Truong Tran
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| Born | Truong Tran 1969 Saigon, Vietnam |
| Occupation | Poet, Visual artist |
| Nationality | Vietnamese American |
| Alma mater | UC Santa Cruz |
| Notable works | Placing the Accents (1999) dust and consciousness (2002) |
| Notable awards | San Francisco Poetry Center Book Prize (2002) Western States Book Prize Finalist in Poetry (1999) |
Truong Tran (born 1969) is a Vietnamese-American poet, visual artist, and teacher. He is an award winning author of five collections of poetry and a children's book.[1] As a visual artist Tran is best known for mixed media pieces though he has worked in multiple mediums. His work is in private collections, has been honored with solo shows and an exhibition catalog "I Meant to Say Please Pass the Sugar: Mixed Media Works 2009- Present" (2014).
Tran was born in Saigon prior to his family emigrating to the United States and settling in the San Francisco Bay Area. Tran currently lives in San Francisco, where he teaches creative writing at San Francisco State University and Mills College in Oakland.
Education & Teaching
Tran received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1992. He received a Master of Fine Arts degree from San Francisco State University in 1995. He has taught at SFSU, UC Berkeley Extension, Mills College, and Goddard College.
Poetry & Prose
Truong Tran's poetry has been translated into Spanish, Dutch and French. He was the featured poet at the Poetry International Festival in Rotterdam in 2011.[2] Tran's collection dust and conscience (2002) won the San Francisco Poetry Center Book Prize.[3]
Visual Art
In February 2010, Tran debuted his first solo exhibition as a visual artist, "the lost and the found", at the Kearney Street Workshop in San Francisco.[4] In February 2013 he had a joint show with Peter Max Larwarnce "AT WAR" at SOMArts, in San Francisco. In 2014, his show at the Telegraph Hill Gallery garnered international attention, in part because it featured "9,000 paper butterflies individually cut from old pornographic magazines" as a protest of what Tran considered the "obscenity" of the destruction of 9000 living butterflies by Damien Hirst as a by-product of a piece of his art.[5][6][7] In March, 2015 Tran's work was exhibited in a joint show with artist Jaime Cortez to innaguerate the new gallery space in California Institute of Intgeral Studies.[8]
Honors and awards
- The Fund For Poetry Grant, 2007
- San Francisco Arts Commission Cultural Equity Grant, 2003
- Intersection for the Arts Writer In Residence, 2003
- San Francisco Poetry Center Prize for dust and consciousness, 2002
- San Francisco Library Laureate, 2000
- Western States Book Prize Finalist in Poetry, 1999
- Kiriyama Book Prize Finalist, 1998
- Browning Society Prize in Poetry, 1994
- Ina Coolbrith Prize in Poetry, 1992
- San Francisco Arts Commission Grants
Bibliography
Poetry
- Four Letter Words (2008)
- within the margins (2004)
- dust and conscience (2002)
- Placing the Accents (1999)
- The Book of Perceptions (1999)
Children's Books
- Going Home Coming Home (2003)
Art
- I Meant to Say Please Pass the Sugar (2014)
References
- ^ "Truong Tran". Poetry Foundation. 2017-04-10. Retrieved 2017-04-11.
- ^ "Truong Tran (poet) - USA - Poetry International". www.poetryinternationalweb.net. Retrieved 2017-04-11.
- ^ http://www.sfsu.edu/~poetry/awards/bookAwardWinners.html
- ^ http://asiapacificarts.usc.edu/article@apa?truong_tran_exhibit_in_february_14214.aspx
- ^ Frank, Priscilla (2014-03-13). "These Butterflies May Look Innocent, But They Have An X-Rated Secret". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2017-04-12.
- ^ ""Ожидания предписанного мира" Труонга Трана". Retrieved 2017-04-12.
- ^ "Artist turns porn magazines into butterflies in Damien Hirst protest". The Independent. 2014-04-09. Retrieved 2017-04-12.
- ^ "New First Floor Keeps to CIIS Core Values". Retrieved 2017-04-12.
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