Sobre el Artista
Full name: Pham Kien Giang
Born: 01/01/1969 in Hanoi
Native village: The most old famous ceramic village of Bat Trang, Gia Lam, Hanoi.
Address: 60 Trieu Viet Vuong Street, Hai Ba Trung District, Hanoi Capital, Vietnam
Email: phamkiengianghs@gmail.com
Childhood: used to live with parients who were high school teachers in Bac Ninh. Then had moved to Hanoi to live and study. After that had gone to Europe for 7 years. Now lives and works in Hanoi.
"One day I ask myself that who am I? And then I go to seek for myself – somewhere in this world. I go to find out myself – somewhere in this life. I go to discover myself – somewhere in this person.
Painting leads me to go to discover myself.
Saying about my art, I do not want to argue so much but only want to express what I feel from bottom of my heart and to paint like as the inspiration from myself, like as what I feel."
Exhibitions:
2003: DREAMY LANDSCAPES 1 at Aroma d.d Gallery, Hanoi, VN
2004: DREAMY LANDSCAPES 2 at Aroma d.d Gallery, Hanoi, VN
2005: PEACEFUL SCENES FROM VIETNAM, 12 August – September 8 at Linden Gallery, Wisoncin, USA
2006: A SHOW at Spring Walk, Illinois, USA
2007: IMMORTAL ART DECLARATION, August 26 – September 9 at Aroma d.d,
Exhibition Space & Store, VN
2008: LEAVES, March 22 – April 4 at Aroma d.d, Exhibition Space & Store, VN
2008: FREDDOM, September 7 – October 9 at Aroma d.d, Exhibition Space & Store, VN
Articles about Giang’s Paintings:
In The Realm Of Memory
The work of the young Hanoi painter Pham Kien Giang deals with the memory of time and place. His vision is one of a gentle rural idyll in which a sense of innocence reigns. The pace of life is slow and one that has altered little from one generation to another. It is a world of peace that people from the frenetic world of the city long to return to.
[by Ian Findlay, Editor of Asian Art News
Asian Art News January/February 2005, pages nr.76 and 77]
The Idyllic Imagination
[Robert C. Watson, Asian Art News July/August 2006. Volume 16, number 4]
Paintings by artist Pham Kien Giang are most liked by America, Singapore and Hong Kong; in domestic and overseas collections.