Truong Tran

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Truong Tran
BornTruong Tran
1969
Saigon, Vietnam
Occupation Poet, Visual artist
NationalityVietnamese American
Alma mater UC Santa Cruz
Notable worksPlacing the Accents (1999)
dust and consciousness (2002)
Notable awardsSan Francisco Poetry Center Book Prize (2002)
Western States Book Prize Finalist in Poetry (1999)

Truong Tran (born 1969 in Ho Chi Minh City) is a Vietnamese-American poet, visual artist, and teacher. He is an author of five collections of poetry and a children's book. [1] As a visual artist Tran is best known for mixed media pieces though he has worked in multiple mediums. His work is in private collections, and he has been honored with solo shows and an exhibition catalog "I Meant to Say Please Pass the Sugar: Mixed Media Works 2009- Present" (2014).

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Early life and career

Tran was born in Saigon prior to his family emigrating to the United States and settling in the San Francisco Bay Area. Tran currently lives in San Francisco, where he teaches creative writing at San Francisco State University and Mills College in Oakland. He has also taught at UC Berkeley Extension CSU Long Beach and Goddard College.

Tran received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1992. He received a Master of Fine Arts degree from San Francisco State University in 1995.

Poetry and prose

Truong Tran's poetry has been translated into Spanish, Dutch and French. Tran was the featured poet at the Poetry International Festival in Rotterdam in 2011. [2] Tran's collection dust and conscience (2002) won the San Francisco Poetry Center Book Prize. [3] The Book of Perceptions (1999), was a finalist for a Kiriyama Prize and placing the accents (1999), was a finalist for a Western States Book Award for Poetry. The correspondence between Truong Tran and poet Wanda Colman is included in the collection, Letters to Poets: Conversations About Poetics, Politics, and Community (2008). [4]

Visual art

In February 2010, Tran debuted his first solo exhibition as a visual artist, "the lost and the found", at the Kearney Street Workshop in San Francisco. [5] In February 2013 he had a joint show with Peter Max Lawrence "AT WAR" at SOMArts, in San Francisco. In 2014, his show at the Telegraph Hill Gallery garnered international attention, in part because it featured "9,000 paper butterflies individually cut from old pornographic magazines" as a protest of what Tran considered the "obscenity" of the destruction of 9000 living butterflies by Damien Hirst as a by-product of a piece of Hirst's art. [6] [7] [8] In March, 2015 Tran's work was exhibited in a joint show with artist Jaime Cortez to innaguerate the new gallery space in California Institute of Intgeral Studies. [9]

Honors and awards

Bibliography

Poetry

Children's Books

Art

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References

  1. ↑ "Truong Tran". Poetry Foundation. 2017-04-10. Retrieved 2017-04-11.
  2. ↑ "Truong Tran (poet) - USA - Poetry International". www.poetryinternationalweb.net. Retrieved 2017-04-11.
  3. ↑ "Welcome to the Poetry Center | the Poetry Center and American Poetry Archives".
  4. ↑ "Letters to Poets Conversations About Poetics Politics and Community". www.spdbooks.org. Retrieved 2017-04-12.
  5. ↑ "Asia Pacific Arts: Truong Tran exhibit in February". Archived from the original on 2017-08-19. Retrieved 2010-03-08.
  6. ↑ Frank, Priscilla (2014-03-13). "These Butterflies May Look Innocent, But They Have An X-Rated Secret". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2017-04-12.
  7. ↑ ""Ожидания предписанного мира" Труонга Трана" . Retrieved 2017-04-12.
  8. ↑ "Artist turns porn magazines into butterflies in Damien Hirst protest". The Independent. 2014-04-09. Retrieved 2017-04-12.
  9. ↑ "New First Floor Keeps to CIIS Core Values" . Retrieved 2017-04-12.
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