Thu Van Tran

Born 1979 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Lives and works in Paris, France

Education

2004
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, MFA
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts , Exhibition Practice Seminar

2001
Coubertin Foundry, Saint-Rémy Les-Chevreuses - Compagnons du Devoir

2000
Glasgow School of Art, Environmental Design Department, BA

Solo Exhibitions

2023
MAMAC, Nice, France 

2021
'Beyond the need for consolation', Almine Rech, Paris, France

2020
'Novel Without a Title', Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland  

2019
‘Trail Dust’, Almine Rech, Paris, France
Art Unlimited, Art Basel, Rudiger Schottle, Basel, Switzerland Rudiger Schottle Gallery, Munich, Germany
‘24h à Hanoi’, Le CREDAC, Ivry-sur-Seine, France

2018
‘Une Place au Soleil’, La Grande Place, Musée Cristal, Fondation Hermès, St Louis, France
‘Xe Dap Oi’, Vincom Center for Contemporary Art, Hanoi, Vietnam
‘Maidday’, Galerie Saint Sévérin, Paris, France

2017
‘Mountains Are Like The Bones of The Earth. Water Is its Blood’, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels, Belgium
‘The Blind Excuse’, Joseph Tang Gallery, Paris, France
Frieze New York, Meessen De Clercq, New York, USA

2016
‘Listen, The Darkness Deepens’, Ladera Oeste, Guadalajara, Mexico
‘From Stamping to Reading’, Macleay Museum, Sydney, Australia
‘Exchange of Presents’, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
‘Ecrire et Autre Eclats’, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France

2015
‘We Are This, and That, Aren’t We?’ Meessen De Clercq, Brussels, Belgium
‘Cao Su Pleure’, Espace Art et Essai, Rennes, France

2013
‘Rejections’, MEPIC - Musée Eclaté de la presqu’île de Caen, Caen, France
Statements, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
‘La Dix-Huitième Place’, Centre d’Art Villa du Parc, Annemasse, France
‘We Live in The Flicker’, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels, Belgium

2011
‘La Tache’, Galerie Martine Aboucaya, Paris, France

2010
‘Le Nombre Pur selon Duras’, La Maison Rouge - Le Patio, Paris, France

2009
‘Fahrenheit 451-Homme Livre Homme Livre’, 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

Group exhibitions

2023
'58th Carnegie International' , The Carnegie Museum of Art , Pittsburgh , USA 

2022
'Réclamer la terre', Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
'Color is Everything', Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn,  Germany 

2021
'Artistes à la Une Togeth'Her', Monnaie de Paris, Paris, France

2020
'Global(e) Resistance', MNAM Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
'Words at an Exhibition – an exhibition in ten chapters and five poems', Busan Biennale, Museum of Contemporary Art Busan (MOCA), Busan, Korea
‘Summer’, Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France

 

2019
Musée Niemeyer, Curitiba, Brazil
MUCEM, Marseille, France 
FIAC Projects, Petit Palais, Paris, France
MUCEM, Marseille, France
‘Ways of Seeing / Artists of the Prix Duchamp’, Bienalsur, National Museum of Decorative Art, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Curitiba International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Curitaba, Brazil
‘Where The Sea Remembers’, The Mistake Room, Los Angeles
‘A Rebrousse-Temps’, Musée Camille Claudel, Nogent-sur-Seine, France
‘A Day with Marie Vassilieff’, Maba - Fondation Rothschild, Nogent-sur-Marne, France
‘Anatomy of Political Melancholia’, Conservatoire of Athens, Athens, Greece
‘The Unwritten Library / After Babel’, Visual Arts Centre in Megaron, Athens, Greece

2018
Marcel Duchamp Prize , Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
FIAC Programmes, Petit Palais, Paris, France
‘Anatomy of Political Melancholia’, The Schwartz Foundation, Art Space Pythahorion, Samos, Greece
‘Cosmogonies’, MAMAC, Nice, France
‘Un Désir d’Archéologie’, Carré d’Art, Nîmes, France

