Vu Van Long
Vu Van Long was born in 1970 into an artistic family and graduated from the Hanoi Fine Art University in 2001. Since finishing the art university, he has spent a tremendous amount of time studying and experimenting with oil, acrylic, and lacquer materials. His first projects focused on bringing the contemporary visual arts to lacquer, a most traditional material. He then embarked on a series of oil paintings before moving to a combination of oils and inks on handmade raw silk canvases.

His true desire was to be able to depict his vision of female beauty with his own unique perspective and he has finally become comfortable by combining materials from the east (lacquer, ink and mineral pigments) with materials from the west (oils). He works with various media in ways that support and enhance each other in his pieces. The nature of his art work is complex and elegant (yet fanciful elements abound – just look beyond the main figure…) and his pieces depict women as both serene and strong.