Ho Chi Minh City University of Fine Arts (
Vietnamese
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: ''Đại học Mỹ thuật Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh'') is a university in
Bình Thạnh District, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The predecessor of this school was the École des Dessins, founded by
André Joyeux
André Joyeux (1871-?) was a French artist, first teacher and director of the Gia Định art school (Trường Mỹ nghệ thực hành Gia Định) founded in 1913 in a suburb of Saigon, 12 years before Victor Tardieu founded the national EB ...
in 1913, which became the École des Arts appliqués de Gia Đinh from 1940 to 1971 (Trung học Trang trí Mỹ thuật Gia Định).
[Nora A. Taylor ''Painters in Hanoi: an ethnography of Vietnamese art'' – Page 81 2009 "These texts ignore the fact that an art school was established in 1913 some ten kilometers outside of Saigon proper, in a ... Minh City known as Gia Dinh.4 The school, an ecole de dessin (drawing school), was first directed by Andre Joyeux."]
Under the administration of the
Republic of Vietnam
South Vietnam, officially the Republic of Vietnam ( vi, Việt Nam Cộng hòa), was a state in Southeast Asia that existed from 1955 to 1975, the period when the southern portion of Vietnam was a member of the Western Bloc during part of th ...
, from 1971, the school was upgraded to become Saigon College of Fine Arts. The Fine Arts College was founded in 1976. In 1981, the
Vietnamese prime minister decided to found the university as it is today.
Alumni
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Nguyẽ̂n Lam
Nguyen Lam (born 1941 in Can Tho, born Lam Huynh Long) is a Vietnamese painter. He is one of the first members of the Saigon Young Painters Association established in the 1970s. He specialises in lacquer painting Lacquer painting is a form of pai ...
(born 1941)
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Đỗ Quang Em
Đỗ Quang Em ( Ninh Thuận, Annam, Indochina, France (under the occupation of Japan), 1942 – 3 August 2021) was a Vietnamese painter based in Saigon, South Vietnam, then Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He graduated from Gia Định College of Fin ...
(1942–2021)
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Lê Hiền Minh
Lê Hiền Minh (born 1979) is a Vietnamese artist known for employing a Vietnamese traditional handmade paper called Dó to construct large-scale installations. Her work acts as a bridge between contemporary and traditional Vietnamese art and al ...
(born 1979)
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Universities in Ho Chi Minh City
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