2017
‘Entre Deux Infinis’, Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénéchou, Paris, France
‘Manipulate The World’, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
‘Montag or The Possible Libraries’, Frac Franche-Comté, France
‘Remember Lidice’, Lidice Museum, Lidice, Czech Republic
‘Viva Arte Viva’, 57th Venice Biennale,  The Arsenale, Venice, Italy
‘Jardin Infini. De Giverny à l’Amazonie’, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France

2016
‘La Timidité des Cimes’, Le Parvis, Tarbes, France
‘The Meurice Prize Exhibition’, The Meurice Hotel, Paris, France
‘A Brief History of The Future’ , Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy 
‘ANTHROPOCENE’, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels, Belgium

2015
‘Soudain...La Neige’, Maba - Fondation Rothschild, Nogent-Sur-Marne, France
‘Dévider le Réel’,  Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France
‘Remember Lidice’, Block Edition, Berlin, Germany
‘A Brief History of The Future’, Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Brussels,Belgium
‘Translation as A Negotiation’, The kunsthalle, Mulhouse, France

2014
‘Matérialisme Histérique’, Galerie Jerome Poggi, Paris, France
‘Le Corps Invisible’, Gerlie Edouard Manet, Gennevilliers, France
‘Sans titre (Je suis là)’, Galerie Jerome Poggi, Paris, France
‘Interprète’, Le Plateau, FRAC Île-de-France, France
‘Par Les Temps Qui Courent’ LiFE, Saint-Nazaire, France

2013
Vehbi Koc Fondation, Istanbul, Turkey
Nuit Blanche, Paris, France
‘The Unanswered Question’, Tanas Fondation/n.b.k. - Berlin, Germany

2012
‘L’Homme de Vitruve’, Le Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine, France
‘Twentieth to twentieth’, End of Century, New York, USA
‘Particles’, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels, Belgium

2011
‘Soudain Déjà’, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Paris, France
‘Au grenier quatre pièces de mémoire ‘, Musée Départemental d’Art Contemporain - Rochechouart, France

2010
Liste, Basel, Switzerland
‘All Over’, Galerie Martine Aboucaya, Paris, France
‘Le Carillon de Big Ben’, Le CREDAC, Ivry-sur-Seine, France

2009
‘Meeting You Halfway’, Galerie Martine Aboucaya, Paris, France
‘Phase Zéro’, Galerie Serge Aboukrat, Paris, France
‘Là Ou Je Suis N’existe Pas’, Lieu Commun, Le Printemprs de Septembre, Toulouse, France
‘Memory of Void’, Kimusa, Artsonje Center, Seoul, Korea

2007
‘Expériences Insulaires’, Le CREDAC, Ivry-sur-Seine, France

2006
‘Voir en Peinture’, La Générale, Paris, France

2005
‘Tolerate Me’, Galerie DAP, Warszawa, Poland
Galerie Hengevoss-Durkop, Hamburg

2004
‘Félicité’, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Paris, Paris, France
‘Première Vue’, Galerie du Passage Retz, Paris, France
‘Singles’, Galerie Pitch, Paris, France

Public Collections

MAC VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
FRAC Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France
MNAM, Musée National d’Art Moderne - Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France
Fondation Kadist, France/USA
MAC VAL, France
Lidice Memorial, Lidice, Czech Republic
FRAC Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse, France
The Strauss Collection, San Diego, USA
Vehbi Koc Foundation, Istanbul, Turkey
Pierluigi and Natalina Remotti Foundation, Camogli, Italy
FRAC Ile-de-France, France
Musée Departemental d’Art Contemporain, Rochechouart, France
Louvre Abu-Dhabi, Abu Dhabu, UAE
Fonds Municipal d’Art Contemporain de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France

