Ha Tri Hieu, a member of the Doi Moi 'Gang of 5' artist's group, celebrates the beauty and simplicity of rural life in his works, using simplified representational forms against a flattened pictorial space. The Gang of 5 also lists Tran Luong, Viet Dung, Dang Xuan Hoa and Pham Quang Vinh. He graduated from the Hanoi Industrial Fine Arts College in 1983 and staged his first three solos in Hanoi – Red River Gallery (1996), Mai Gallery (1998) and Art Vietnam Gallery (2008) before the 2012 solo titled Flower at the Eight Gallery in Ho Chi Minh City in 2012. His major international group exhibitions include Vietnam Express (Norway, 1998), Vietnamese Identity (Melbourne, Australia, 2000 and 2001), and in National Gallery Singapore.