Thu-Van Tran
Thu Van Tran, Rainbow Herbicides #1, Graphite sur papier Canson, peinture aérosol, Graphite on Canson paper, spray paint, 68 x 57 x 3.5 cm (framed), 26 3/4 X 22 1/2 X 1 3/8 in, 66 x 55 cm (unframed), 2020, Courtesy of the artist and of the galerie Almine Rech
Thu Van Tran was born in Vietnam in 1979 and lives and works in Paris since 1981.
In 2018, she was nominated for France’s prestigious Paris Marcel Duchamp. She completed her studies at the Glasgow School of Art and the Beaux-Arts de Paris.
Thu Van Tran’s practice is consistently inspired by literature, history, architecture, and nature, focusing her attention on the ways in which the cultural concepts of contamination, identity, and language are explored within these fields. At the heart of this reference is the question of our ability or perhaps our inability to narrate and transmit stories and tragedies.
Thu-Van Tran is represented by Almine Rech Gallery in Paris