Truong Tan

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