Artist Mai Huy Dung | Paintings & Art Career

artist mai huy dung

Artist Mai Huy Dung was born in 1974 in Hanoi. In 1999, he graduated Design Department – at Hanoi Open University. He is one of the best artists at Nguyen Art Gallery who specialized in oil on canvas with topics from Nude, Portrait to Landscape. His artworks are collected by many private collectors around the world. He is also a member of the Vietnam Fine Arts Association.

Artist Mai Huy Dung’s Quote about Art

“When standing before a pure white canvas, my heart and mind seem not to have space for academic counts and I started to paint as a sleep-walking man does, returning to the unconscious instinct. Perhaps, when I behold my pictures once more time, I realize that sometimes I am so gentle, sometimes madly violent, hot, and even fierce. Sometimes, I ask myself why I have so much inspiration for the female body. The answer may be simple: I am a man. For dry men, they consider women as just human beings with those organs, but for amorous men, women are the very wonders; each body brings you different feelings which are always fresh and seduced. The female body is always the reason for me to free my feelings from tender and sweet strokes to fierce and hot anger. Feels have daily streamed out through mild and listless gestures, sometimes tense and neat ones. For me, painting is a party of “form of colors” dedicated to women’s bodies. Such a form is always lively with clear feelings of ceaseless and tender movements. Such colors are sweet, salty, bitter… One person asked me: why do your pictures contain deep ideas about life? Such an interesting question. Perhaps, each artist has his own living environment, which makes everyone have certain emotions. Artworks shall be only good when the painter illustrates his own feelings. Life seems to reserve me favorable conditions and I am always full of feelings for women. I have borrowed the female body to demonstrate my emotional states as well as ideas about movements of colors. For me, painting is living.”

Exhibitions & Events

  • 2008: Exhibition "An Echo Song" in Hanoi
  • 2010: Solo exhibition in Hanoi
  • 2010: Exhibition of the Fine Art Association of Vietnam
  • 2012: Exhibition "Frontier Area” at Nguyen Art Gallery, 31A Van Mieu, Hanoi
  • 2015: Exhibition “We Open” at Vietnam Fine Arts Museum, Hanoi
  • 2016: Solo exhibition “MJ” at V-Art Club, Hanoi
  • 2016: Exhibition “Four ways” at Vietnam Fine Arts Museum
  • 2016: Exhibition “Chroma of Rock” at Kaohsiung, Taiwan
  • 2017: Exhibition “Focus on Asia” at Limlip art museum, Korea
  • 2017: Exhibition “The Flow” at Kaohsiung, Taiwan
  • 2017: Exhibition “Moving” at 16 Ngo Quyen, Hanoi
  • 2020: Exhibition "Narrow Life" in Hanoi, Vietnam

Message to Gallery Owner

Xin Chao!
Nguyen Art Gallery Owner

I am Henry Le

"I am happy to receive your words"

