Profile
born 1960
lives and works in Hanoi Vietnam
Tran Luong
Works
First solo show by Tran Luong at Nhasan Studio 1998: "an Uptodatish Dragon"
Initial 1999
Bio
1960 : Born in Ha Noi - Viet Nam .
1983 : Graduated from Hanoi Fine Arts Institute .
EXHIBITIONS :
2010 ……… Islands for free ! Guangzhou Live Art Festival China
2009 ……… Moving forwards and backwards - Intersection Vietnam: New Works from
North & South. Valentine Willie Fine Art Kuala Lumpur & Singapore
Havana Biennale Mao Khe Project La Havana Cuba
“Update: Artscene Vietnam” ifa Gallery Berlin & Stuttgart Germany
2008 ……… Undisclosed territory #2 performance art festival Solo Indonesia
Global Warming ! performance art festival Merapi volcano Jogjacarta
Indonesia
Post Doi Moi Singapore Art Museum Singapore
Ket Noi “Growing rice in Singapore” Singapore Art Museum &
Post Museum Gallery Singapore
Strategies from within, KE center for the Contemporary Arts Shanghai.
UP-ON performance Art festival Chengdu, Chongqing. China
Dadao Live Art festival 2008 Beijing, Shanghai.
Inward Gazes Performance Art in Asia. Macau Art Museum Macau
Beyond Pressure Performance art event Yangon Myanmar
10+ ten years Nha San anniversary Hanoi Vietnam
2007………. Dadao Live Art Festival 2007 7 eastern coast cities of China
Flying Circus Project Singapore & Ho Chi Minh city
TransPOP Korea Vietnam Remix Arko Art center Seoul - San Francisco
2006............ Satu Kali First Performance Art Symposium in Kuala Lumpur
The Future of Imagination 3, International Performance Art Event
Singapore
Mao Khe project - SEA experimental film festival in Bangkok &
Redcat Los Angeles , USA
Artists from Vietnam Gallery Mirchandani+Steinruecke Bombay India
Dialogue Rayum institute Phnom Penh Cambodia
Liberation – Chapter 1, Saigon Open City Ho Chi Minh city
2005 ........... Mao Khe project - "space & shadow"
at House of World Culture (HKW) Berlin Germany
Flowing Video art at : DELL Gallery, The Gallery Space, The Project
Gallery at the Queensland College of Art. Brisbane Australia
Busan International Print Art Festival. Busan Metropolitan city hall
2004 ........... Busan Biennale. “We are what we eat, we are where we eat, we are how
we eat” installation & Video channel Busan Korea
LIM DIM - Hanoi International Performance Art Festival
2003 ……... Williamsburg Bridge - Vietnam Now WAH. Center New York City
The 8th NIPAF Asian Performance Art Festival & Summer Seminar Japan
"Up to Paradise" Green, Red and Yellow at Goethe Institute Hanoi.
5 years anniversary of Nha San Duc Hanoi
2002 ……… Reinvention on Mao Khe’s workshops - Hanoi CA Center
The 2nd Fukuoka Triennale 2002 Generationext version 2 - installation,
Flowing - video art . Fukuoka Asian Art Museum . Japan
Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art “The Red Network” version 2. . 2002 at Jump Ship Rat Liverpool UK
Partly Asleep. Video Art show at Hanoi CA Center Hano
Rices on Newspaper installation, Windows to Asia 2002 Hanoi CA Center
2001 ……... “Reaching the free space“ Group show Hanoi CA Center.
“Hanoi International Painting Workshops“ exhibition Hanoi CA Center
2000 ……... Collaboration works (Sound) with Rodney Dickson Nha San Ha Noi
1999 ……….Drawing Tran Luong & Thanh Chuong. Japan Art Forum. Kyoto-Japan
Contemporary Vietnamese Art St.Martin culture Center.
Buenos Aires Argentina.
1998 ……… Vietnamese Spring-Contemporary Art Hotel de Ville Paris
20th Century Vietnamese Art Around Europe
1997 ………Six Vietnamese artists French Institute New York City
Association From Music to Painting La Vong Gallery Hong Kong
Contemporary Vietnamese Art Den Haag Holland
1996 ……….Contemporary Vietnamese Art Fujita Vente Museum Tokyo
Gang of five 5 La Vong Gallery - Hong Kong
1995 ……… Weather Report-Collaboration Painting Around Asia & Europe
Six Viet Nam artists Tokyo Gallery & Yokohama Portside Gallery
Vietnamese Painting Exhibition Gallery Iotoyama Tokyo
1994 ……… Gang of five 4 London
1993 ……… Gang of five 3 Gallery 16 Ngo Quyen. Ha Noi
Vietnamese Art TropenMuseum . Amsterdam
Workshops & Exhibition Vlissingen - Holland
1992 ……….Gang of five 2 Gallery Thanh Nien. HCM city
Abstract Painting - Group show Ho Chi Minh city
1990 ……… Gang of five 1 Gallery 7 Hang Khay Ha Noi
Portrait - Group show Gallery 7 Hang Khay Ha Noi
SOLO EXHIBITIONS :
2010 : Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn Nha San Studio Ha Noi
2007 : Welts interractive performance at 798 Space Gallery Beijing
“cleaning mAouth” performance at Tien An Men square Beijing
2006 : Moving forwards and backwards interractive performance at Riverside
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2004 : Variation for days past Installation & texts - Goethe Institut Hanoi
2003 : Foods of Ground installation Cave gallery Williamsburg New York City
Up to Paradise photographs & texts installation - Goethe Institut Hanoi
Fairy tale Soup. Video installation British Council Hanoi Opera House
2002 : The Red Network installation and Groping for the past performance,
