Anh Trần

Anh Trần (b. 1989, Bến Tre, Vietnam) lives and works in Berlin. Trần’s painting experimentations consist of immersive representations, operating autobiographically within her own displacements. From her departure to Europe from Vietnam, after a decade spent in New Zealand, she developed abstraction as a response to historical academic restrictions - structured around Socialist Realism – by encompassing bold brushstrokes, expressive colors, layers, impasto, and collage. While living a diasporic experience, her aesthetic language underlines her interest in the linguistic differences between Western and South-Eastern countries’ artistic methods, in their closeness to situated political strategies. She earned an MFA from the Elam School of Fine Arts, The University of Auckland, and is a former Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten resident, in Amsterdam. Anh Tran's work was recently exhibited at the Auckland Art Gallery as part of Aotearoa Contemporary . She has had solo shows at Fitzpatrick Gallery, Paris; Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam; and participated in group exhibitions at Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp; Deborah Schamoni, Munich; Bortolami Gallery, New York; Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; and Museum Dhondt Dhaenens, Deurle. Anh Trần is part of a number of public collections including Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand; Boros Collection, Berlin; MAXXI Museum, Rome; Pond Society, Shanghai; Tanoto Art Foundation, Singapore; Centraal Museum, Utrech.