Truong Tan
Floating on the River
Truong Tan
Painting - 80 x 100.3 x 3.8 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.5 x 1.5 inch
$25,000
Biography
Truong Tan currently lives and works in both Hanoi and Paris. Truong Tan was born in 1963 and graduated in 1989 from the University of Fine Arts in Hanoi, Vietnam. Truong Tan's unique artistic perspective is rooted in his struggles to maintain and express his sexuality in a sexually repressed society. As an openly gay artist, Truong Tan has long fought for the opportunity to exhibit his art whose overarching theme relates to his homosexuality. Truong Tan's difficulties in exhibiting his work in Vietnam forced him to move to Paris receiving world-wide acclaim. Working primarily with lacquer on wood, Truong Tan has mastered this medium with a distinct style and voice. Truong Tan's works have been added to the permanent collections of major art museums including the Singapore Art Museum, the Queensland Art Gallery in Australia and the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum in Japan. Truong Tan's collectors and admirers will be able to view his work beginning February 22, 2013 as part of the exhibit at the Guggenheim Museum in New York entitled “No Country" sponsored by the UBS MAP Global Art Initiative.
EDUCATION
1989: Graduated Hanoi Fine Arts College
1989-1998: Hanoi Fine Arts University Lecturer
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013: Group exhibition Guggenheim Museum, New York
2009: 4th Fukuoka Asian Art Trienniale, Fukuoka, Japan
Connect: Art Scene Vietnam, Berlin and Stuttgart, Germany
Hanoi where we are now, Art Vietnam Gallery, Hanoi, Vietnam
2008: Global Exhibition EurAsia of Cologne, Germany
2007: Diaper installation, Come in exhibition, Viet Art Center, Hanoi, Vietnam
2005: Vietnam "Dancers" installation at RYLLEGA gallery - Hanoi
2004: Vietnam "Spiders" installation at RYLLEGA gallery - Hanoi
2002: Vietnam "Vay Cuoi" Due's house - Hanoi
2000: France Espace chateauneuf Tours
1999: France "Nappes" Cite internationale des Arts Paris Allemagne
"Water, Fire, Wood" Asian Fine Art Factory Berlin
1998: France "Renaissance" Galerie les Singuliers Paris
"L'art est mort" Cite Internationale des Arts Paris
Australie "AIDS-HeART" Galerie 4A Sydney
1997: France "Document" Galerie du Chai Saint-Brieuc
"Transition" Installation place de la Republique Paris
Galerie Les Singuliers Paris
1996: Allemagne "Interieur" Kunsthalle Bielefeld
1995: Vietnam "Collision Culturelle" (Censuree en partie) Galerie Fleuve Rouge Hanoi
1994: France Ecole Natlonale des Arts Decoratifs Limoges
Vietnam "Peinture de Truong Tan" Galerte Ecole de Hanoi
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007: Vietnam "Diaper" Installation, "Come in" exhibition, Viet Art Center - Hanoi
2004: The Netherlands "Vietnam Today" Galerie
Amber and Galerie Caro
2003: Hanoi "Go! Stop!...and in Between" 16 Hanoi
Artists at the unfinished Goethe Institute, Hanoi, Vietnam
2002: Angleterre "All things fall and are built again" Biennnate de Liverpool
2000: France "Messagers de la Terre" espace Rur' Art Rooille'
"L'humanite" en duo avec Paella Chimicos Galerie les Singuliers Paris
1999: Allermagne "GAP Vietnam" Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt Berlin
Italie 2 Open 999 International Exhibition of Sculpture and Installation Lido di Venezia
1998: Norvege "Vietnam Express" Exposition itinerante France "Paris-Hanol-Saigon" Pavilion des Arts Paris
Pays-Bas "Art in Freedom" Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam
USA "Above and Beyond" Oakland California
1997: Thailande "New Vietnamese Painting" The Siam Society Bangkok
Allemagne "Der rest Der Welt" -Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin
France "Peintres du Vietnam" Musee de l'Histoire et de l'Art. Salnt-Brieuc
1996: Allemagne "Lack Erde Steine" Museum fur Lackkunst Munster
Danemark Conteneur 96 "L'art franehit les oceans"Copenhague
Japan "Vietnamese Art after Doi Moi" Fujita Art Museum Tokyo
Vietnam "Black and Whlte" Galerie Natasha Hanoi
1995: Japan "Six contemporary Artists in Vietnam" Yokohama Portside Galerie
"Vietnam Arts" ltoyama Gallery Tokyo
Allemagne "Sicherheitsabstand" Kunsthalle Bielefeld
Singapore The Substation "Khoang each an toan"
1994: Hong Kong Asia Art Fair, Galerie "Fleuve Rouge"
Allemagne "Zeitgenossische Malerei in Vietnam"Goethe Institut Frankfort
Vietnam "Avant-garde" Salle d'Exposition Nationale Hanoi
1993: Vietnam "Lacques vivantes" l'Alliance Francaise Hanoi