Hoi Lebadang was a Vietnamese-born French artist born in 1921 in Bich-La-Dong, Vietnam.  He is best known for his densely textured mixed-media paintings on molded pasteboard, limestone, and pigment on burlap or canvas surfaces. Lebandang’s work often depicts forms of landscapes, horses, floral imagery, Vietnamese villages, and other subjects, working with abstract as well as more defined images. Lebadang emigrated to Paris in 1939 where he fought in the French Resistance Army against the Nazi invasion. He was subsequently captured and held in a prison camp, eventually being released and going on to study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. By 1950 the Paris art community had recognized Lebadang’s work, appreciating the blend of European and Far Eastern culture and philosophies reflected in it. The director of the Far Eastern Department at UNESCO commissioned him to illustrate a book of poetry, published by Editions Euros. Today, Lebadang’s works are in the collections of the Cincinnati Museum of Art, the Rockefeller Collection in New York, and the Phoenix Museum of Art, among others. Lebadangon died on March 8, 2015, in Paris, France.