Nguyễn Văn Cường, born in 1972 in Thái Bình, hailed from a family where his mother served as a mechanical cooperative worker and his father as a local commune official. Between 1991 and 1996, he studied Painting at Hanoi University of Fine Arts. He emerged as a pivotal figure in the Hanoi Trio, alongside Nguyễn Minh Thành and Nguyễn Quang Huy, pioneering contemporary art in the 1990s and 2000s. His artistic practice spans painting, performance, installation, and experimental music. Cuong's paintings ingeniously blend caricature, Pop Art, combining propaganda motifs and the visual aesthetics of Dao worship paintings. These compositions reflect his profound reflections on the evolving landscape of Vietnamese society from the subsidy to Đổi Mới periods. In his performances, Cường masterfully combines elements of early experimental theater, eschewing scripts in favor of multimedia expressions, encompassing sound, light, and body language to evoke poignant metaphors extracted from societal realities. His experimental music endeavors serve as a convergence point between traditional melodies and Western musical trends prevalent in Vietnam during that era, including Pop, Rock, and Metal.