Artist Talk with Tran Minh Duc

Tuesday, 15 Dec 2015, 6pm
In Khmer and English translation
Sa Sa Art Projects, White Building

Tran Minh Duc (b. 1982, Saigon, Vietnam) is drawn to the history of place, how images of the past inspire human action in their appropriated, fragmented and intangible forms such as oral histories, religious calendars, postcards, and found materials/objects. Encompassing performance, photography, collage and installation, Tran’s work specifically examines the character of urban life in Vietnam, studying the interaction between collective and individual, between ideas of what is local and foreign. Tran was artist-in-resident at Tokyo Wonder Site, Japan (2011) and with Creator Beyond Pressures project, Yangon, Myanmar (2012). He is a recipient of Asian Cultural Council Fellowship 2017, to New York City. Tran also works as International Liaison Officer at San Art, an artist-initiated, non-profit contemporary art organisation in Saigon. Tran holds a BA from College of Culture and Arts of Ho Chi Minh City, and currently lives and works in Saigon, Vietnam.

Tran has exhibited widely in Vietnam and internationally. Select solo exhibitions include Happiness Lies Beyond the Clouds at San Art, Saigon (2015) and at ARKUS Exhibition Hall, Sasebo City, Nagasaki (2014). Select recent group exhibitions include howdy cowboy, Dia Projects, Saigon (2015); Spring Watch Pavillion, Void, Ireland (2015); [from.to.], Nhasan Collective, Hanoi (2015); Goodbye to the 40th Anniversary of Vietnam War, Chicago (2015); Global Cities, Center Stage, Baltimore (2014); The Festival of Independents, Charlie Dutton Gallery, London (2013); Beyond Pressure: Festival of Performance Art, Yangon (2012); and Poetic Politic, Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco (2012). More about Tran Minh Duc at http://d-u-c.tumblr.com