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HO CHI MINH C. David Thomas
David Thomas joined the U.S. Army in 1969 and was sent to Pleiku, South Vietnam, as a combat engineer/artist. In 1987 he returned to Vietnam for the first time. Since then he has made more than thirty trips to Vietnam to do research and conduct programs of cultural exchange between the United States and Vietnam. Thomas has curated three exhibitions: As Seen by Both Sides: American and Vietnamese Artists Look at the War (the first major cultural exchange between the U.S. and Vietnam since the war), An Ocean Apart: Contemporary Vietnamese Artwork From The United States and Vietnam, and Seven Pillars: The National Treasure Artists of Vietnam. In 1999, Thomas became the first foreigner to receive the Vietnam Art Medal, Vietnam's highest art award. Since 1987 Thomas has done extensive research on Ho Chi Minh and Vietnamese culture and has collected hundreds of pictures of Ho Chi Minh, stamps and other images from Vietnamese history. Charles Fenn, born in London, has lived and worked in many countries. After five years at sea, he emigrated to the USA, landed a job in textiles and subsequently became an American citizen. As an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II, he was assigned to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), and subsequently to the Air Ground Aid Services (AGAS), engaged in the rescue of downed pilots and liaison with prisoners of war. While pursuing this work in Vietnam, he received invaluable help in AGAS work from Ho Chi Minh. In connection with these various pursuits, Fenn was thrice decorated for services and valor. Professionally he is a writer of plays, novels, and some nonfiction. In 1973, Fenn wrote Life of Ho, a short biography that was published in several countries and highly rated for its insight and accuracy.
C. DAVID THOMAS Biographical Information EDUCATION Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, M.F.A. 1974 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 5th Year Certificate 1973 Tufts University, Medford, MA, B.F.A. 1973 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, Diploma 1971-1973 Maine College of Art, Portland, ME, Diploma 1964-1968
TEACHING Emmanuel College, Boston, MA Professor of Art 1992-1999 Buckingham, Browne & Nichols School, Cambridge, MA Artist in Residence 1979 University of Lowell, Lowell, MA Instructor in Printmaking 1979 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA Technical instructor 1973-1974
OTHER Founder and Director of the Indochina Arts Partnership. The IAP is a non-profit corporation begun in 1988, with the goal to promote through cultural exchanges reconciliation between the United States and the countries of Indochina. Founding member of Gallery NAGA
SPECIAL HONORS Vietnam Art Medal (First foreigner to receive highest art honor given in Vietnam) 1999 Faculty Excellence Award, Emmanuel College 1997 Nominated for the Viet Nam Peace Prize 1996
EXHIBITIONS CURATED/BOOKS PUBLISHED Author, "Ho Chi Minh: An Artist's Portrait" 1999-2000 This artist's book contains 110 pages of images and text (approximately 55 of each) including a fictious diary by Ho based on actual events in his life. The diary and factual information were written by Charles Fenn, Ho Chi Minh's biographer and the man who worked with Ho while in the OSS during WW II.
Curator "Seven Pillars: The National Treasure Artists of Vietnam". 1998-2000 An exhibition of art work by the leading artists of Vietnam. The exhibition is scheduled to open in Hanoi in late 1998, after which it will travel to the U.S. for two years. The exhibition will have its final showing at the Ho Chi Minh Fine Arts Museum in early 2000.
Curator "An Ocean Apart: Contemporary Vietnamese Art From the United States and Vietnam" 1992-1997 An exhibition of contemporary art work by Vietnamese and Vietnamese/American artists organized for Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service
Curator, "As Seen by Both Sides: American and Vietnamese Artists look at the War". 1988-1995 An exhibition of contemporary art about the war in Vietnam by twenty artists from each country.
Curator, "Spring 21" 1994 An exhibition of U.S. and Vietnamese artists.
Curator, "Exchanged Impressions" 1992 An exchange exhibition of fifty U.S. printamkers and fifty Vietnamese printmakers which is traveling in both countries.
