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
2024
'Write as the Beasts Cry at Night', La Loge, Brussels, Belgium,
'In spring, ghosts return', Almine Rech, New York, NY, US
2023
'Nous vivons dans l'éclat', MAMAC, Nice, France
'58th Carnegie International', Pittsburgh, PA, US
2021
'Beyond the need for consolation', Almine Rech, Paris, France
2020
'Novel Without a Title', Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland
'Trail Dust', Almine Rech, Paris, France
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, NY, US
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
2025
'Fire', Fondation Boghossian, Brussels, Belgium
'VERTIGO', Fondation Carmignac, Hyères, France
2024
'Tongues of Fire', Kunsthalle Trondheim, Norway
Art Basel Hong Kong, Almine Rech, Hong Kong, China
Art Brussels, Almine Rech, Brussels, Belgium
Art Paris, Almine Rech, Paris, France
Art Dubai, Almine Rech, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
artgeneve, Almine Rech, Geneva, Switzerland
Ceramic Brussels, Almine Rech, Brussels, Belgium
'Nature's Reflections', Almine Rech Monaco, Monaco
'Monaco Opening Show', Almine Rech Monaco, Monaco
'Porter notre part de la nuit', MAC VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
'Gesture & Form: Women in Abstraction’, Almine Rech New York, Upper East Side, NY, US
2023
'58th Carnegie International' , The Carnegie Museum of Art , Pittsburgh , US
'Avant l'Orage', La Bourse de Commerce - Fondation Pinault, Paris, France
ART SG, Almine Rech, Singapore
Tokyo Gendai, Almine Rech, Tokyo, Japan
artmonte-carlo, Almine Rech, Monaco
artgeneve, Almine Rech, Geneva, Switzerland
Paris + par Art Basel, Almine Rech, Basel, Switzerland
'The Memory Palace. Focus on the French art scene with the Marcel Duchamp Prize', Dacia-România, Bucarest, Romania
2022
'Réclamer la terre', Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
'Color is Everything', Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany
'Global(e) Resistance', Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
'Les militantes, Fondation Guerlain', Paris, France
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, 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, NY, US
'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, Germany
2004
'Félicité', Palais des Beaux-Arts de Paris, Paris, France
'Première Vue', Galerie du Passage Retz, Paris, France
'Singles', Galerie Pitch, Paris, France
Curating and Artistic Direction
2014
'Duras Song', an exhibition concerning Marguerite Duras archives activated in an installation by Thu Van Tran and curated with Jean-Max Colard, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2006
'Hradacany', curated with Yann Chateigné, La Générale, Paris, France
Residencies
2025
Villa Medici, Rome, Italy
2022
The Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA) residency, Melbourne, Australia
2018
Time Museum, Guangzhou, China - Curated by Nikita Yingqian Cai
2016
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein Residency, Berlin, Germany
2014
Capacete, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2012
Hors les Murs, Institut Français, New York, NY, US
2010
La Fabrik, grant of the city of Burgdorf, Bern, Switzerland
2009
Seoul Art Space, Geumcheon, South Korea
2007/2008
Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
Grants and Prizes
2025
Short listed for the Her Art Prize, France
2023
Rosa Schapire Art Prize, Freunde der Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
2018
Production allowance, Fondation Nationale des Arts Graphique et Plastique, France
Production allowance, Fondation Rotshild grant, France
2016
Short listed for The Meurice Prize for Contemporary Art, The Meurice Hotel, France
2013
Production allowance, Fondation Nationale des Arts Graphique et Plastique, France
2010
Installation allowance, Drac Ile-de-France, France
2009
Finalist Audi Talents Awards, Paris, France
Individual creation allowance, Drac Ile-de-France, France
Support of the Amis de la Maison Rouge - Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris, France
2008
Exhibition allowance, Département des Affaires Culturelles de la Ville de Paris, France
2006
Individual creation allowance, Drac Ile-de-France, France
2005
Installation allowance, Drac Ile-de-France, France
Laureate Mulhouse 05 Prize, participation proposed by Henry-Claude Cousseau, Mulhouse, France
2004
Project allowance, Département des Affaires Culturelles de la Ville de Paris, France
Public Collections
Collection Pinault, Paris, France and Venice, Italy
Carnegie Museum of Art (CMOA), Pittsburgh, PA, US
Museum of the Louvre Abu-Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Commission by the Centre Georges Pompidou for the realization of works for the Children’s museum
Queensland Art Gallery, Australia
MNAM - Centre Georges Pompidou Paris, France
Fondation Louis Vuitton, France
Frac Franche-Comté, France
Frac Île de France, France
Frac Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse, France
Frac Normandie, France
Frac Rhône-Alpes, France
Kadist Foundation, France/US
Fonds Municipal d’Art Contemporain de la Ville de Paris, France
MAC VAL, France
Musée Départemental d’Art Contemporain, Rochechouart, France
Lidice Memorial, Lidice, Czech Republic
Josée and Marc Gensollen, Marseille, France
Winner of the public commission, Conseil Général of Seine Saint Denis, France
Iris and Matthew Strauss, San Diego, CA, US
Vehbi Koc Foundation, Istanbul, Turkey
Sanders, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Pierluigi and Natalina Remotti Foundation, Camogli, Italy
Thibault Poutrel, Paris, France) and London, UK
Public commission for the multimedia library of the city of Poissy, France
