Biography

Being passionate about fine art since childhood, especially lacquer-on-wood painting, Doan Thuy Hanh had to channel her passion to oil-on-canvas, and watercolor on paper, because, in the old days, she did not have enough material to satisfy her passion for lacquer paintings. Doan Thuy Hanh never gave up her hopes until the day she graduated from Hanoi Fine Arts University at 24 years old. Since then, she made her dream in art come true and her art career started from there.

Not many female artists chose lacquer as the main material because it is a physically demanding medium. Despite this, Doan Thuy Hanh wanted to explore this medium as her passion and to make a unique style, different from other artists.

Doan Thuy Hanh came to her subject in fine art because of her love for nature and children. The daily life of children in her works is vibrant, cheerful, and innocent.

Doan Thuy Hanh's paintings are a story of her life with her impressing:

“I think I am a very lucky woman with simply a happy family and one daughter and one boy. Every day, I pick up my daughters at school and unforgettable scenes come to my heart. The natural life of the children, with the pink cheeks, the angel eyes, and the “young bird–lips”, all, brought me non-stop thinking and I decided to channel this through my art.”

Numerous of Thuy Hanh's works are in private collections all over the world.

1974: Born in Hanoi

1995: Graduated from Hanoi University of Industrial Fine Arts

Member of the Women Authors Club of the Vietnam Fine Arts Association.

Specialist in lacquer paintings

Exhibitions

2023: Exhibition "Strange Duet - Matching Double Rhythms" organized by Ben Thanh Art Gallery at 159 Dong Khoi.

2022: Exhibition "Hanoi" organized by the French Embassy and Enfance partenariat Vietnam at the French Embassy, ​​Hanoi!

Exhibition "Urushi Forms and Hope" - Lacquer Art in Southeast Asia, at the Tokyo School of Art Museum.

2021: Exhibition "Specialized Lacquer Painting" organized by Vietnam Fine Arts Association at 16 Ngo Quyen, Hanoi.

2020: Exhibition "100 Artworks of 100 Vietnam Lacquer Artists", CHON'S Event, 63 Ham Long, Hanoi.

2019: Exhibition The Gala Dinner for the 20th Anniversary of Ben Thanh Art Gallery, Part Hyatt Saigon, Ho Chi Minh City.

2018: Sm painting exhibition event, Vietnamese fashion and fundraising auction organized by Enfance Partenariat Vietnam at Madam Hien, Hanoi!

Exhibition and auction causing heart surgery "Scar of Life - Four Leaf Clover" at the French Consulate Residence, Ho Chi Minh City.

2017: Exhibition "Lacquer artist Tran Dinh Khuong - Doan Thuy Hanh" at Versailles City Hall, France.

2016: Exhibition "Vietnamese Lacquer Art" organized by Enfance Partenariat Vietnam "Vietnam Tet" at Versailles - France.

2013: Exhibition "Expression & Reflection", at Ion Orchard, Singapore.

2013, 2015, 2016: Participated in auctions to raise charity funds organized by Operation Smile in Ho Chi Minh City.

2012: Exhibition and auction "Vietnamese Art History" at 9 Raffles Place, Penthouse (floors 62-64), Republic Plaza Tower, Singapore

The "Building Dreams" exhibition organized by Nam A Bank to raise charity funds.

2011: The 26th Asia International Art Exhibition, Hangaram Art Museum and Joenbuk Art Museum, Seoul, Korea.

2010: Charity auction exhibition organized by Operation Smile at Park Hyatt Saigon, Ho Chi Minh City.

2009: 24th Asian International Art Exhibition, National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

2008: The 23rd Asia International Art Exhibition, Guangzhou, China.

2007: Exhibition "Terracotta way along Rore River" Thang Long & Red Gallery, Dubai, UAE

Participate in An Evening of Smiler -Operation Smile Vietnam held at Park Hyatt Sai Gon hotel

Exhibition "Hanoi Mosaic Project", Museum of Ethnology, Hanoi.

2006: Exhibition Faces of Vietnamese Lacquer students by Totiizak Art Gallery, ANA Intercontinental Tokyo, Japan.

2005 - 2010: National Fine Arts Exhibition

2003: Exhibition "Only 1m2" at Exhibition House 16 Ngo Quyen, Hanoi.

2005: Exhibition "Link" at Thang Long - Dragon Gallery- 41 Hang Gai, Hanoi

1997, 1998: Capital Art Exhibition.,

Vietnam Young Artists Club Exhibition 2002, 2005, 16 Ngo Quyen, Hanoi.

1995: Group exhibition "Spring", Art Introduction and Exchange Center 43 Trang Tien, Hanoi.