Hoa Le was born and grew up in Hanoi, Vietnam. She worked for many years in Saigon as the General Manager of the Vietnamese operations of a multinational pharmaceutical company before moving to the United States. She obtained her MBA degree from Washington State University in 2003, and is a BFA candidate at the University of Arizona.  

Painting has been her passion since she was a little child. Her notebooks were usually filled with drawings. To earn a living, she became a businessperson, but in her spare time, she turned her heart and soul to art, her true passion. Painting helped her escape the roughness and indifference of the business world.  For her, painting is a process of discovery and creation of a better world. Moving to America rekindled her dream to be an artist.