalm, body bags, war protests at home and abroad. But, of course, Vietnam has moved on to ...