TRUONG TAN Born in 1963 in , Lives and works in Paris and Hanoi.

EDUCATION 1977-1982 Fine Art School Hanoi 1989 Hanoi Fine Arts University 1989-1998 Lecturer at Hanoi Fine Arts University

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2010 How to be an Angel, Thavibu Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand 2005 The Dancer, Ryllega Gallery, Hanoi, Vietnam 2004 Spiders, Ryllega Gallery, Hanoi, Vietnam 2002 Vay Cuoi/Wedding Dress, Nha San, Hanoi, Vietnam 2000 Espace Chateauneuf, Tours, L’Humanite (with Pealla Chimicos), Gallery les Singuliers, Paris, France 1999 Tableclothes, Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France Water, Fire, Wood, Asian Fine Art Gallery, , Germany Renaissance, Galerie Les Singuliers, Paris, France 1998 L’art est mort, Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France AIDS-HeART Galerie 4A, Sydney, 1997 Document, Galerie du Chai, Saint-Brieuc, France Transition, Place de la Republique, Paris, France Galerie Les Singuliers, Paris, France 1996 Inner Side, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany 1995 Collision Culturelle (with Bradford Edwards) Galerie Fleuve Rouge, Hanoi, Vietnam 1994 Ecole Nationale des Arts Decoratifs, Limoges, France Peinture de Truong Tan, Galerie Ecole de Hanoi, Vietnam

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2013 No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA 2012 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, Bui Gallery, Hanoi, Vietnam 2011 Negotiating Home, History and Nation, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore Connect:Kunstazene Vietnam, ifa Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany What do we talk about love, Bui Gallery, Hanoi, Vietnam 2010 Connect:Kunstazene Vietnam, ifa Gallery, Berlin, Germany 2009 Lim Dim – Contemporary Art in Vietnam – Behind the Scene, The Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway Fukuoka Museum 4th Triennial, Fukuoka, Japan Hanoi where we are now, Art Vietnam Gallery, Hanoi, Vietnam 2008 Singapore Biennale, Singapore Art Cologne, Global Exhibition of EurAsia, Cologne, Germany 10+ Nha San Duc, Hanoi, Vietnam 2007 Come in, Diaper, in cooperation with ifa and Goethe Institut, Viet Art Center, Hanoi, Vietnam Wedding, Saigon Open City, Women’s Museum, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 2004 Gap Vietnam, Galerie Amber, Leiden, Holland Gap Hanoi, Goethe Institut, Hanoi, Vietnam 2003 Go! Stop!…and in Between, 16 Hanoi Artists at the unfinished Goethe Institute,Hanoi, Vietnam Zoom Zoom, Nha San Duc, Hanoi, Vietnam 2002 All things fall and are built again, Biennnale de Liverpool, Liverpool, Great Britain 2000 Messagers de la Terre Espace Rur Art, Rouille, France L’humanite en duo avec Paella Chimicos, Galerie les Singuliers, Paris, France 1999 Gap Vietnam, Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin, Germany Lido di Venezia # 2. Open International Exhibition of Sculpture and Installation, Venice, Italy 1998 Vietnam Express, Touring Exhibition, Oslo, Stavanger and the other cities, Norway Paris-Hanoi-Saigon, Pavillon des Arts, Paris, France

Art in Freedom, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Holland Above and Beyond, Pacific Bridge Gallery, Oakland, California 1997 New Vietnamese Painting, The Siam Society, Bangkok, Thailand Die anderen Modernen, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany Peintres du Vietnam, Musee de I’Histoire et de I’Art, Saint-Brieuc, France 1996 Lack Erde Steine, Museum fur Lackkunst, Munster, Germany International Container Art Project: Container 96, Copenhagen, Denmark Vietnamese Art after Doi Moi, Fujita Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Black and White, Salon Natasha, Hanoi, Vietnam 1995 Six contemporary Artists in Vietnam, Portside Gallery, Yokohama, Japan Vietnam Arts, Itoyama Gallery, Tokyo Music, Salon Natasha, Hanoi, Vietnam Composition Movement, Immobility, Alliance Francaise, Hanoi, Vietnam Sicherheitsabstand, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany Icons of your time, Salon Natasha, Hanoi, Vietnam Khoang cach an toan, The Substation, Singapore 1994 Asia Art Fair, Galerie Fleuve Rouge, Hong Kong Red and Yellow, Salon Natasha, Hanoi, Vietnam Zeitgenossische Malerei in Vietnam, Goethe Institut, Frankfort, Germany Avant-garde Salle d’Exposition Nationale 29 Hang Bai, Hanoi, Vietnam A Silent New History, Exhibition Space of Artists Association, HoChi Minh City,Vietnam 1993 Living Lacquer, Alliance Francaise, Hanoi, Vietnam 1992 Fondation Franco-Vietnamienne, Ecole des Beaux Arts, Hanoi, Vietnam 1985-90 Vietnam National Exhibition, Exhibition Center Van Ho, Hanoi, Vietnam

