Đỗ Quang Em ( Ninh Thuận, Annam,

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(under the occupation of

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), 1942 – 3 August 2021) was a Vietnamese painter based in

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, then

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, Vietnam. He graduated from Gia Định College of Fine Arts (''Cao Đẳng Mỹ Thuật Gia Định'') in 1965. Along with contemporaries such as

Đỗ Thị Ninh Đỗ Thị Ninh (born 1947) is a Vietnamese woman painter, though she refuses to be labelled a "woman artist". She graduated from Hanoi's Vietnam College of Fine Arts in 1966. She is one of the generation of artists which emerged, aged then 45–5 ...

(1947-) he was one of the generation of painters who emerged in the early 1980s which rebelled against the traditions of the French

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and afterward socialist schools of Vietnamese art. He was for a period sent to a re-education camp. Since 1994 Em mainly exhibited in

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and overseas, and has had his paintings purchased by

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.John Clark, Maurizio Peleggi, T. K. Sabapathy – ''Eye of the beholder'' . 2006 "From the time of his first solo exhibition there in 1994, he has rarely displayed paintings in Vietnam due to ongoing commitments with his Hong Kong dealer.12 In 2000, when former U.S. president, Bill Clinton visited Vietnam, he cited Do ; I ..."

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Do Quang Em
1942 births 2021 deaths 20th-century Vietnamese painters People from Ninh Thuận province People from Ho Chi Minh City 20th-century male artists 21st-century Vietnamese painters 21st-century male artists Male painters {{Vietnam-painter-stub