Tran Gia Tung is native from Hue but was born and raised up in Hanoi. He has studied Fine Art at the Hanoi Academy of Theatre and Cinema and Design at the University of Industrial Fine Art before becoming a professional painter. Tran Gia Tung's paintings goes on the boundary between realism and abtract. He consisders "Living is an experience and painting is the distillation of that experience."