He studied at the prestigious Hanoi Fine Arts University from 1993 to 1998 and is now a leading figure in the “2 + 3” art group which, like the “Gang of Five” in the 1990s, represents some of the best young artists in Vietnam. Hoang Hai Anh’s nudes are painted with passion in strong colours and vigorous brush strokes of thick paint. His style has a raw intensity, rejecting the decorative and instead using art as a powerful expressive medium.