at Civitella Ranieri Center - Italia
2001 : Chay - Flowing Video Art Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
Cornell University Ithaca - New York
Steam Rice Man Performance. Mao Khe , Quang Ninh - Viet Nam
On the Bank of Red River Installation & Performance Ha Noi
2000 : Installation & Sound Generationext The Richard F. Brush Gallery
St. Lawrence University, Canton New York
Installation & Sound Untitle Nha San - Ha Noi
1999: Installation & Video art Flowing Art in General - New York City
1998 : An up-to-datish Dragon Installation & Sound at Nha San - Ha Noi
1997 : Flowing - Painting Tokyo Gallery - Tokyo
1996 : Flowing - Painting Southborough Massachusetts . US
The Beginning Installation at L'atelier Gallery Ha Noi
1994 : Flowing - Drawing Vietnamese Cultural House Paris
WORKSHOPS & CONFERANCE :
“Connected” interactive performing art festival Tokyo Japan 2010
"Where Art Happens" Rogue Art Kuala Lumpua Malaysia 2009
Contemporary Art in Germany Berlin Germany 2008
Ibsen conference. Social conditions & censorship Oslo , Norway 2008
7th Asiatopia & first S.E Asia Performance art
Symposium (SEAPAS) Bangkok Thailand 2006
Cities Art
Recovery-Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
New York. City 2006
Public Art In(ter)vention Symposium
Chiang Mai Thailand 2005
Discussion on Performance Art . British Council Hanoi 2004
Performance Art Summer NIPAF Seminar Nagano 2003 Japan
2nd Forum on Arts & Culture in the Mekong Region
Phnom Penh & Siemriep 2003
Performance Art Workshops at Nha San & Goethe Institute Hanoi 2003
Civitella Ranieri Center Umbria - Italia 2002
Hanoi Art Goes New Media - Workshops. Hanoi - 2002
MoMA’s workshops 2rd Hong Kong 2002
Windows to Asia Hanoi 2002
Dance Theatre Workshops Project New York City 2002
Reyum Institute of Art and Culture Meeting Phnom Penh 2002
MoMA’s East Asian Museum Professionals. New York city & Los Angeles 2001
Visual Art Workshops of Hanoi Artists at MaoKhe, Quang Ninh-Viet Nam 2001
2001 Ha Noi International Painting Workshops Ha Noi
New media workshops at Goethe Institut Hanoi 2001
Art Network Asia Workshops Shanghai 2000
Forum on Arts & Culture in the Mekong Region Bangkok 2000
Flying Circus Project Singapore 2000
Ha Noi & Netherland young Artists Workshops Ha Noi 1996
Holland & Viet Nam Visual Art Workshops , Vlissingen - Holland 1993
OTHER :
- Board director: - ANA Art Network Asia (2003 – 2009)
- SOC Saigon Open City, 2 years international Art project
- CDEF Culture Development and Exchange Fund (Denmark
Fund)
- Founder and running the Hanoi Contemporary Art Center (from 2000 to 2003)
- Co-Founder NHA SAN STUDIO the first independent artspace in Vietnam (from 1998)
- Curated : - Almost shows at NHA SAN STUDIO from 1998 to 2002.
- Mao Khe Coal Mine Workshops & Exhibition 2001
- “Reaching the free space” at Hanoi CAC 2001
- “Green Red and Yellow” Contemporary Visual Art Exhibition
at Goethe Institute International Hanoi 2003
- LIM DIM – Intenational Performance Art Festival 2004
- "Cocoon" solo show of Nguyen Hoang at Goethe Institut 2005
- "Water droplets" art in development project SUMA 2005
- Hanoi - Kunminh Arts exchange project 2005
- Hanoi - Phnom Penh Arts exchange project 2006
- Workshops Dialogue & Improvisation, SOC July 2006
- Recovery HCM city FAA Oct 2006
- DOM DOM 1-Performance Art Festival Hanoi open 2006
- Welcome to our world, Photovoice Exhibition ChildFund 2006
- GTZ project for Tam Dao national park 2007
- New Faces, national youth contemporary arts show 2007
- Simakai-Noi vong tay lon Art in development project 2008
- Something fell, falling and will be fall L’Espace Hanoi 2008
- LimDim Stenersen Museum Oslo Norway 2009
- Nang Bong Nhe Tech Hue Festival 2010
- Tam Ta Bui Gallery Hanoi + San Art HCM city 2010
- Co-Curated : - Hanoi Art Goes New Media - Workshops & Exhibition 2002
- Williamsburg Bridge-Vietnam Now WAH.Center,NY.NY 2003
- "Blending in" PhotoVoice project British Council Hanoi 2004
- “Windows to Asia” at Hanoi CAC 2002
- Art ConneXions-Goethe International Art Projects 2004-2006
- Ket Noi, Vietnam Singapore arts dialogue 2008
- Curatorial Advisor :
- QUOBO - Berlin conceptual art exhibition (1989-2000)
in Hanoi 2003
Collaborator: - Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (FAAM) . Japan
RECEIVED FUNDING FROM :
Gate Foundation ,
Ford Foundation ,
The Rockefeller Foundation
Asian Cultural Council
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts .
Goethe institute
Visiting Arts
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
The Swedish Fund for the Promotion of Culture.
Lucias & Eva Eastman Fund .
Civitella Ranieri Foundation .
Art Network Asia
British Council .
WORKS IN :
National Heritage Board - Singapore Art Museum .
Fukuoka Art Museum .
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum
Brooklyn Art Museum NY, New York
Herbert F Johnson Museum of Art - Cornell University New York
Tokyo Gallery Permanent Collection.
Robert Mondavi Permanent Collection