Dang Xuan Hoa is one of the most high profiled Vietnamese artist in the Post-Doi Moi (‘Renovation; or ‘Renewal), doing mostly still-lifes and self-portraits in semi-abstract style. He is one of the members of the Gang of 5, the others being . As in this work of a sectioned domestic interior, there will be the pet cat, plants, a lantern, a Vietnamese fan, a liquor bottle and fish in the kitchen. All these signify an affordable life of sufficiency in the post-Doi Moi period, as opposed to its frugal communism days. He is a member of the promising Gang of 5, the others being Ha Tri Hieu, Tran Luong, Viet Dung and Pham Quang Vinh. In his book on Hoa, the critic Phan Can Thong wrote: “Hoa’s paintings are a process of spiritual development in which love and respect of life help him better understand himself.” Hoa’s emergence started since he graduated from the Hanoi College of Fine Art in 1983. His first solo was held overseas, in Massachusetts in the United States, at the Birkshire Community College, in 1994, under the Asian Cultural Centre’s Indo-China art programme. His first home solo was at the Mai Gallery in Hanoi in 1997, followed by another in Singapore (2007) and Ho Chi Minh City (2011). He was selected for the Havana Biennale, Cuba, in 1989, the Art Miami from 2005-2007, and took part in such exhibitions as Poetic Reflections and Ascending Dragons, both in New York, in 1999 and 2000 respectively. He also took part in the 2009 exhibition in San Francisco, USA, titled Tradition and Change: Vietnamese Art Today.