 Selected publications

2020 
Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel 

2019 
‘Tié menteur’ Editions P, further to the research seminar Les Contemporains,
directed by Magali Nachtergael and Céline Flecheux
‘In the Chiaroscuro of Language’ A special Issue from Beaux-Arts Magazine,
Emmanuelle Lequeux, Caroline Ha Thuc, Magali Nachtergael, Marion Duquerroy,
Rahma Khazam, Pedro Morais, and an interview with Claire Le Restif
‘Art Unlimited’ catalog, Art Basel Edition
‘La Part de l’OEil’ n°32 - 2018/2019 Dossier : -’L’oeuvre d’art entre structure et
histoire’ et ‘Greimas et la sémiotique de l’image’

2018
‘Marcel Duchamp Prize’ Catalog of the 2018 edition, ADIAF
A fictional dialogue with Franz West written by Thu Van Tran, booklet from
Gallery Natalie Seroussi, Paris
‘Marguerite Duras and visual arts’ - Peter Lang Editions, in the collection
‘Marguerite Duras’ led by Christophe Meurée. Outcome the colloquium
Marguerite
Duras and visual arts’ in 2016 at Sydney University, led by Michelle Royer

2017 
‘Manipulate the World: Connecting Öyvind Fahlström’ Catalog of the group
show curated by Fredrik Liew and Goldin + Senneby at Moderna Museet, Stockholm
‘VIVA ARTE VIVA’, exhibition catalog, edited by the Venice Biennale, The 57th
International Exhibition
‘Jardin Infini, De Giverny à l’Amazonie’, exhibition catalog, edited by Centre
Pompidou Metz
2016 ‘A brief history of the future’, exhibition catalog, edited by the Royal Museums of
Fine Arts, Brussels

2015 
‘La Rouge’, exhibition catalog - Lendroit Edition, texts by Elvan Zabunyan, Eva
Barois De Caevel and Amanda de la Garza
‘Au plus profond du Noir”, a subjective translation of Joseph Conrad novel Heart
of Darkness

2014 
‘D’Emboutir à Lire’ - Contribution for the magazine Initiales - n°3 MD on Marguerite Duras

2013 
‘The unanswered question”, exhibition catalog, edited by TANAS / René Block edition
‘Nos lumières’ 2001-2013 - A monography by Meessen De Clercq Edition, text by Magali Nachtergael
‘Au plus profond du Noir’, a subjective translation of Joseph Conrad novel Heart of Darkness

2012 
’L’Homme de Vitruve’, exhibition catalogue, edited by Crédac, Claire Le restif

2011 
‘Soudain déjà’, exhibition catalogue, edited by Beaux-Arts de Paris, Hélène Meisel

2010 
‘J’aime beaucoup ce que vous faîtes’, contribution for the magazine
‘Le Dessein Collectif’, magazine *ROVEN* - n°2 autumn,Daphné Lesergent

2009 
‘Là où je suis n’existe pas’, contribution for the group show catalog, Le Printemps de Septembre

2007 
‘Expériences Insulaires’, magazine Semaines - n°61, Edited by Analogues

2006 
‘CI-ICAR’ - Exhibition catalog, edited by the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Mulhouse

Selected press

2019 
Nathalia Garcia, ‘A Ivry-sur-Seine, le Crédac porte haut la singularité artistique’,
94 Citoyens, May
‘Thu-Van Tran, 24 heures à Hanoi’, Arts Hebdo Médias, April
Annabel Osber, ‘Where the sea remembers’, Artforum
‘Thu Van Tran in the Chriaroscuro of language’, Beaux-Arts Magazine

