Pham An Hai is a Vietnamese abstract painter, born in 1967 in Hanoi. His paintings are inspired by landscapes, cityscapes and nature, but he offers his own personal interpretations of these familiar themes.
Hai graduated from the Hanoi Institute of Fine Art in 1995 and received his Master of Art degree in 2006. He started out as an artist doing expressionistic paintings and also figurative art, but soon moved on towards abstraction. The abstractionist language has proved to suit Pham An Hai who, by nature, is rather more prone to emotional expression than to description. He tends to perpetuate evanescent things, sometimes beyond perception that one cannot grasp, but only vaguely guess.
Pham An Hai has participated in several exhibitions in Vietnam, United kingdom, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Belgium, Thailand, Japan, the United States, Italy, South Korea and Dubai. He is one of the contemporary Vietnamese artists whose works have been sold in auctions, presented at Sotheby’s South Asian Art auctions over the last three seasons, and his works were bought by Vietnam Fine Arts Museum and National Gallery Petronas Malaysia.
Pham lives and works in Hanoi, Vietnam.