Martin Vuong is an emerging artist based in Ottawa who specializes in oil painting portraits. His works examine the relationships of his heritage and community. In exploring this area, Vuong references history, language, and culture humanizing these concepts with personal memories and figures. By pairing these abstract concepts with concrete figures, Vuong visually narrates stories that have long gone unheard. In order to capture such concepts in his surreal portraits, Vuong uses found images from various moments in time, along with written or spoken historic accounts.