Born | Geboren in 1979, Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam)
Lives and works | lebt und arbeitet in Paris (France)
Studies
2004
MFA, Master of Fine Art, delivered with distinctions by ENSB-A (École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts of Paris - FR)
Exhibition Practice Seminar - ENSB-A (FR) - Directed by Christian Bernard
2001
Coubertin Foundry, Saint-Rémy Les-Chevreuses (FR) - Compagnons du Devoir
2000
Glasgow School of Art (UK) - Bachelor degree - Environmental Design Department
Solo Exhibition
2019
Le CREDAC, Ivry-sur-Seine, (cur. Claire Lerestif)
Rüdiger Schöttle Gallery, Munich
2018
VCCA - Vincom Center for Contemporary Art - Hanoi (VN), (cur. Mizuki Endo) Upcoming
La Grande Place Musée Du Cristal - Fondation Hermès - Saint Louis, (cur. Marie Cozette, Synagogue de Delme)
Galerie Saint Séverin – Paris,“Maidday”
2017
Meessen De Clercq – Brussels, “Mountains are like the bones of the earth. Water is its blood.”
Joseph Tang Gallery – Paris, “The Blind Excuse” w/ Marieta Chirulescu
Frieze - Randall’s Island - New York
2016
Ladera Oeste, Guadalajara (MEX), “Listen, the darkness deepens”
Macleay Museum, Sydney, “From stamping to reading”
n.b.k. (Neuer Berliner Kunstverein), Berlin, “Exchange of presents”
Les Abattoirs - Médiathèque, Frac Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse, “Writing and other flickers”
2015
Meessen De Clercq, Brussels, “We are this, and that, aren’t we?”
Espace Art et Essai - Rennes 2 University, “Cao Su pleure”
2013
MÉPIC - Musée éclaté de la presqu’île de Caen, “Rejections”
Statements - Art Basel, Basel, w/ Meessen De Clercq
Centre d’Art Villa du Parc, Anemasse, “The 18th Place”
Meessen De Clercq, Brussels, “We live in the Flicker”
2011
Martine Aboucaya Gallery, Paris, “The Humain Stain”
2010
La Maison Rouge - Le Patio, Paris, “The Pure Number according on Duras”
2009
Bétonsalon - Centre d’Art et de Recherche, Paris, “Book People”
2007
L’Espace - Centre Culturel Français, Hanoi
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Mulhouse, “Backlight”
Group exhibitions
2019
Visual Arts Centre in Megaron, Athens, “The Unwritten Library / After Babel”
2018
Centre Georges Pompidou - Paris, Marcel Duchamp Prize
The Schwartz Foundation, Art Space Pythahorion, Samos
MAMAC - Nice, “Cosmogonies”
Carré d'Art - Nîmes, “Un désir d'Archéologie”
2017
Anne-Sarah Bénéchou gallery - Paris, “Entre deux infinis”
Moderna Museet - Stockholm, “Manipulate the world”— Frac Franche-Comté (FR), “Montag or the possible libraries”
Lidice Museum - Lidice (CZ), “Remember Lidice”
Venice Biennale, The Arsenale, The 57th International Exhibition, “VIVA ARTE VIVA”
Centre Pompidou-Metz, “Jardin Infini. De Giverny à l'Amazonie”
2016
Le Parvis - Tarbes, “La timidité des cimes”
The Meurice Hotel - Paris, “The Meurice Prize exhibition”
Palazzo Reale - Milan, “A brief history of the future”
Meessen De Clercq - Brussels, “ANTHROPOCENE”
2015
Maison d’Art Bernard Anthonioz - Fnagp - Nogent-Sur-Marne, “Soudain...la neige”
Les Abattoirs - Frac Midi-Pyrénées - Toulouse, “Dévider le réel”
Block Edition - Berlin, “Remember Lidice”
Royal Museums of Fine Arts - Brussels, “A brief history of the future”
The kunsthalle - Mulhouse, “Translation as a negotiation”
2014
Jerome Poggi Gallery - Paris, “Matérialisme Histérique”
Edouard Manet Gallery- Gennevilliers, “Le corps invisible”
Jerome Poggi Gallery - Paris, “Sans titre (Je suis là)”
Le Plateau - FRAC Île-de-France - Paris, “Interprète”
LiFE, Saint-Nazaire, “Par les temps qui courent”
2013
Vehbi Koc Fondation - Istanbul
