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b. 1972 -

Hom Nguyen is a self-taught, French-born artist of Vietnamese heritage. He often works in large-format portraiture. His work has been featured in solo and collective exhibitions since 2011.

Although he was interested in drawings and making portraits since childhood, Hom Nguyen's life shows that his daily responsibilities delayed his entry into the art world. Hom Nguyen decided to start his own business as a leather patina artist in 2009, the year his mother's died. He originally worked as a shoe salesman.

With a difficult start, he developed his own technique during the initial few months in Tokyo, Japan, learning from great masters of the tattoo in Shibuya. In France, his work focused on patinas, colors, and material. He became known for "works of art you can wear."

Hom Nguyen is a self-taught artist whose work is characterized by an instinctive and lively style. He uses many different materials such as oil, acrylic, ink, felt gouache and charcoal. Colors and movement are projected onto the canvas in the same visual manner that is characteristic of Jenny Saville's treatment of the flesh. Hom can also be linked with the figurative art of Lucian Freud, due to his expressive touch and tendency to torture and layer his material. However, Hom Nguyen offers a new pictorial vocabulary that is more emotional than that of Freud. The artist creates most of his works on canvas with a brush, pen, and knife