The Director of the Lac Hong Art Gallery, Ms. Diep comes from a family of scholastic background in Ha Noi. An important part of her family tradition is the love for the arts, particularly the domains of collecting and dealing of paintings and other forms of art works. Endowed with a dynamic and sensitive nature, as well as an aptitude of the aesthetics and a passion for paintings, Ms. Diep’s nature led her to the art gallery.

Owning an art gallery on Dong Khoi Street since 1989, Ms. Diep counts amongst her own precious collection works by master painters as well as well-known contemporary Vietnamese artists. Since 1997, Ms. Diep’s Lac Hong Art Gallery has moved to a new location. It now located inside the Ho Chi Minh City Art Museum.

The Lac Hong Art Gallery has participated in the following international expositions:

• April 1993: International Art Fair Palexpo in Geneva, Switzerland.

• September/October 1994: The Fourth Australian Contemporary Art Fair in Melbourne, Australia.

• May 1995: The Asian Contemporary Art Exhibition in Hong Kong.

• 1996: The Vietnamese Contemporary Art Exhibition Mekong 96, organized at the Galerie de Bellens in Geneva, Switzerland.

• October 1999: The Joint Exhibition of Chinese-Vietnamese Oil Paintings, organized at Asia Artists Gallery in Singapore.

• November 2000:  Solo exhibition of Vietnamese painter Hoai Huong’s works, organized with the Asia Artists Gallery in Singapore.

• May 2002: "Africa Meets Asia" Exhibition at Shamwari Gallery in Oakland, USA

• July 2002: Exhibition at the Cathedral Hill Hotel in San Francisco, USA, with the "Bridging Two Cultures" program held by the San Francisco - Ho Chi Minh City Sister City Committee.

• Oct 29/2007- Nov 11/2007: Exhibition "A sense of space" of two artists Nguyen Thanh Binh and Nguyen Dieu Thuy at Mall Gallery in London, U.K.

At the present time, Lac Hong Art Gallery is developing a number of projects aimed at organizing exhibitions for various groups of Vietnamese artists.