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