Thu Van TRAN
Thu Van Tran was born in 1979 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. She lives and works in Paris, France. Thu-Van Tran, a major figure on the French art scene, now enjoys international recognition. In 2017, she distinguished herself with a remarkable installation at the Venice Biennale. In 2018, she was nominated for the Marcel Duchamp Prize, and in 2022 completed a major site-specific commission at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum of Art. Most recently, she was exhibited at the Bourse de Commerce, Pinault Collection. Over the past twenty years, Thu-Van Tran has developed a wideranging body of work, whose cosmic dimension is evident in her sculptural installations, monumental frescoes and filmed narratives. Whether through their color, form or innate drama, the milieus in which the artist immerses her audience are invariably built on the basis of a political language whose strength lies in its poetry. As an avid and eclectic reader of Marguerite Duras and Albert Camus as well as Philip Roth and science-fiction authors as the subjective translator of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1899), as a mystical pilgrim to the Temple of Literature in Hanoi, and as en attentive reader of Vietnamese literature, including poems by Ho Chi Minh and novels by Duong Thu Huong, Thu-Van Tran continues to affirm the transformative and emancipatory power of language. The artist has constructed her sculpted, painted and filmed oeuvre on the framework of texte that she has written or borrowed, transcribed or verbalized, and she admits that “the starting point in [her] work is often a semantic utterance. Works by Thu Van Tran currently feature in several local and international public collections, such as the prestigious Collection of the MNAM, Musée National d’Art Moderne - Centre Georges Pompidou (France), the Collection of Frac-Île de France (France), the Fondation Louis Vuitton (France), Pinault Foundation (France), Beaux-Arts Paris (France), the Museum of the Louvre AbuDhabi (United Arab Emirates) and the Collection of the Fondation Kadist (France / United-States).
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Centre national des arts plastiques
2023
Fais que ton rêve soit plus long que la nuit
Musée d'art contemporain de la Haute-Vienne, château de Rochechouart • Rochechouart
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2021
La Photographie à l'épreuve de l'abstraction
Exposition collective [Prolongations]
Centre photographique d’Île-de-France • Pontault-Combault
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2020
La Photographie à l'épreuve de l'abstraction
Exposition collective [Prolongations]
Centre photographique d’Île-de-France • Pontault-Combault
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2019
2017
La timidité des cimes
Cécile BEAU, Hicham BERRADA, Charlotte CHABONNEL, Julian CHARRIERE, Mavgali DANIAUX & Cédric PIGOT, Edith DEKYNDT, Lucy + Jorge ORTA, Evariste RICHER, Thu Van TRAN, Maarten VANDEN EYNDE
Le Parvis • Ibos
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2016
La timidité des cimes
Cécile BEAU, Hicham BERRADA, Charlotte CHABONNEL, Julian CHARRIERE, Mavgali DANIAUX & Cédric PIGOT, Edith DEKYNDT, Lucy + Jorge ORTA, Evariste RICHER, Thu Van TRAN, Maarten VANDEN EYNDE
Le Parvis • Ibos
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2015
Presque la même chose
La Kunsthalle Mulhouse, Centre d’art contemporain d’intérêt national • Mulhouse
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2014
2013
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