Dinh Thi Tham Poong is a contemporary Vietnamese artist whose paintings are influenced by her Muong heritage. Her detailed watercolors incorporate surrealistic elements into portrayals of the relationship between humans and the natural world. “To my mind everything has two distinct halves. Everything contains, holds each other, is intertwined with each other.” Women and nature intermingle and merge in scenes simultaneously real and surreal. Born in 1970 in Lai Chau, Vietnam, she studied at the Hanoi Fine Arts College. Tham Poong was awarded first prize for the Minority Artists Exhibition in 1993. The artist currently lives and works in Hanoi, Vietnam. Her works are in the collections of the Singapore Art Museum, the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum in Japan, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.