Dai Giang Nguyen BFA

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Artist’s Bio:

Mr. Dai-Giang Nguyen is a successful artist who has distinguished himself by creating and developing a new school of art, known as the “Upside-Down Art”. In connection with this innovative accomplishment, he has been responsible for writing the “Manifesto of UpsideDownism”.

Born on 21 May 1944 in Hanoi, Vietnam, Mr. Nguyen began painting when he was 7 years old. He attended Hanoi College of Art in his hometown from 1966-68, competing his studies with an Associate of Arts degree. He then had an opportunity to continue his artistic education in the former USSR, where courses at the Moscow College of Art from 1968-1974 culminated in Bachelor of Art degree. Later on in his career he migrated to the USA, where he subsequently enrolled at the University of Washington in Seattle in 1998 and obtained an Associate of Art degree the following year.

Mr. Nguyen is the author or subject of several articles in professional journals, as well has being listed in national and international biographical publications. Apart from recognition as the inventor of Upside-Down Art, he has been recipient of various other honors and awards, including 3^rd Prize and title of Most Talented Artist at an international competition held in Stockholm in 1997. More recently, Mr. Nguyen has collected the Portable Art Collection Award, 2001.

Mr. Nguyen currently resides in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA.

Artist’s Statement

The substance of man is good and ugly, correct and wrong. The art of UpsideDownism makes them live together in peace all day and night

www.daigiang-upsidedownism.net