BIOGRAPHY

1964 Born in Nam Dinh, Vietnam

1987 BA, Vietnam University of Fine Arts

1987-1989 Lecturer at Vietnam University of Fine Arts

1992 BA, National School of Fine Arts in Paris, France

2000 Invited lecturer of Fine Arts College of Reims (France), program "La semaine folle"

Live and work in Paris, France

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022 Story Of Vu – Series “Road to Sunshine”, Anh Duong Art Space, Long Bien Golf Club & Hanoi Studio Gallery, Hanoi

Me & Moi, A2Z Art Gallery, Paris, France

2019 The Already Seen Never Seen, Vin Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City

2016 Is the Sky Blue?, Tobin Ohashi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2015 Exercices du Hasard (Random Exercises), Whart Galerie, Toulouse, France

2014 Sur l'autre Face du Sourire (On the other side of the Smile), Cité du livre, Aix-en-provence, Frace

The Exponents Without Number, Heritage Space, Hanoi

I will Come to See You with a Visual Story, Manzi Gallery, Hanoi

2011 18 Proposals of the Impossible, Space Squirrel Foundation for Contemporary Art, Toulouse, France

2007 May Longevity Be With You!, L'Espace French Cultural Center, Hanoi

Blue Memories, L'Espace French Cultural Center, Hanoi

Elles Aussi, Fleurs Tombantes... (They Too, Drooping Flowers…), Cycle “Art et Chapelles”, Pays de la Loire, France

2006 We Don’t Know How Water Is Blue?, Plum Blossoms Gallery, Hong Kong

2005 I Came With A Blue Day, Plum Blossoms Gallery, New York, US

2002 Good Morning Vietnam, Gallery Podion, Amsterdam

2001 Made in Vietnam, Plum Blossoms Gallery, New York, US

Encounter With Rain, Mai Gallery, Hanoi

2000 Journal der Orte (Journal of Places), Künstlerhäuser Worpswede, Germany

1998 The Market in Hell, Maea, Paris, France

1996 Natal Sources, Mai Gallery, Hanoi

1995 Solo exhibition, Mai Gallery, Hanoi

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019 Transitory Art II, Eurostars Museum, Lisbon, Portugal

2017 The Sonnet in Blue – Children's Biennale 2017, National Gallery Singapore

The Other Side III, Pikto Zagreb Gallery, Croatia

2016 The Meeting Point, L’Espace French Cultural Center, Hanoi

Finite and Infinite – Month of Arts Practice (MAP) Project, Heritage Space, Hanoi

Opening – 30-year retrospective of Vietnam Fine Arts, Vietnam National Fine Arts Museum, Hanoi

You and Me: Faces and Figures, Tobin Ohashi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2015 Generations: 40 Hues Between Black & White, Orange Country Center for Contemporary Art, California, US

2014 Formes et Paroles (Forms and Words), Musée Dapper Museum, Goree Island, Paris, France

Les Artistes de la Galerie (The Artists of the Gallery), Whart Galerie, Toulouse, France

2013 Artwalk, Plum Blossoms Gallery, Hong Kong

Les Cadavres sont Exquis (Corpses are Exquisite), Space Squirrel Foundation for Contemporary Art, Toulouse, France

2012 Art Week Style. UZ 2012, Youth Creativity Palace, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Defi Expo 2012, Place Sainte Marthe, Paris, France

2011 Exhibition reviewing the artistic project “Hope Box Happening” (HBX), Hanoi

Vietnam Voices, Tobin Ohashi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2009 Nam Bang!, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney, Australia

Lim Dim – Contemporary Art in Vietnam, Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway

Lim Dim 2, Stiftelsen 314, International Contemporary Art Foundation, Bergen, Norway

Contemporary Art Routes 2009, Paris City Hall 9th, Paris, France

2008 Post Doi Moi: Vietnamese Art after 1990, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore

The Other Mainstream II, ASU Art Museum, Arizona, US

Paca IV, Saint-Florent-le-vieil abbey, France

2007 Retrospective 1982-2007, Baie-Saint-Paul Museum of Contemporary Art, Quebec, Canada

2006 Biennale Austria – International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Huttenberg, Austria

Artists from Vietnam, Galerie Mirchandani and Steinruecke, Mumbai, India

2005 Les Artistes Pérégrins (The Peregrine Artists), Space Squirrel Foundation for Contemporary Art, Toulouse, France

2004 Art Senate, An Invitation to Travel? The Peregrine Artists, Orangerie Senate, Luxembourg Garden, Paris, France

Alien Bravo, Plum Blossoms Gallery, New York, US

Do a book, Plum Blossoms Gallery, New York, US

2003 Travelers, Islip Art Museum, New York, US

Untitled, Plum Blossoms Gallery, New York, US

2002 Group exhibition, Plum Blossoms Gallery, New York, US

2001 Open Studio, ISCP, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, US

2000 Longing for Landscape, Gallery Altes Rathaus, Worpswede, Germany

GM Art Night Paris, Modern Art Museum of Paris, France

The Mute Scream, Baie-Saint-Paul Museum of Contemporary Art, Quebec, Canada

Mac 2000, Auteuil Space, Paris, France

1999 Creation of The Rain Room for "Gap Vietnam", Art Center Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany

Find the Future, Symposium of the New Painting in Canada, Baie-Saint-Paul Museum of Contemporary Art, Canada

Magnum Creation, Salon Saga, Paris, France

1998 Meeting in Aparte, Amiens, France

The Ones By The Others, La reserve Area, Paris, France

1997 Vietnamese Painters, Museum of Art & Histor, Saint Brieuc, France

Demarcations, Maea, Paris, France

Exquisite Corpse, Maea, Paris, France

1996 Lacquer. Earth. Stones, Museum of Lacquer Art, Münster, Germany

Night Course, Maea, Paris, France

1995 Current Art in Deauville, Etablissement Elie de Brignac, Deauville, France

Vietnamese Connections, Paul Ricard Gallery, Paris, France

1993 Vietnam, Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam

Netherlands-Vietnam Dialogue, Watertown Monument, Vlissingen, Netherlands

1992 Uncorked Soul, Plum Blossoms Gallery, Hong Kong

1991 Salon Biennal 1991, National Society of Fine Arts, Grand Palais, Paris, France

Uncorked Soul: Vietnamese Contemporary Art, Plum Blossoms Gallery, Hong Kong

1990 Artists of the world, Gallery Bernanos, Paris, France

Atelier de Zavaro, Gallery of Fine Arts House, Paris, France

1987 National Young Artists Exhibition, Ho Chi Minh City

1985 National Fine Arts Exhibition, Hanoi

1984 National Young Artists Exhibition, Hanoi

FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMS

2011-2012 Pollock-Krasner Grant, New York, US

2001 Residency, ISCP New York, US

2000 Residency, Künstlerhäuser Worpswede, Germany

1999 Symposium of the New Painting in Canada, Baie-Saint-Paul Museum of Contemporary Art, Quebec, Canada

1993 Nederland -Vietnam een dialoog, Watertown Monument, Vlissingen, Netherlands

AWARDS

2006 First Prize, Biennale Austria, with artwork "Viva la politica"

1985 Bronze Medal, National Fine Arts Exhibition

PUBLICATIONS

2017 Artbook “TRAN TRONG VU a Vietnam passer-through-walls”, written by François Damon, Editions Maia, Paris

2014 Novel "The Convicted City Has Disappeared", published by East-West Language and Culture Center and Culture and Information Publishing House

COLLECTIONS

Vietnam National Fine Arts Museum

Singapore Art Museum, Singapore

ASU Art Museum, Arizona