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Tam Van Tran - Artists - MILES McENERY GALLERY

Tam Van Tran Studio, 2016, Los Angeles, CA
(Photo credit: Robert Wedemeyer)

Tam Van Tran (b. 1966 in Kon Tum, Vietnam) studied painting and received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1990 from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. He later attended the Graduate Film and Television Program at the University of California, Los Angeles, from which he graduated in 1996. In 2004, Tran was selected to exhibit in the Whitney Biennial.

Tran has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA; Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe, New York, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA; Long Beach City College Art Gallery, Long Beach, CA; Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA; Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy; and San Art, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

His work has been included in group exhibitions at numerous international institutions including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, East Lansing, MI; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO; Museum of Contemporary Art Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX; and the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC.

His work may be found in the collections of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; The Broad Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, and elsewhere.

The artist lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

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