BIOGRAPHY
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| TAM VAN TRAN | |
| 1966 | Born in Vietnam |
| Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. | |
| Education | |
| 1996 | Graduate Film and Television Program, University of California, Los Angeles |
| 1990 | BFA, Painting, Pratt Institute, New York |
| Solo Exhibitions | |
| 2014 | Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA |
| Susanne Vielmetter Projects, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy | |
| 2013 | Leaves of Ore, Ameringer McEnery Yohe, New York, NY |
| 2012 | Adornment of Basic Space, Susanne Vielmetter Projects, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2010 | Mind is a Pure Expanse of Space, Anthony Meier Fine Art, San Francisco, CA |
| 2008 | Susanne Vielmetter Projects, Los Angeles, CA |
| Luminosity, Cohan and Leslie, New York, NY | |
| 2006 | Psychonaut, Blaffer Gallery at the Art Museum of the University of Houston, Houston, TX |
| Anthony Meier Fine Art, San Francisco, CA | |
| 2005 | Knoxville Museum of Art, TN |
| Entering the City of Omniscience, Cohan and Leslie, New York, NY | |
| 2004 | Lord of Hot Butter, Anthony Meier Fine Art, San Francisco, CA |
| 2003 | Vegetarian Summer, Cohan and Leslie, New York, NY |
| 2002 | Project Room: Lover of Air, Cohan Leslie and Browne, New York, NY |
| Beetle Manifesto, Susanne Vielmetter Projects, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2001 | Susanne Vielmetter Projects, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2000 | Susanne Vielmetter Projects, Los Angeles, CA |
| Cold Frost, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA | |
| 1999 | Turkey Diesel, Dirt Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| Group Exhibitions | |
| 2013 | New works of painting, photography, sculpture and video, The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami, FL |
| Pattern: Follow the Rules, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Lansing, MI | |
| 2012 | Summer Group Show, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| Tam Van Tran and DeWey Ambrosino, San Art, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam | |
| 2011 | East Ex East, Brand New Gallery, Milano, Italy |
| Paul Clay, Salon 94, New York, NY | |
| Midnight at Malibu, Meulensteen, New York, NY | |
| Los Angeles Museum of Ceramic Art at ACME, ACME Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2010 | Fresh from Chelsea, University of Central Florida, Orldando Fl |
| "Summer Group Show", Susanne Vielmetter Projects, Los Angeles, CA | |
| KERAMIK, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Inaugural Group Exhibition, Susan Vielmetter Projects, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2009 | ArtBasel Miami, two person presentation with Ruben Ochoa, with Susanne Vielmetter Projects, Los Angeles, CA |
| Topographies, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo NY | |
| 2008 | California Dreaming, Seiler + Mosseri-Marlio , Zurich |
| Fata Morgana, Galerie Schmidt Maczollek, Cologne | |
| 2007 | Large Scale Drawings, MFA Houston, Houston TX |
| Nineteen Going on Twenty: Recent Acquisitions from the Collection of The Contemporary Museum, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii | |
| 2006 | Supervision, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston |
| 2005 | Around About Abstraction, Weatherspoon Art Museum, NC |
| Liquid Soft Lightning Touch, Doggerfisher, Edinburgh | |
| 2004 | WhitneyBiennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
| Topographies, San Francisco Art Institute | |
| 2003 | International Paper, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles |
| 2002 | In the Making: Drawings from a Private Collection, University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
| Drawing Biennial, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC | |
| Heike Kati Barath, Jeff Elrod, Sarah Rapson, Tam Van Tran, Cornelius Volker, | |
| Clare Woods, Cohan Leslie and Browne, New York | |
| Panorama, Room Interior Products (curated by Carmen Zita) | |
| 2001 | New Work: LA Painting, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco |
| Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles | |
| 2000 | Car Pooling from LA, (with Susan Choi, Dean Sameshima, Kyungmi Shin, T. Kim-Trang Tran and Shirley Tse), Asian American Art Center, New York |
| Radar Love, (curated by David Pagel), Gallery Marabini, Bologna, Italy | |
| Luminous, (curated by Chris Miles and Leonardo Bravo) Ikon Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA | |
| Pierogi 2000: The Flat Files, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA. | |
| Traveled to: Post, Los Angeles, CA; Block Artspace, Kansas City | |
| 1999 | Other Paintings, (curated by Julie Joyce, with Augusto Arbizo, Philip Argent, |
| Gajin Fujita, David Goldstein, Stephen Heer, Cameron Martin, Yunhee Min, Sally Rose, Lisa Ruyter, | |
| Brad Spence & Amy Wheeler),Huntington Beach Art Center, CA | |
| 1998 | Asian American Art Center, NY |
| 1995 | House of Styles, Tri Gallery, Los Angeles |
| 1990 | Kassel Documenta Archiv, Ludwig Museum, Cologne |
| Stuttgart Staatsgalerie, Grafische Sammlung, Stuttgart | |
| Awards | |
| 2008 | California Community Foundation Fellowship |
| Art Matters, Spring, Grantee | |
| 2001 | Joan Mitchell Foundation Award |
| 2000 | Pollock Krasner Fellowship |
| 1993 | Ucross Artists Residency, Ucross, Wyoming |
| 1991 | Creative Fellowship in the Visual Arts, Colorado Council on the Arts and Humanities |
| Public Collections | |
| The Museum of Modern Art, New York | |
| The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY | |
| The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. | |
| The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH | |
| The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX | |
| MOCA, Los Angeles, CA, from the Blake Byrne Collection | |
| The Neuberger Museum, Purchase , NY | |
| The Contemporary Museum, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii | |
| Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY | |
| San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose | |
| The ICA Boston, Boston, MA | |
| New Mexico Museum of Art, from the Werner H. Kramarsky Collection | |