2018 
Cédric Aurel, The Art Newspaper, October
Julie Dao Duy, Art Absolument issue, September
Interview with Cédric Aurel, The Art Newspaper, October
Julie Dao Duy, ‘Thu-Van Tran, le langage de l’oubli’, Art Absolument, September
Emmanuelle Lequeux, ‘Entretien avec Thu-Van Tran’, Beaux-Arts Magazine,
September
Emmanuelle Lequeux, ‘Thu-Van Tran et le caoutchouc’, Le Monde, August
Sophie Von Wunster, ‘Nominees Announced For The 2018 Marcel Duchamp
Prize’, Art Asia Pacific, March
Pedro Morais, ‘Prix Marcel Duchamp: une année cinéma’, Le Quotidien de l’Art,
March

2017 
Emmanuelle Lequeux, ‘A la Fiac, de l’étrangeté mais peu d’horizon’, Le Monde,
October
Emmanuelle Lequeux, ‘Nos artists coups de coeur’, Beaux Arts Magazine, October
Marina Garcia-Vasquez, ‘9 Breakout Artists from the Venice Biennale’, Creators,
August
Jane Morris, Javier Pes, ‘Reinventing The World: Vennice Biennale gives older
and lesser-known artists their due’, The Art Newspaper, May
Philippe Régnier, ‘Christine Marcel réenchante la Biennale de Venise’, Le
Quotidien de l’Art, May
Yung Ma, ‘Looking Forward: Yung Ma’, Frieze
Roxana Azimi, ‘Puissante Amazonie’, Le Monde Magazine

2016 
Maria Minero, ‘Luz transitoria’, El Pais
Jo-ey Tang, ‘Raw Material/Raw Material in the Broad Day Light/Broad Daylight
on Thu-Van Tran’, Issue 41, Fall

2015 
Amanda de la Garza, ‘Thu-Van Tran’, Codigo, February/March
JT Regional Alsace-Lorraine, France 3, February
Caophong Pham, ‘interview and report on the artistic direction of Duras song
shown at Centre George Pompidou’, BBC vitenam, February

2014 
Philippe Lançon, ‘Duras, un écrivain pur Song’, Libération, October
Emmanuelle Lequeux, ‘En route pour la gloire’, Beaux-Arts Magazine, October
Cédric Aurelle, ‘Du “No future” au “No past” une fusion entre nature et culture
sur (OFF)ICIELLE’, Le Quotidien de l’Art, October
Marie-Christine Sentenac, ‘reportage culture box, France 2, October

2011 
Damien Sausset, ‘Thu-Van Tran, la nature à l’oeuvre’, Connaissance des Arts,
November
Magali Nachtergael, ‘Art conteporain et écriture: la “new literature”?’, L’Art même
Lillian Davies, ‘Thu-Van Tran’, ArtForum
Frédéric Bonnet, ‘ Multiplicité d’une époque’, Le journal des arts, November

2010 
Marc Lenot, ‘Entre gui parasite et l’amour victorieux, une courbure dans la
trajectoire de la lumière’, Lunettes rouges,Le Monde, March

2009 
Marc Lenot, ‘M.Duras, Billancourt, et le nombre pur’, Lunettes rouges, Le
Monde, Februay
Sarah Ihler-Meyer, ‘Meeting you half way’, Artparis, December
Christian Gattinoni, ‘Printemps de septembre. Dialogue de dessins, vidéos,
sculpture et dualectique critique’, La critique, October
Marc Lenot, ‘Les quatuors de Christian Bernard’, Lunettes rouges, Le Monde,
October

2008 
Daphné Lesergent, ‘Fahrenheit 451, Homme livre Homme libre’, La Critique, Paril

2007 
Marc Lenot, ‘Fahrenheit 451 à Bétonsalon’, Lunettes Rouges, Le Monde, February

2006 
Juliette Soulez, ‘La possibilité d’un île’, Archistorm, Summer
Garance Chabert, ‘Expériences insulaires’, Art21 n°12, Spring
David Samson, ‘La culture de l’alternative’, Mouvement
Daphné Lesergent, ‘Les faux-semblants de l’héritage formaliste’, La Critique, April