Curator, "Exchanged Impressions", An exchange exhibition of contemporary prints between the Boston Printmakers and the Fine Arts Association in Hanoi 1991
Editor, As Seen by Both Sides: American and Vietnamese Artists Look at the War 1991 Seven Pillars: The National Treasure Artists of Vietnam, expected publication date 1999
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS The Boston Printmaker's Executive Board 1979-1999 Gallery NAGA Executive Board 1978-1988 Gallery NAGA Executive Board Chairman 1981-1988 Portland School of Art, Trustee 1982-1987 Veteran's For Peace 1987-1993 International Arts Association 1987-1996
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS (Partial List) Newton Free Library, Newton, MA Scheduled for 2000 Pacific Bridge Gallery, Oakland, CA Scheduled for 2000 Richard f. Brush Art Gallery, Canton, NY Scheduled for 2000 Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA Scheduled for 2000 Ho Chi Minh Museum, Hue, Vietnam Scheduled for 2001 Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, ME 1998 Fine Arts Association Gallery, Hanoi, Vietnam 1996 Lillian Immig Gallery, Boston, MA 1995 Cox Gallery, Drury College, Springfield, MO 1993 Macy Art Gallery, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York 1990 Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 1990 Blanchard Gallery, Concord, MA 1990 Framingham State College, Framingham, MA 1989 Carleton College, Northfield, MN 1988 Rhode Island Community College, Lincoln & Warwick, RI 1988 Gallery NAGA, Boston, MA 1988 Newton Free Library, Newton, MA 1988 Gallery NAGA, Boston, MA 1986 Miriam Perlman, Chicago. IL 1985 Alison Fine Art, Hong Kong 1984 Emmanuel College, Boston, MA 1984 Gallery NAGA, Boston, MA 1983 Miriam Perlman, Chicago, IL 1983 Baak Gallery, Cambridge, MA 1982 Barn Gallery, Danvers, MA 1981 Gallery NAGA, Boston, MA 1980 Thumb Gallery, London, England 1980 Barridoff Galleries, Portland, ME 1979 Gallery NAGA, Boston, MA 1979 The Galleries, Wellesley, MA 1977 Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 1977 Impressions Gallery, Boston, MA 1976 Ainsworth Gallery, Boston, MA 1975 Andover Gallery of Fine Art, Andover, MA 1974 Nasrudin Gallery, Boston, MA 1974 Westbrook College, Portland, ME 1973 Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA 1972
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS National Museum of Fine Arts, Ha Noi 1994 National Museum of Fine Arts, Ho Chi Minh City 1994 Southwest Missouri State University 1993 Rankin Fine Arts Center, Big Rapids, MI 1993 Jamaica Art Center, Queens, NY 1993 Lehigh University Art Galleries, Bethlehem, PA 1993 Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA 1993 New England College Art Gallery, Henniker, NH 1993 Bell Building Art Gallery, Springfield, MO 1993 Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, Canton, NY 1993 Baxter Gallery, Portland School of Art, Portland, ME 1992 Art & Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, FL 1992 Lehigh University Art Galleries 1992 Hollywood Art & Culture Center 1992 Sharon Art Center,Sharon, NH 1992 Waterworks Visual Arts Center, Salisbury, NC 1991 Art Center of Battle Creek, Battle Creek, MI 1991 Wight Art Gallery, UCLA, Los Angles, CA 1991 Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA 1991 DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA 1991 Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA 1990 Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Arvada, CO 1990 Laura Knott Gallery, Bradford College, Bradford, MA 1990 Harbor Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA 1990 Salem State College, Salem, MA 1990 Gallery 410, Lowell, MA 1990 Phillips Brooks House, Harvard, Cambridge, MA 1989 The Art Institute, Boston, MA 1989 North American Print Exhibition 1976-1993 Boston Printmakers Members' Exhibition 1976-1993 Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, N.Y. 1984 Thumb Gallery, London, England 1983 DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA 1983 Fitchburg Museum, Fitchburg, MA 1981 U.S. Information Agency Traveling Exhibition Japan 1979-1980 Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA 1975 University of Texas at El Paso 1971 Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME 1968
AWARDS Rockefeller Foundation Grant 1996-97 Ford Foundation Grant 1994-99 Asian Cultural Council Grant 1993, 95, 98, 99 National Endowment for the Arts Travel Grant 1992 Smithsonian Institution Grant 1991 Kellogg Foundation, Expert-in-Residence, Battle Creek, MI 1991 Vietnam Veteran's of America Foundation Grant 1989 Beyond War Regional Award, Newton, MA 1989 Arts Lottery Grant, Newton, MA 1987,1989 Massachusetts Artists Fellowship, Finalist 1985,1987
PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA Boston Public Library, Boston, MA Philadelphia Museum of Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA National Museum of Fine Arts, Hanoi, Vietnam National Museum of Fine Arts, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI U.S. Army Headquarters, Washington, DC University of Hue, Hue, Vietnam Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA AT&T, Bank of Boston, Beatrice Foods, Federal Reserve Bank, Ford Motor Co., General Electric, Gould Corporation, Henry Ford Hospital, Hyatt Regancy Hotel, Cambridge, MA, IBM (CT, NH, PA, IL), Illinois Bell, King Ranch, Texas, Lake Shore Hotel, Chicago, IL
BIBLIOGRAPHY/REVIEWS (selected list, last updated 1994) The Christian Science Monitor, February 9, 1994 TheSaigon Times, Le Hung Vong, January 13-19, 1994 The Boston Globe, Marty Carlock, December 26, 1993 Van Hoa, Phan Kim Binh, January 23, 1994 Hanoi Moi, Dam Thuy, January 23, 1994 The News Ledger, Sara Love, November 4, 1993 The Observer (Notre Dame), December 6, 1993 Sunday Monitor, Roberta Baker, October 3, 1993 Museum News, LL, November/December 1993 Art News, Robin Cemblast, November 1993 Art in America, Stephanie Cash, September 1993 The New York Times, September 15, 1993 San Francisco Chronicle, David A. Sylvester San Francisco Examiner, David Bonetti Star Tribune, Jim Parsons, June 18 ,1993 San Jose Mercury, T.T. Nhu, May 23, 1993 The Atlanta Journal , Deborah Scroggins, Jan 25, 1993 The Washington Times, Valerie Richardson, May 17, 1993 The Atlanta Journal, Catherine Fox, January 29, 1993 Portland Press Herald, Bob Niss, March 19, 1992 Maine Sunday Telegram, Alan Clendenning, March 22, 1992 Casco Bay Weekly, Paul Karr, March 26, 1992 Maine Sunday Telegram, Ken Greenleaf, April 12, 1992 Miami Herald, Helen M. Cohen, February 2, 1992 The Charlotte Observer, Richard Maschal, November 14, 1991 The Salisbury Post, Mark Wineka, November 10, 1991 The Salisbury Post, Jane Eagle Lunsford, November 7, 1991 The Salisbury Post, Jane Eagle Lunsford, October 17, 1991 Battle Creek Enquirer, Trace Christenson, September 8, 1991 Battle Creek Enquirer, September 11, 1991 Battle Creek News, September 12, 1991 Battle Creek Enquirer, Nancy Kaley, September 12, 1991 Kalamazoo Gazette, Craig A. Thomas, September 13, 1991 Battle Creek Enquirer, Mark Glubke, September 13, 1991 The Boston Globe, John Koch, June 22, 1991 Hanoi Moi, Nguyen Quoc Chinh, August 20, 1991 Museum News, Calendar, May/June 1991 Art Issues, Summer 1991 The Chronicle of Higher Education, End Paper, May 1, 1991 Young Adult Paperback Guide, Spring/Summer 1991 My Thuat - Thoi Nay, Huynh Phuong Dong, May 1991 The Veteran Journal, May 1991 San Francisco Chronicle, Kenneth Baker, May 6, 1991 UCLA Daily Bruin, Stash Maleski, April 22, 1991 Hanoi Moi, Nguyen Quoc Chinh, April 20, 1991 L.A. Weekly, Ralph Rugoff, April 12, 1991 The Village Voice, Brian Palmer, April, 1991 The Hollywood Reporter, March 28, 1991 Los Angles Times, William Wilson, March 27, 1991 The Outlook, Saul Ruben, March 26, 1991 Daily News - L.A. Life, Meg Sullivan, March 23, 1991 The Christian Science Monitor, Francie Rottmannn, March 12, 1991 The Boston Sunday Globe, Book Section, February 24, 1991 Newton Graphic, Josh Yegar, February 20, 1991 Daily Hampshire Gazette, Patricia Wright, February 6, 1991 Art New England, Daniel Ranelli, February 5, 1991 Associated Press, Boston, January 1991 The Daily Free Press, Caddy Woodward, January 31, 1991 The Boston Globe, Christine Temin, January 13, 1991 Cape Cod Times, Cindy Nickerson, January 26, 1991 Amherst Bulletin, Bruce Watson, January 30, 1991 The Boston Herald, Mary Sherman, January 18, 1991 The Boston Globe, Nancy Stapen, January 16, 1991 The Boston Sunday Herald, Terry Byrne, January 13, 1991 American Journal, Harry Foote, December 19, 1990 Rocky Mountain News, Carol Dickenson, May 25, 1990 Sunday Boulder Camera, Laura Caruso, May 13, 1990 The Denver Post, Steven Rosen, May 13, 1990 Worcester Magazine, Mary Trainor, March 14, 1990 The Christian Science Monitor, Gail Russell Chaddock, January 18, 1990 The Christian Science Monitor, July 18, 1989 American Journal, Harry Foote, February 15, 1989 The Carletonian, Suzanne Donnelly, October 14, 1988 The News, Northfield, MN, October 13, 1988 The Boston Globe, Christine Temin, February 28, 1988 The Tab, S. Klasky, March 1, 1988 Newton Graphic, February 17, 1988 Art New England, Anthony Aziz, May 1988 Heights, Joanne McChesney, May 1988 Cape Cod Times, May 13, 1988 Veteran, Joe Smoljan, September 1987 The Boston Herald, Nancy Stapen, July 10, 1987 Lincoln Journal, Carol Ann Bottino, May 8, 15, 22, 29, 1986 Lexington Minuteman, Marty Carlock, May 1, 1986 The Arts, Marty Carlock, May 1, 1986 South China Morning Post, Nigel Cameron, June 9, 1985 South China Morning Post, Ian Findlay, June 1985 The Boston Globe, Robert Taylor, December 2, 1983 The Boston Globe, Christine Temin, December 8, 1983 The Cambridge Express, December 3, 1983 The Boston Globe, Robert Taylor, October 14, 1982 The Boston Globe, Robert Taylor, September 19, 1976 Thirty Years Of American Printmaking, Gene Baro, 1976 Lithography, Maryanne Wenniger, 1977 Artweek, Joan Tiffany, October, 1978 Portland Maine Evening Express, Bob Niss, April 28, 1976 Portland Maine Evening Express, Bob Niss, August 1974
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