Artist Dang Hien

Vietnamese Lacquer Paintings | Nguyen Art Gallery

Artist Dang Hien_Vietnamese Lacquer Artist_Nguyen Art Gallery

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The Journey into Art

Dang Hien has chosen lacquer as her primary medium, using it to tell her stories. With her skilled hands, she breathes life into vivid colors, seamlessly blending gold and silver to create an artistic world that is both regal and approachable. Her works are a harmonious fusion of traditional and contemporary beauty, with each piece offering a delicate balance between past and present.
Weaving the tenderest emotional landscape of a woman’s soul into traditional Vietnamese lacquer, Dang Hien creates a sanctuary of pure visual poetry. Under her intuitive touch, this historically solemn medium is reborn into an ethereal fantasy, where shimmering gold leaf and stardust-like silver powders intertwine like ancient galaxies. Instead of rigid storytelling, she uses cinnabar red, blossoming lotuses, and camellias to preserve floating fragments of memory—fragile, still, and pure. Within her canvases, the elegance of highland women and the sacred bond of motherhood look as splendid as a forgotten dynasty, yet feel as intimate as a quiet breath. Each creation operates as a silent poem, inviting the viewer into a secret garden of deep romantic nuance.

Year of Birth: 1982

Place of Birth: Hòa Bình, Việt Nam

Education: Graduated from Hanoi University of Industrial Fine ArtsMembership:

Exhibition & Award

2018   Group Exhibition “Lacquer Pathways,” Hanoi


2017   Female Artists’ Exhibition, Hanoi


2016   “Paint One Another, Know One Another” Exhibition, Beijing, China


2015   “Vietnamese Lacquer Paintings” Exhibition, Seoul, South Korea

2025   “Sac Tam” – A Vietnamese Lacquer Painting Exhibition at Nguyen Art Gallery


2024   “Her Palettes” Art Exhibition at Nguyen Art Gallery, Hanoi


2018   Specialized Lacquer Exhibition, Chapter 4, Vietnam Fine Arts Association


2018   “Son Ta – Vietnamese Lacquer” Exhibition, Hanoi

Highlight Artworks of Dang Hien

Dang Hien

Blue Night

ARTIST: Dang Hien
MATERIAL: Lacquer on wood
SIZE: 60cm*60cm | 23.6 inches*23.6 inches
GALLERY Nguyen Art 31A Van Mieu

Dang Hien

Soliloquy II

ARTIST: Dang Hien
MATERIAL: Lacquer on wood
SIZE: 60cm*60cm | 23.6 inches*23.6 inches
GALLERY: Nguyen Art JW Marriot Phu Quoc

Dang Hien

Red Camellia

ARTIST: Dang Hien
MATERIAL: Lacquer on wood
SIZE: 90cm*60cm | 35.4 inches*23.6 inches
GALLERY: Nguyen Art JW Marriot Phu Quoc
 

ARTIST: Dang Hien
MATERIAL: Lacquer on wood
SIZE: 90cm*60cm | 35.4 inches*23.6 inches
GALLERY: Nguyen Art 31A Van Mieu
 

ARTIST: Dang Hien
MATERIAL: Lacquer on wood
SIZE: 80cm*120cm | 31.5 inches*47.2 inches
GALLERY: Nguyen Art Lotte Mall West Lake
 

Dang Hien

White Lotus

ARTIST: Dang Hien
MATERIAL: Lacquer on wood
SIZE: 90cm*140cm | 35.4 inches*55.1 inches
GALLERY: Nguyen Art 31A Van Mieu