{"id":10541,"date":"2012-01-17T12:18:25","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T20:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dvan.org\/?p=10541"},"modified":"2018-10-14T22:02:03","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T05:02:03","slug":"obituary-dr-boitran-huynh-beattie-1957-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dvan.org\/2012\/01\/obituary-dr-boitran-huynh-beattie-1957-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Obituary: Dr. Boitran Huynh-Beattie (1957-2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Dr. Boitran Huynh-Beattie, a leading Vietnamese art historian and guest writer for diaCRITICS, has passed away. diaCRITIC Nora Taylor contributes this obituary.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dvan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/u10799_t1325835240_swugz.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10547\" title=\"u10799_t1325835240_swugz\" src=\"https:\/\/dvan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/u10799_t1325835240_swugz-300x273.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dvan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/u10799_t1325835240_swugz-300x273.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dvan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/u10799_t1325835240_swugz.jpeg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am sad to report of the passing of Dr. Boitran Huynh-Beattie. Born in 1957, among the few art historians of Vietnam, Boitran started her career as a teacher at Dong Nai College of Fine Arts. She then received her PhD in Art History at the University of Sydney in 2005. Titled &#8220;Vietnamese Aesthetics from 1925 onwards,&#8221; and supervised by Dr. John Clark, it contained the first comprehensive study of artists in South Vietnam between 1954 and 1975. Her dissertation can be read <a href=\"http:\/\/ses.library.usyd.edu.au\/handle\/2123\/633\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Boitran continued to pursue research and curatorial projectes pertaining to Vietnamese modern and contemporary art including &#8220;Nam Bang!&#8221; at Casula Powerhouse in 2009. She was also an adviser to the Singapore Art Museum, Post-Vidai in Ho Chi Minh City and co-author of an upcoming monograph on Nguyen Trung. Her passing is a terrible loss to the fields of Vietnamese studies and Vietnamese art history.<\/p>\n<p>Her contributions to diaCRITICS include this review of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dvan.org\/2011\/a-book-launch-in-australia-%E2%80%94-carina-hoangs-boat-people\" target=\"_blank\">Carina Hoang&#8217;s Boat People<\/a>, this essay on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dvan.org\/2010\/the-exhibition-of-realism-in-asian-art-and-the-symposium-avant-garde-in-asian-art-in-seoul\" target=\"_blank\">realism and the avant-garde in Asian art<\/a>, this review of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dvan.org\/2011\/khue-nguyen-%E2%80%94-a-naked-star\" target=\"_blank\">artist Khue Nguyen<\/a>, and this review of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dvan.org\/2011\/erasure-by-dinh-q-le-at-sherman-contemporary-art-foundation-in-australia\" target=\"_blank\">artist Dinh Q. L\u00ea<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She was a close colleague of mine. Aside from being a wonderfully caring person, a mother and recently a grandmother, she was also extremely dedicated to Vietnamese art. The field will not be the same without her. She is survived by her husband, Ray Beattie and a son, daughter and grandchild.<\/p>\n<p>Nora Taylor<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Boitran Huynh-Beattie, a leading Vietnamese art historian and guest writer for diaCRITICS, has passed away. diaCRITIC Nora Taylor contributes this obituary. I am sad to report of the passing of Dr. Boitran Huynh-Beattie. 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