Anh Trần

About

Anh Trần (b. 1989, Bến Tre, Vietnam) is based in Berlin. Trần’s 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. She earned an MFA from the Elam School of Fines Arts, The University of Auckland, and is a former Rijksakademie van Beedlende Kunsten resident, in Amsterdam. Her work has been presented as solo exhibitions at Fitzpatrick Gallery, Paris; Galerie Fons Welters; Amsterdam and as part of various group exhibitions at Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp; Deborah Schamoni, Munich; Bortolami Gallery, New York; Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh and Museum Dhondt Dhaenens, Deurle.