“Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.”
::: Hans Hofmann :::

Hoa Le was born and grew up in Hanoi, Vietnam. She worked in Saigon as the General Manager of Vietnamese operations of an international company, headquartered in Texas. for several years before moving to the United States. She obtained her MBA degree from Washington State University in 2003, and is a BFA candidate at the University of Arizona.

Painting has been her passion since she was a little child. Her notebooks were usually filled with drawings. To earn a living, she became a businessperson, but in her spare time, she turned her heart and soul to art, her true passion. Painting helped her escape the roughness and indifference of the real world. For her, painting is a process of discovery and creation of a better world.

Moving to America has nurtured her dream to be an artist. Her art reveals her identity and traditions, and explores the merger between Eastern and Western culture. Through her art she expresses the struggle between hope and despair, loneliness and happiness, sadness and joy.