Espace des arts sans frontière, Nuit Blanche, Paris
Tanas Fondation/Neuer Berliner Kunstverein - Berlin, “The Unanswered Question”
2012
Le Crédac - Ivry-sur-Seine, "L’Homme de Vitruve"
End of Century Gallery - New York, "Twentieth to twentieth”
Meessen De Clercq - Bruxelles, "Particles"
2011
Palais des Beaux-Arts de Paris, “Soudain déjà”
Musée Départemental d’Art Contemporain - Rochechouart, “Au grenier quatre pièces de mémoire”
2010
Liste - Basel
Martine Aboucaya Gallery - Paris, “All Over”
Le Crédac - Ivry-sur-Seine , “Le Carillon de Big Ben”
2009
Martine Aboucaya Gallery - Paris, “Meeting you half way”
Serge Aboukrat Gallery - Paris, “Phase Zéro”
Lieu Commun, Le Printemps de Septembre - Toulouse, “Là où je suis n’existe pas”
Kimusa - Artsonje Center - Seoul, “Memory of void”
2007
Le Crédac - Ivry-sur-Seine, “Expérience Insulaires”
2006
La Générale - Paris, “Voir en peinture”
2005
Galerie DAP - Warszawa, “Tolerate me”
Galerie Hengevoss-Durkop - Hamburg
2004
Palais des Beaux-Arts de Paris, “Félicité”
Galerie du Passage de Retz - Paris, “Première Vue”
Galerie Pitch – Paris, “Singles”
2014
Centre Georges Pompidou - Bpi - Paris, “Duras Song” an exhibition on Marguerite Duras archives activated in an installation by Thu Van Tran, and co-curated with Jean-Max Colard
2006
a Générale - Paris, “Hradacany”, co-curated with Yann Chateigné
Collections (a selection)
2017
MNAM, (FR)
Fondation Kadist, (FR/US)
MAC VAL, (FR)
2016
Lidice Memorial, Lidice (CZ)
Agnès Rein collection, (FR/BR)
2015
Josée and Marc Gensollen collection, Marseille (FR)
Collection of Frac Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse (FR)
Winner of the public commission, Conseil Général of Seine Saint Denis, (FR)
2014
Iris and Matthew Strauss collection, San Diego (US)
2013
Vehbi Koc Fondation, Istanbul (TUR)
Sanders collection, Amsterdam (NL)
Pierluigi and Natalina Remotti Fondation, Camogli (IT)
Thibault Poutrel collection, Paris, (FR) and London (UK)
2012
Collection of Frac-Île de France (FR)
2011
Collection of Musée Départemental d’Art Contemporain, Rochechouart (FR)
2010
Museum of the Louvre Abu-Dhabi, Abu-Dhabi (AE). Commission by the Centre Georges Pompidou for the realization of works for the Children’s
2009
Collection of the Fonds Municipal d’Art Contemporain de la Ville de Paris (FR)
Public commission for the multimedia library of the city of Poissy (FR)
Residencies
2016
Neue Berliner Kunstverein Residency, Berlin (DE)
2012
"Hors les Murs" Program, French Institut, New York (US)
2011
La Fabrik, grant from the city of Burgdorf, Bern (CH)
2010
Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, Seoul (KR)
2008
Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (FR)
Grants and Prizes
2018
Production allowance, Fondation Nationale des Arts Graphique et Plastique (FR)
2017
Short listed for The Meurice Prize for Contemporary Art, The Meurice Hotel (FR)
2013
Production allowance, Fondation Nationale des Arts Graphique et Plastique (FR)
2010
Installation allowance, Drac Ile-de-France (FR)
2009
Finalist Audi Talents Awards (FR)
Individual creation allowance, Drac Ile-de-France (FR)
Support of the Amis de la Maison Rouge - Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris (FR)
2008
Exhibition allowance, Direction des Affaires Culturelles de la Ville de Paris (FR)
2006
Individual creation allowance, Drac Ile-de-France (FR)
2005
Installation allowance, Drac Ile-de-France (FR)
Laureate Mulhouse 05 Prize (FR), Henry-Claude Cousseau selection
2004
Project allowance, Direction des Affaires Culturelles de la Ville de Paris (FR)
