Bio

Brian Dang was born in Champaign, Illinois. In 2011 Brian received a Bachelor of Fine Art in painting with minor in art management at George Mason University. Brian has already been included in various important exhibition including "Intersection" at Tribeca Arts Project, New York, NY and "Emerging Artist" at Sage Moon Gallery in Charlotte, Virginia.

Brian Dang was born in Champaign Illinois and was raised in the suburbs of Northern Virginia where he was introduced to the arts through his first generation Vietnamese immigrant parents who overcame obstacles as "boat people" language and culture barriers for a better education and life in America. Brian's interest in the visual arts was mostly due to his high school teachers who cultivated and inspired him to seek his own journey to identify his own discovery of his identity as Asian American male. Brian continues a higher education through training from his painting professor Chawky Frenn. Frenn inspired brian as his own apprentice to discover his own passion and discover through visual language of painting and drawing.

Highlights of his professional career as able to purse a deeper understanding of his parents' journey from Vietnam to America through a series of paintings he did relating to the causalities of South Vietnamese from the Vietnam War. Tommy Dyo the national director of an Asian-American ministry called Epic said of Brian's series:

"I am touch. What if you are able to show this work to Vietnamese American churches? Imagine the kind of profound impact your work can be as a mournful healing place of comfort for especially immigrant Vietnamese people."

Another highlight of Brian's career was the opportunity to make a mural of New Orleans' Katrina relief efforts in collaboration with Desiree Rindahl, student at University of New Orleans. This collaboration formulate in Tribeca, New York through Campus Crusade art project with other 21 young Christian artists living together and making art in summer of 2008. The mural piece "Unfinished" was displayed at "reHUMANIZ" in New York Center of Art and Media Studies in partner with Bethel University and was later sold to New Orleans' The Beacon of Hope Resources Center.

This created a mindset for Brian to seek after other art mentors through the School of Arts faculty such as the Honors Seminar group. Professor Suzanne Carbonneau and Selena Kimball has mentored Brian's professional pursuits and through an arts program in Tribeca New York, Brian was able to be mentored by Wayne Adam, Brooklyn Artist. He is currently interning with McLean Project for the Arts and work at George Mason's School of Arts as a gallery assistant to understand the interworking of the art world whether through not-for-profit art center or academia gallery setting. He is developing personal relationship and networking through these art organization as well as connection with Lorton Art Foundation Workhouse and Great Falls' Studios.

Brian will pursue his Master degree of Fine Art at New York Academy of Art to exceed his continuing practice and acquire professional honing of his artistic skills that will propel him for more opportunities.