GALLERY BIOGRAPHY COMMISSION PORTRAIT PAINTING CONTACT HOME Thien-Kim was born in South Vietnam. She studied Piano in the Saigon Conservatory. While pursuing her music carreer, Thien-Kim took several art classes and worked with silk painting as a hobby. Upon her arrival in the United Stated in 1991, she followed her dream of becoming an artist and studied art at the Massachussetts College of Art in Boston, graduating in 1997 with a BFA in Graphic Design. Following a career as a graphic designer, in 2004, Thien-Kim decided to become a full-time artist. She won several awards in the region. Her "HONEY MOON" painting was published in International Artist's 2005 edition of "One Hundred Ways to Paint People and Figures". Thien-Kim favorite subjects are plein-air landscape, figure and portrait paintings as she enjoys capturing the beauty of nature and the characters and complexity of the human form. She attributes the majority of her knowledge to the teachings of Master Painters Jill Carver, Robert Liberace and Sara Linda Poly. Thien-Kim lives in Silver Spring, Maryland with her husband Peter, daughter Lisa and their dog Brandy and parakeet Kiteyotee. COLLECTIONS: Janet Smedley, Lititz, PA Jane Harrelson, Silver Spring, MD Khoi and Qui Mai, Boyds, MD Tuan and Tina Nguyen Khoa, Urbana, MD Huyen and Binh Pham, Quebec, Canada Tina Pham, Bethesda, MD Tu Thien Pham, Paris, France Phuong and Tuan Pham, Boyds, MD Quincy Nguyen, Sterling, VA Tram and Vu Nguyen, Ottawa, Canada Mark Randall, Easton, MD Thomas and Marjorie Ruhf, Silver Spring, MD Joann Vaughan, Annapolis, MD Gail Yano, Potomac, MD AWARDS: JUROR CHOICE AWARD, Summer Juried Member Show, The Maryland Federation of Art, 2011 BEST IN SHOW-SIGSBEE GILHAM AWARD, October Juried Member Show, The Art League, VA, October 2010 CARUSO AWARD for Figure, Fall Juried Member Show, The Maryland Federation of Art, 2010 CARUSO AWARD for Portraiture, Summer Juried Member Show, The Maryland Federation of Art, 2010 3rd PLACE, Spring Juried Member Show, The Maryland Federation of Art, May 2010 HONORABLE MENTION, May Juried Member Show, The Art League, VA, May 2010 HONORABLE MENTION, Member Juried Show, Laurel Art League 2004 PUBLICATIONS: The International Artist Book, "One Hundred Ways to Paint People and Figure", 1/05