Anh Trần is a New Zealand-Vietnamese artist. From 2020-2022, Trần was in residence at Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunst, Amsterdam. Her 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.
Trần has exhibited at the Auckland Art Gallery as part of Aotearoa Contemporary, the 58th Carnegie International, the 8th Biennale of Painting at Museum Dhondt Dhaenens, Museum de Fundatie, Artspace Aotearoa and various galleries across Europe and the US.
1989, Bến Tre, Vietnam
Lives and works in Amsterdam, NL and Berlin, DE
Education
2021-2022 Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
2016 Master of Fine Arts Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, NZ
Solo Exhibitions
2024
Art Basel Parcours, Kirche St. Clara, Basel, CH
2023
MCMLXXXIX, Société, Berlin, DE
Et puis, un jour, mon amour, tu sors de l’éternité, Fitzpatrick Gallery, Paris, FR
2022
Let us run, Plymouth Rock, Zürich, CH
Now that we have settled by the water’s edge, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, NL
2017
Project 038: Anh Tran – An exhibition on K Road, Corner window gallery Auckland, NZ
Group Exhibitions
2024
Alchemists, Pond Society, Shanghai, CN
On Ma, Pedro Cera, Lisbon, PT (curated by Brandy Carstens)
Aotearoa Contemporary, Auckland Art Gallery, NZ
2023
Soul Mapping, Zeno X, Antwerp, BEFleshing Out The Ghost, Deborah Schamoni, Munich, DE
Some Landscapes, Bortolami, New York, USA
Brave New World, Museum de Fundatie, NL
2022
Is it morning for you yet? 58th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, US
The ‘t’ is silent, Painting Biennale, Museum Dhondt Dhaenens, Deurle, BE (curated by Gabi Ngcobo & Oscar Murillo)
Open Studios, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
2021
Open Studios – Amsterdam Art Week 2021, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
2017
A trip to the beach, play_station, Wellington, NZ
