Biog
B. 1965
Based in Tsukuba, Japan. A British artist of Vietnamese descent, Tran received a Bachelor’s degree in Intellectual History & French at Sussex University before going on to study an MA and then PhD in photography at the University of the Arts, London. Currently adjunct lecturer at Nihon University and Waseda University. Frequent contributor to Japan Times.
Solo shows
2014
Tokyo Story, Clas Gallery, Nagoya University, Japan
Tokyo Remnants, American University of Paris, France
2009
Second Nature, Sydney College of Art, Australia
2008
No Place Like Home, Omotesando Galerie, Tokyo Official event UK Japan 2008
No Place Like Home, Tsukuba University Art Space, Japan
2007
Second Nature, Shimin Gallery, Tsukuba, Japan
Return To Fairyland, Omotesando Galerie, Tokyo
LANDHOUSEHOME, Memories Gallery, Tsukuba, Japan
2005
Return to Fairyland, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London
2004
Utamakura Sites, Japan Foundation, Toronto, Canada
2001
Utamakura Sites, Pitshanger Manor & Gallery, Ealing, London Official event Japan 2001 Festiva
1999
Utamakura Sites, OP Photogallery, Hong Kong
1998
Utamakura Sites, Asuka shiryokan, Japan Official event, UK98 Festival
1996
Vietnam Night & Day. Studio Theatre gallery, London
Rotten Suns. Islington Arts Factory, London
Selected Group Shows
2019
Do You Love Me?, Nihonbashi Institute for Contemporary Arts, Tokyo
2018
Home in the Expanded Field, Courtyard Hiroo, Tokyo
Tokyo Stories, Darwin Museum, Moscow
2017
Tokyo Stories, Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, Russia
2016
Foodscapes, Gallery Q, Tokyo
2014
Tokyo Stories, Novisibirsk State Museum of Art, Russia
Mission in Tanegashima, Minamitanecho, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan
2007
Global Cities, Tate Modern, London
2006
10th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Italy
2004
Dislocation, Volkswagen Fotogalerie, Hong Kong