Hung Khuynh
HUNG KHUYNH
Artist’s name is Hung Khuynh and Family name is Pham Manh Hung.
Born: 1954 in Hai Hau- Nam Dinh, a province located in southward of Hanoi, Vietnam.
Eduaction: Hung Khuynh graduated from Hanoi Fine Art College in Hanoi Vietnam, Course 1979-1984.
His major is lacquer painting and special in Fine art composition material of lacquer.
Being a professional artist, having works displayed at Vietnamese Art Museum and plenty artworks were collected by national collectors as well as foreign collectors in England, Australia, Indonesia, France, America, Canada, German, Hongkong, Singapore, Korea, Belgum and Italia…
Art Awards
- Capital Art Award in 1985.
- Vietnamese Art Assocition Award in 1994.
- Silver medal in The National Art Exhibition (the one that awarded no gold medal) in 1995.
- 4Asean Art Award in 2000.
Artistic activities
1. National Art Exhibition in 1980,1985,1990,1995
2. Asian Pacific Art Exhibition in Moscow, in 1987
3. Periodical Drawing Exhibition in Bulgaria in 1987, 1988, 1989
4. Annual Capital Art Exhibiton in 1987,1989, 1991, 2000
5. One- man Exhibition in Hue in 1992
6. International Exhibition in Japan in 1992
7. One- man Exhibition in Ho Chi Minh City in 1993
8. One- man Exhibition in Ha Noi Art Introduction and Exchange Centre in 1994
9. One- man Exhibition on 16 Ngo Quyen- Ha Noi in 1995
10. Vietnamese oil painting Exhibition in Beijing, China in 2000
11. Lacquer Exhibition in Tham Quyen- Beijing- China in 2001
12. Asean Painting Exhibition in Ha Noi in 1997, 1998, 2000
13. “Dialogue between Civilizations” Exhibition UN’s Headquarter in Geneve- Switzerland in 2001
14. International Art Exhibition in Bali- Indonesia
15. Vietnamese Lacquer Exhibition in Seoul- Korea in 2002
Native land melody in Hung Khuynh’s paintings
Since 1980, Hung Khuynh (Pham Manh Hung) has increasingly participated in domestic and international Exhibitions. Many his paintings are being kept in Vietnamese Fine Art Museum and are found in several private collections in Viet nam and abroad. He won the awards of Vietnamese Fine Art Association in 1994 and of National Fine Art Exhibition in 1995( with a silver medal). He has paintings displayed at his own exhibitions in Hue (1992), in Ho Chi Minh City (1993) and in Ha noi(1994,1996).
With his fervor, passion and sense of renovation, high determination as well, he focus on his imagine and emotion while inheriting traditional art in order to produce works which are full of folk motifs and designs.
The architecture of House common, pagoda, and image of dragon , lotus flower , joss-stick bowl, incense- smoke, folk dances, village festivities… are recounted in his paintings, lead people to their origin. This forms Hung Khuynh’s style.
By using silk material, oil painting, rhamnoneuron paper, drawing ink and lacquer with cheerful colors, Hung Khuynh has expressed the simplicity, honesty as well as lively rhythm of village festivities with traditional characteristics
The images, traits displayed in his paintings are not completely those which have appeared in other works , they make us looking back on a good melody in symphony imitated many time in which new impressions and emotions are always made
His paintings show not only different colors, traits or layouts but a soul, and a deep philosophic spirit.