PERFORMANCES 2010 IN-act-Project, Nha San Phuoc, Ha Tay, Vietnam 2008 Ryllega Berlin, Glaspavillon an der Volksbuhne Berlin, Berlin, Germany 2007 Man from the Future (in cooperation with Duong Tuong), Public Space, Saigon, Vietnam 2004 Lim Dim, Performance Art Project, Hanoi, Vietnam Circle II, Nha San Anh Khanh, Hanoi, Vietnam 2003 Meeting, (in cooperation with Nguyen Manh Hung) Goethe Institut, Hanoi, Vietnam 2002 Waiting the Husband, Nha San Duc, Hanoi, Vietnam Green Man, Liverpool Biennale, Liverpool, Great Britain 2001 Silver Man, Nha San Duc, Hanoi, Vietnam Pollution, Nha San Duc, Hanoi, Vietnam 2000 Green Man, Nha San Duc, Hanoi, Vietnam 1997 Flowers, Siam Society Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand Van Nghe, Film and Theatre School of Hanoi, Hanoi, Vietnam I start everything by Nothing, ZiF Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany 1996 About Freedom, German School, Singapore Artists-Life-Art, Stadelschule Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany My Time, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany Inside, International Container Art Project 96, Copenhagen, Denmark Army, Mong Cai Beach, Mong Cai, Vietnam Past and Future (with Nguyen Van Cuong, Exhibition Space 29 Hang Bai, Hanoi, Vietnam Water Buffalo (with Nguyen Quang Huy), Moc Chau, Vietnam Conversation, First District Private Space, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Tourist, Cholon (private space), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 1995 Me and Come In, Hang Chuoi (private space) Hanoi, Vietnam Circle, Tam Dao (public space), Tam Dao, Vietnam Anything can happen between now and then ( in cooperation with Amanda Hang and students), University of Fine Arts, Hanoi, Vietnam

RESIDENCIES AND WORKSHOPS 2007 Open Academy (in cooperation with Veronika Radulovic), Dong Son Foundation, Hanoi, Vietnam 2006 Cross the Border, Reyum Art School, Phnom Penh, Cambodia 2002 Green Man, Biennale de Liverpool, Liverpool, England 2001 Autumn, Students-Project, Bressuire, France 1998 Gap Vietnam, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany 1997 Van Nghe (in cooperation with Veronika Radulovic), Film and Theatre School, Hanoi, Vietnam 1996 About Freedom (in cooperation with Veronika Radulovic), German School, Singapore

PUBLICATIONS Catalogues: 1994 Asia Art Fair, Hong Kong 1995 Composition: Mouvement et Immobilite, Alliance Francaise Hanoi 1995 Lack Erde Steine, Munster, Germany 1995 Interieur, Bielefeld, Germany 1996 Vietnam after Doi Moi, Fujita Art Museum de Tokyo, Japan 1996 Young Artists of Vietnam, Hanoi, Vietnam 1997 New Vietnamese Painting, Siam Society, Bangkok, Thailand 1997 Der Rest der Welt, Berlin, Germany 1998 Art in Freedom, Rotterdam, Germany 2000 Messagers de la Terre, France 2001 Vietnamese art XXth century 2002 All things fall and are built again, Biennale de Liverpool, Galerie Jump Ship Rat, Liverpool Great Britain

COLLECTIONS National Museum of Contemporary Art, Singapore L’ENAD of Limoges, France Post Vidai Contemporary Arts Collection, Zurich, Switzerland Fukuoka Museum, Fukuoka, Japan Guggenheim-Foundation, New York, USA