THU VAN TRAN
Born in Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) in 1979. Lives and works in Paris (France).
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
Rüdiger Schöttle gallery, Munich (Germany) upcoming
24h à Hanoi, Le CREDAC, Ivry-sur-Seine (FR) Curated by Claire Lerestif - upcoming
2018
Une place au soleil, La Grande Place, Musée Du Cristal, Fondation Hermès, St Louis (France) Curated by Marie Colette
Xe Dap Oi, VCCA (Vincom Center for Contemporary Art) Hanoi (Vietnam) Curated by Mizuki Endo, upcoming
SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin (Germany) Curated by Lynhan Balatbat and Marleen Schröde, upcoming
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) with Marieta Chirulescu
Solo show with Meessen De Clercq, Frieze New York, New York (USA)
2016
Listen, the Darkness Deepens, Ladera Oeste, Guadalajara (Mexico)
From stamping to reading, Macleay Museum, Sydney (Australia)
Echange de présents, Curated by Marius Babias, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin (Germany)
Ecrire et autres Eclats, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse (France)
2015
We are this and that aren't we?, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels (Belgium)
Cao su pleure, Galerie Art et Essai, Rennes (France)
2013
Statements, Art Basel, Basel (Switzerland)
La dix-huitième place, curated by Garance Chabert, Centre d'Art Villa du Parc, Annemasse (France)
2012
We live in the flicker, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels (Belgium)
2011
La Tache, Galerie Martine Aboucaya, Paris (France)
2010
Le Nombre Pur selon Duras, curated by Marc Lenot, 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
2018
The Unwritten Library / After Babel, Visual Arts Centre in Megaron, Athens (Greece) Curated by Anna Kafetsi - upcoming
Marcel Duchamp Prize, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (France)
The Unending Gift , Meessen De Clercq, Brussels (Belgium)
West World, with Franz West, Galerie Natalie Seroussi, Paris (France)
Cosmogonies, au gré des éléments, curated by Hélène Guenin, MAMAC, Nice (France)
Un désir d'Archéologie, curated by Jean-Marc Prévost, Carré d’Art, Nîmes (France)
2017
Still Life, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich (Germany)
Manipulate the world, curated by Fredrik Liew, Simon Goldin and Jakob Senneby, Moderna Museet, Stockholm (Sweden)
Montag or the possible libraries, curated by Patrice Joly, Frac Franche-Comté (France)
The Walk, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels (Belgium)
Ostranénie !, ENSAPC YGREC, Paris (France)
Viva arte viva, 57th Biennale di Venezia, Venice (Italy)
Jardin infini, De Giverny à l'Amazonie, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz (France)
2016
Prix Meurice 2016, Le Meurice, Paris (France)
La timidité des cimes, Le Parvis, Tarbes (France)
Remember Lidice, Lidice Museum, Lidice (Czech Republic)
2015
A.N.T.H.R.O.P.O.C.E.N.E, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels (Belgium)
Soudain…la neige, Maison d’Art Bernard Anthonioz, Nogent-sur-Marne (France)
Dévider le réel, FRAC Midi-Pyrénées, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse (France)
A Brief History of the Future, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels (Belgium)
Presque la même chose, curated by Sandrine Wymann, Kunsthalle, Mulhouse (France)
2014
Matérialisme histérique, curated by Société Réaliste, Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris (France)
Le corps invisible, Galerie Édouard Manet, Gennevilliers (France)
Sans titre (Je suis là), curated by Lionel Balouin, Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris (France)
Saint Jerome, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels (Belgium)
Interprète, curated by Xavier Franceschi, FRAC Ile-de-France, Paris (France)
Nuit Blanche, curated by Daphné Lesergent, Espace des Arts sans frontière, Paris (France)
2013
The Unanswered Question, curated by René Block, TANAS, Berlin (Germany)
Le Musée éclaté de la Presqu’Île de Caen, curated by Eric Degoutte, Le Mépic, Saint Aubin d’Arquenay (France)
2012
L'Homme de Vitruve, curated by Claire Le Restif, Le Crédac -Centre d’Art d’Ivry-sur-Seine (France)
Twentieth to twentieth, curated by Joseph Tang, End of Century Gallery, New York (USA)
Particles, Meessen De Clercq, Bruxelles (Belgium)
2011
Soudain déjà, curated by Guillaume Désanges, Beaux-Arts de Paris, Paris (France)
Au grenier quatre pièces de mémoire, curated by Olivier Michelon, Musée Départemental d'Art Contemporain de Rochechouart, Rochechouart (France)
2010
All Over, Galerie Martine Aboucaya, Paris (France)
Le Carillon de Big Ben, curated by Claire Le Restif, Le Crédac -Centre d’Art d’Ivry-sur-Seine, Ivry-sur-Seine (France)
2009
Meeting you half way, Galerie Martine Aboucaya, Paris (France)
Phase Zéro, Galerie Serge Aboukrat, Paris (France)
Là où je suis n’existe pas, curated by Christian Bernard, Le Printemps de Septembre à Toulouse -Lieu Commun, Toulouse (France)
Memory of void, proposal by the Artsonje Center and curated by Nathalie Viot, Kimusa, Séoul, (South Korea)
2007
Expérience Insulaires, curated by Jean-Paul Felley and Olivier Kaeser, Le Crédac -Centre d’Art d’Ivry-sur-Seine, Ivry-sur-Seine (France)
2006
Voir en peinture 2, curated by Éric Corne, La Générale, Paris (France)
Tolerate me, Galerie DAP, Warszawa (Poland)
2005
Galerie Hengevoss-Durkop, Hamburg (Germany)
2004
Félicité, curated by Maria de Coral and Éric Corne, Beaux-Arts de Paris, Paris (France)
Première Vue, curated by Michel Nuridsany, Galerie du Passage de Retz, Paris (France)
Singles, curated by Christian Bernard, 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 Georges Pompidou - BPI, Paris (France)
2006
Hradacany, curated with Yann Chateigné, La Générale, Paris (France)
PUBLIC ACQUISITIONS
2015
Collection of Les Abattoirs - Musée d'art moderne et contemporaine and Frac Midi-Pyrénées
2011
Collection of Musée Départemental d'Art Contemporain de Rochechouart, Rochechouart (France)
Commission by the Centre Georges Pompidou for the realization of works for the Children’s Museum of the Louvre Abu-Dhabi, Abu-Dhabi (United Emirates)
2010
Collection of the Fond Municipal d’Art Contemporain de la Ville de Paris, Paris (France)
2008
Public commission for the multimedia library of the city of Poissy, Poissy (France)
RESIDENCIES
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 (USA)
2010
La Fabrik, bourse de la ville de Burgdorf, Bern (Switzerland)
2009
Seoul Art Space, Geumcheon, Seoul (South Korea)
2007/2008
Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (France)
GRANTS AND PRIZES
2017
Shortlisted 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, 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, Paris (France)
EDUCATION
2003
MFA (with mention) delivered by the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts of Paris (France) (from Bernard Piffaretti and Jean-Marc Bustamante studios)
2002
Exhibition practice seminar (Directed by Christian Bernard)
2001
Formation Fonderie Coubertin - Compagnons du Devoir (France)
2000
Glasgow School of Art, Environmental Design Department (UK)