Born in 1971 in Quang Nam province, graduated from Ho Chi Minh University of Fine Arts in 1998, Bui Tien Tuan has made a name for himself as one of the best silk painters of Vietnamese contemporary art.

Mainly using ink and watercolor on silk or dzo paper and focused on woman portraits, but rather than to conform with standards and patterns of these traditional media and the classic topic, Tuan's works are uniquely striking as powerful, dynamic, yet sophisticated. Depicted in an imaginary world, the characters in his painting are free and self - assertive, disentangled themselves from all banalities of everyday life.