Le Thiet Cuong

Le Thiet Cuong was born in 1962 in Hanoi. His father, Le Nguyen, was a well respected film playwright, scriptwriter and poet and his mother, Do Phuong Thao was a famous cinematographer. As a young child, Cuong moved with his family to Binh Da village, where they escaped the American bombing of Hanoi. Cuong attended the Vietnam State Film College from 1985 - 1990 and graduated with a degree in set design and animation.

Cuong began to study Tay Tang Buddhism (a Tibetan sect) after his graduation from college and his devotion to these studies has profoundly influenced his work. Coungs first solo international exhibition was in 1995 and since then, his works have been widely recognized and collected in both private and public collections and are included in the new Southeast Asian art collection at the Singapore National Museum.

“A painting is not a creation of the hand but of the mind. Perhaps, I started to return from a point. I am still at that point to which I did not belong from the beginning.” Le Thiet Cuong