Tran Xuan Binh

The artist graduated from Hanoi Fine Art College and now works there as a professor. For an artist so young, Binh has racked up an impressive list of prizes , including the National Fine Arts 2000 Award and the Grand Prize in the 2000 Fine Arts for Art Colleges contest. Binh is known for his fresh takes on traditional motifs. Influenced by surrealism, he is inspired by Vietnam's cultural diversity. One series of Binh's paintings focused on the decorative details of ethnic minority people's clothing.