Huy was born in 1971 in Ha Tay, North Vietnam. Together with Nguyen Minh Thanh and Nguyen Van Cuong, Huy is the member of a talented trio emerging out of the Hanoi Fina Arts University in the mid 90’s. Huy started with painting, exquisite works offering glimpses of his thoughts, memories and dreams. The works spoken of his personal experience, characterized by dreamlike juxtapositions of Buddha silhouettes and full lips and bare breasted women with illegible spiraling script floating across the paper.

Recently, he moved to use video, creating works of social engagement. He filmed a homeless person in his sleep, which reminds of the famous work “Sleep” of Andy Warhol. With a Nguyen Minh Thanh’s poem, he created “Unknown women”, a moving, poetic video honoring Vietnamese women.
 
“Women, whose names I do not know, whose circumstances I have not learned
Women, whose energy and creativity I have absorbed
Women I have met and now honour
To them I give my gratitude.”
(“Unknown women“, Nguyen Quang Huy, 2005)