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Profile in Fine Arts by Nguyen Dinh Dang

The only excuse for making an useless thing is that one admires it intensely.
                                                                                   All art is quite useless.
                                                                            Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)


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1958: Born in Hanoi, Vietnam.

1982: MSc
(Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia)

1985: Ph.D. in nuclear theory
(Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia)

1990: Doctor of Physics and Mathematics Sciences
(Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia).

Self-taught painter

from 1987: Member of Fine Arts Association of Vietnam.

from 1990: Member of Fine Arts Association of Hanoi.

1997 - 1999: Member of the International Association of Arts.

from 2005: Member of the Individual Artists' Association (Shutai Bijutsu Kyo Kai) (Japan)

Solo exhibitions:

2010: Fazioli Piano Showroom & Art Gallery , 3-2-15 Kaigan, Minato-ku, Tokyo
March 29 - May 29, 2010
Exhibition poster

2007: H.A.C. Gallery, Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo
October 26 - November 4, 2007

2006: Solo show at Tully's cafe in RIKEN,
RIKEN BSI, Wako city, Saitama, Japan,
March 1 - March 31

2005: "The Joy of Imagination", BiCE Tokyo - Caretta Shiodome,
Shiodome, Tokyo, Japan,
October 9 - December 9.

2004: "Color and Line", Cafe & Gallery Kenya, Yurakucho, Tokyo, Japan,
February 28 - March 13.

2002: Gallery Shiramizu Bijutsu,Ginza, Tokyo, Japan, January 31 - February 9.

2001: Sun Azalea Hall, Wako city, Saitama, Japan, October 5 - 11.

1991: Exhibition Hall of the Fine-Arts Association of Vietnam (16 Ngo Quyen, Hanoi).

1987: Friendship Culture Palace (Hanoi).

1983, 1984, 1985: Dubna (Moscow region, Russia).

1978,1979,1980: Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia).

Group and juried exhibitions:

2012: Sep. 1 - 16: 48th Shutai Exhibition
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
(juried show)

2011: Sep. 15 - 21: 47th Shutai Exhibition
Ueno Royal Museum
(juried show)

May. 10 - 25: "Sixth Sense"
Tanaka Isson Art Museum (Amami Great Island)

2010: Sep. 26 - Oct. 1: 46th Shutai Exhibition
Ueno Royal Museum
(juried show)

2009: Sep. 1 - 16: 45th Shutai Exhibition
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
(juried show)

Mar. 7 - 29: The 28th Outstanding Rising Artists Exhibition
(by Sompo Japan Fine Art Foundation)
Sompo Japan Museum of Art
(juried show)

2008: Dec. 8 - 13: "Sixth Sense"
Gallery Seikodo, Ginza, Tokyo

Sep. 1 - 15: 44th Shutai Exhibition
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
(juried show)

Jan. 29 - Feb. 3: 36th Shutai Fine-Art Musashino Exhibition
Saitama Museum of Modern Art

2007: Sep. 1 - 16: 43rd Shutai Exhibition
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
(juried show)

2006: Nov. 7 - 14: 13 Visions from Japan
Exhibition Hall of Vietnam Fine-Arts Association, 16 Ngo Quyen, Hanoi

2006: Sep. 1 - 16: 42nd Shutai Exhibition
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
(juried show)

2005: Sep. 1 - 16: 41st Shutai Exhibition
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
(juried show)

2004: Nov. 21 - 28: "Sixth Sense"
group show by six painters
Gallery Nike, Ginza, Tokyo

Sep. 1 - 16: 40th Shutai Exhibition
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
(juried show)

Jan. 30 - Feb. 9: 39th Showakai Exhibition
Galerie Nichido (Ginza, Tokyo)
(juried show)

2003: Sept. 1 - 15: 39th Shutai Exhibition (Individual Artists' Association),
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
(juried show)

The show continues at the Fine Art Museum of Aichiprefecture (Nagoya) on Sept. 23 - 28,
and Kyoto City's Fine Art Museum (Kyoto) on Oct. 11 - 19

2002: Oct. 16 - 31: 70th Independent Exhibition,
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
(juried show)

2002: Aug. 21 -30: 27th International Art Exhibition,
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum

1997: Community Center of Wako-city,
Saitama - jointly with Mutsuko K. Sasaki (computer graphic)

1991: All-Hanoi Fine Arts Exhibition in October
organized by the Fine Arts Association of Hanoi (16 Ngo Quyen, Hanoi)
(juried show)

1991: Fine Arts exhibition in June
organized by the Fine Arts Association of Vietnam (16 Ngo Quyen, Hanoi)
(juried show)

1991: "Spring 91" (Fine Arts Association of Hanoi , 19 Hang Buom, Hanoi)
(juried show)

1990: All -Vietnam Fine Arts Exhibition (National Quintenial Fine Arts Exhibition)
(juried show)

1988: Spring Exhibition
organized by Fine Arts Association of Vietnam (16 Ngo Quyen, Hanoi)
(juried show)

1987: International Triennal of Paintings and Graphics
(Fine Arts Museum of Vietnam, Hanoi)
(juried show)

1982,1986,1987: Fine Arts Association of Hanoi (19 Hang Buom, Hanoi)
(juried shows)

Invited lectures:

2011: "50 secrets of oil painting technique"
Hanoi College of Fine Arts, 25 November

2009: "Oil painting techniques"
Wako city's Community Center, 5 March

"Techniques of oil painting"
at Hanoi Fine-Art College, 42 Yet Kieu, Hanoi, 8 January

2007: Slide show of paintings
at Hotel Oriente, Vico Equense, Naples, Italy

2005: Slide show of paintings and drawings
at the Cyclotron Institute, Texas A&M University (College Station, Texas, USA, March 17)
and at the Institute of Superior Technique (Lisbon, Portugal, June 11)

2001: Lecture on "Choosing to be An Artist"
at the University of Texas at Dallas (Dallas, Texas, USA, June 8),
University of Notre-Dame
(South Bend, Indiana, USA, June 15),
and Michigan State University
(East Lansing, Michigan, USA, June 18)

1986: Series of lectures on the techniques of oil-painting at the Culture Palace in Hanoi.

Awards:

2007: Outstanding Rising Artist Award
(by Sompo Japan Fine-Art Foundation - Tokyo)

2003, 2005: Fine-Work Artist
(by Shutai Art Association - Tokyo)

2004: Medal "For the cause of Vietnamese Fine Arts"
(in Vietnamese: "Vi su nghiep my thuat Viet Nam")
by Vietnam Fine-Art Association

From 1994: lives in Japan.

Works by Nguyen Dinh Dang are also in private collections in
Austria, England, France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Sweden, Russia and Vietnam.