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Dinh Cuong (?? ?? 1939 – Present) is a Vietnamese modern artist. He has lived in Hue, Dalat and Saigon until 1989. Currently residing in Burke, Virginia U.S.A.

Biography
1964 National Institute of Fine Arts, Saigon.

1959-1963 Hue Institute of Fine Arts.

1951-1957 Lycee Petrus-Ky, Saigon, Vietnam.

Dinh Cuong is well known as an artist, poet, writer, and former professor of Fine Art at Dong Khanh College Hue. In the 1960s, he joined the Young Vietnamese Artists Association and was the general secretary in the period from 1969 to 1971. He has participated in the following international events: Singapore (1974), Sao Paulo (1967), Tokyo (1966), Tunis (1964), Paris (1963), and International Exhibition in Saigon Vietnam (1962). Private collections of his work exist in Vietnam, U.S.A., Canada, France, Germany. His poems and essays on art have appeared in Van Hoc Nghe Thuat, Hop Luu, Van, Van Hoc, The Ky 21.

Works
Niagara Falls (1991) Exile (1991) Half Courtyard Covered in Snow (1994) Religious Seclusion series (1998)

Gallery
to be updated with Dinh Cuong's paintings

Awards
1963 Silver Medal, Spring Exhibits, Saigon, Vietnam.

1962 Silver Medal, Spring Exhibits, Saigon, Vietnam.

1962 Prize awarded by the Embassy of China in Vietnam.