Ho Chi Minh City University of Fine Arts (
Vietnamese: ''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, 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
The prime minister of Vietnam ( vi, Thủ tướng Việt Nam), officially styled as the Prime Minister of the Government of the Socialist Republic ( vi, Thủ tướng Chính phủ nước Cộng hòa Xã hội chủ nghĩa), is the head of g ...
decided to found the university as it is today.
Alumni
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Nguyẽ̂n Lam (born 1941)
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Đỗ Quang Em (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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