Tam Van Tran

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Tam Van Tran (born 1966) is a visual artist born in Vietnam who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. His primary materials for paintings and sculptures include clay and paper, and extend to chlorophyll, glass, algae, staples, crushed eggshells, Wite-out eraser liquid, beet juice, gelatin, and other diverse ingredients which lend texture and intricacy to his organically-molded abstractions. [1] [2] [3]

Exhibitions featuring the work of Tam Van Tran have taken place at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara, [4] the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, [5] the Whitney Museum of American Art, [6] the UCLA Hammer Museum, [7] the University of Houston Blaffer Art Museum, [8] the Knoxville Museum of Art, [9] the Weatherspoon Art Museum, North Carolina, [10] the Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami, [11] and is in numerous public collections including: The Museum of Modern Art, [12] the Walker Art Center Minneapolis, The Broad Collection, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, [13] the Cleveland Museum of Art, [14] the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, [15] the Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, [16] the Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston Blaffer Museum, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, [17] the San Jose Museum of Art, [18] the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, [19] and the Neuberger Museum of Art. [20] He is a graduate of the Pratt Institute and the Film and Television Program at UCLA. [21]

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References

  1. ↑ "Exhibitions: Tam Van Tran". Press Release. Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara.
  2. ↑ Baume, Nicholas (October 2006). Super Vision. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  3. ↑ Pagel, David. "Art review: Tam Van Tran at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects". Culture Monster. Los Angeles Times.
  4. ↑ "Exhibitions: Tam Van Tran". Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara.
  5. ↑ "Pattern: Follow the Rules". Exhibitions. Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver.
  6. ↑ "Tam Van Tran". Whitney Biennial 2004. Whitney Museum of American Art.
  7. ↑ "International Paper". Exhibitions 2003. Hammer Museum.
  8. ↑ "Tam Van Train: Psychonaut". Exhibition Catalogues. Blaffer Museum University of Houston.
  9. ↑ "SubUrban: Tam Van Tran, April 22 - August 07, 2005". CAA Reviews.
  10. ↑ "Around About Abstraction, June 12, 2005 - October 2, 2005". Weatherspoon Art Museum Past Exhibitions. Weatherspoon Art Museum.
  11. ↑ "Exhibition for 2013-204 season" (PDF). Press Release. Margulies Collection.
  12. ↑ "The Collection". MOMA.
  13. ↑ "#DailyArtShot (698 of ∞): Tam Van Tran, "Mercurial Butterfly," 2008. (Not currently on view)". Twitter. Hirshhorn Museum.
  14. ↑ "Secret Butterfly Heaven (2008)". Collections. Cleveland Museum of Art.
  15. ↑ "Tam Van Tran Untitled, 1999". Collections. MOCA Los Angeles.
  16. ↑ Slenske, Michael. "Paper Takes Center Stage at Los Angeles's Craft and Folk Art Museum". Art + Auctions. Architectural Digest.
  17. ↑ Cotter, Holland. "Ambitious Theme in New Home for Modern Art". Art Reviews. New York Times.
  18. ↑ "San Jose Museum of Art Unveils New Works by Tam Van Tran, Bari Kumar". News. Art Daily.
  19. ↑ "Tam Van Tran". Collections. Albright-Knox Art Gallery.
  20. ↑ "Selected Works from the Neuberger Berman and Lehman Brothers Corporate Art Collections" (PDF). Sotheby's.
  21. ↑ "Biography of Tam Van Tran". Artists. Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects.

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