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Tam van tran biography

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Tam Van Tran (b. 1966) immigrated to America with his sister right before the fall of South Vietnam, and grew up in Denver. Receiving his BFA from the Pratt Institute in New York City, and attending the Graduate Film and Television Program at the University of California, Los Angela, Van Tran is an artist that is continually stretching, literally and figuratively, the boundaries of his work. Utilizing unconventional materials, such as chlorophyll and spirulina, Van Tran explores the universe, and is “intensely interested in the transitory nature of all materials. My paintings became a site or location for trying to capture the invisible without my having to make my hand visible.” Van Tran’s work is shown across the country at The Art Museum of the University of Houston, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, among many others.

Invited to work at ULAE by Bill and Larissa Goldston, Tam Van Tran continued his exploration of abstraction and emotion, the interior and exterior, the man-made and the organic in lithography. In Holographic Ensemble Bill a

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Tam Van Tran
1966–

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.

Exhibitions featuring the work of Tam Van Tran have taken place at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara, the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the UCLA Hammer Museum, the University of Houston Blaffer Art Museum, the Knoxville Museum of Art, the Weatherspoon Art Museum, North Carolina, the Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami, and is in numerous public collections including: The Museum of Modern Art, the Walker Art Center Minneapolis, The Broad Collection, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art,

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Tam Van Tran

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

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