Anh Trần (1989, Bến Tre, VT) employs painting as a medium to challenge Western ideas about abstract painting. Trần reflects on and utilises painting methodologies and materials used by abstract painters of the Western canon, to engage with the fluctuating distances between critical discourses in contemporary painting and non-Western or hybrid painting practices. Often creating large scale works, her practice draws on a painterly-language that responds to spontaneous energy and sensations. The titles, symbols, and words visible in her recent work allude to personal experiences.
Trần is an artist who lives and works between Auckland (NZ) and Amsterdam (NL), and is currently a resident at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam. Trần received her Master of Fine Arts with first-class honours from Elam School of Fine Arts, the University of Auckland in 2016. She has exhibited at Artspace Aotearoa; Window gallery; St Paul gallery, Auckland and play_station gallery, Wellington (NZ).