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Biography
Thu Van Tran (born in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 1979) is an artist. She lives and works in Paris, France.
Works
Tran's work has been characterised by literature, architecture and history. Her birth country, Vietnam – a former French colony – and her homeland France bring her to think and work with duality, inequality and instability as structural elements of her practice. Her work takes form of semantic or sculptural compositions that are placed in contemplative and discursive fields.
In 2016 Tran is showing a solo exhibition at les Abattoirs, FRAC Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse (France), besides having her first solo exhibition in Germany at the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin (Germany) and a solo exhibition at the Macleay Museum in Sydney (Australia). She prepared an exhibition in 2017 at the Kunsthalle São Paulo in Brazil.
Solo exhibitions
2017
- Kunsthalle São Paulo, São Paulo (Brasil)
2016
- From stamping to reading, Macleay Museum, Sydney (Australia) upcoming
- Echange de présents, Curated by Marius Babias, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin (Germany)
- Ecrire et autres Eclats, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse (France)
2015
- We are this and that aren't we?, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels (Belgium)
- Cao su pleure, Galerie Art et Essai, Rennes (France)
2013
- Statements, Meessen De Clercq, Art Basel, Basel (Switzerland)
- La dix-huitième place, curated by Garance Chabert, Centre d'Art Villa du Parc, Annemasse (France)
2012
- We Live in the Flicker, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels (Belgium)
2011
- La Tache, Galerie Martine Aboucaya, Paris (France)
2010
- Le Nombre Pur selon Duras, curated by Marc Lenot, La Maison Rouge-Le Patio, Paris (France)
2009
- Fahrenheit 451-Homme Livre Homme Livre, curated by Mélanie Bouteloup, Bétonsalon-Centre d'Art et de Recherche, Paris (France)
2007
- Thu Van Tran, L'Espace -Centre Culturel Français de Hanoi, Hanoi (Vietnam)
2006
- Lumière Arrière, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Mulhouse, Mulhouse (France)