Highlight Artworks of Mai Huy Dung

Mai Huy Dung

Size: 50cm*40cm | 19.7 inches*15.7 inches
Material: Acrylic on canvas

Abstract 18

Mai Huy Dung

Size: 50cm*40cm | 19.7 inches*15.7 inches
Material: Acrylic on canvas

Abstract 17

Mai Huy Dung

Size: 105cm*80cm | 41.3 inches*31.5 inches
Material: Acrylic on canvas

Portrait 71

Mai Huy Dung

Size: 105cm*80cm | 41.3 inches*31.5 inches
Material: Acrylic on canvas

Portrait 68

Mai Huy Dung

Size: 56cm*41cm | 22 inches*16 inches
Material: Watercolor painting on Do paper

Cat II

Mai Huy Dung

Size: 80cm*125cm | 31.5 inches*49.2 inches
Material: Acrylic on canvas

Abstract 10

Mai Huy Dung

Size: 56cm*41cm | 22 inches*16 inches
Material: Watercolor painting on Do paper

Cat I

Mai Huy Dung

Size: 50cm*35cm | 19.7 inches*14.2 inches
Material: Oil on canvas

Sexy Dance I

Mai Huy Dung

Size: 80cm*105cm | 31.5 inches*41.3 inches
Material: Acrylic on canvas

Wild Horse I

Mai Huy Dung

Size: 110cm*160cm | 43 inches*63 inches
Material: Oil on canvas

Portrait 37

Mai Huy Dung

Size: 110cm*160cm | 43 inches*63 inches
Material: Oil on canvas

Portrait 35

Mai Huy Dung

Size: 110cm*160cm | 43 inches*63 inches
Material: Oil on canvas

Portrait 33

Mai Huy Dung

Size: 110cm*160cm | 43 inches*63 inches
Material: Oil on canvas

Portrait 32

Mai Huy Dung

Size: 110cm*160cm | 43 inches*63 inches
Material: Oil on canvas

Portrait 30

Mai Huy Dung

Size: 110cm*160cm | 43 inches*63 inches
Material: Oil on canvas

Portrait 23

Mai Huy Dung

Size: 120cm*100cm | 47 inches*39 inches
Material: Oil on canvas

Nude 30

Mai Huy Dung

Size: 120cm*100cm | 47 inches*39 inches
Material: Oil on canvas

Nude 20

Mai Huy Dung

Size: 75cm*150cm | 30 inches*59 inches
Material: Oil on canvas

Nude 23

Mai Huy Dung

Size: 160cm*110cm | 63 inches*43 inches
Material: Oil on canvas

Nude 14

Mai Huy Dung

Size: 110cm*160cm | 43 inches*63 inches
Material: Oil on canvas

Portrait 21

Mai Huy Dung

Size: 160cm*110cm | 63 inches*43 inches
Material: Oil on canvas

Portrait 17

Mai Huy Dung

Size: 150cm*150cm | 59 inches*59 inches
Material: Oil on canvas

Portrait 16

Mai Huy Dung

Size: 110cm*160cm | 43 inches*63 inches
Material: Acrylic on canvas

Portrait 06

Mai Huy Dung

Size: 150cm*150cm | 59 inches*59 inches
Material: Acrylic on canvas

Portrait 05

Mai Huy Dung

Size: 110cm*160cm | 43 inches*63 inches
Material: Acrylic on canvas

Portrait 07

Mai Huy Dung

Size: 110cm*160cm | 43 inches*63 inches
Material: Oil on canvas

Portrait 09

Mai Huy Dung

Size: 150cm*150cm | 59 inches*59 inches
Material: Acrylic on canvas

Portrait 03

Mai Huy Dung

Size: 150cm*150cm | 59 inches*59 inches
Material: Acrylic on canvas

Portrait 04

Mai Huy Dung

Size: 160cm*110cm | 63 inches*43 inches
Material: Oil on canvas

Portrait 10

Mai Huy Dung

Size: 110cm*160cm | 43 inches*63 inches
Material: Oil on canvas

Nude

Mai Huy Dung

Size: 100cm*100cm | 39 inches*39 inches
Material: Acrylic on canvas

Fish 10

Mai Huy Dung

Size: 50cm*40cm | 19.6 inches*15.7 inches
Material: Acrylic on canvas

Abstract 08

Mai Huy Dung

Size: 50cm*50cm | 19.6 inches*19.6 inches
Material: Acrylic on canvas

Abstract 05

Mai Huy Dung

Size: 105cm*80cm | 41.3 inches*31.5 inches
Material: Oil on canvas

Abstract 04

Mai Huy Dung

Size: 105cm*80cm | 41.3 inches*31.5 inches
Material: Acrylic on canvas

Abstract 01

Mai Huy Dung

Size: 50cm*60cm | 19.7 inches*23.6 inches
Material: Acrylic on canvas

Wild Horse III

Mai Huy Dung

Size: 110cm*160cm | 43 inches*63 inches
Material: Oil on canvas

Portrait 34

Mai Huy Dung

Size: 80cm*105cm | 31.5 inches*41.3 inches
Material: Acrylic on canvas

Wild Horse II

Mai Huy Dung

Size: 50cm*35cm | 19.7 inches*14.2 inches
Material: Oil on canvas

Sexy Dance II

Mai Huy Dung

Size: 110cm*160cm | 43 inches*63 inches
Material: Oil on canvas

Portrait 27