1965
Born in Kontum, Vietnam?
Lives and works Los Angeles, CA
EDUCATION
1996
Graduate Film and Television Program, University of California,?Los Angeles, CA
1990
BFA Painting, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008
Luminosity, Cohan and Leslie, New York, NY
2006
Purple System,Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
Tam Van Tran: Psychonaut, Blaffer Gallery, The Art Museum of the University of Houston, Houston, TX
2005
Entering the City of Omniscience, Cohan and Leslie, New York, NY
SubUrban – Tam van Tran, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
2004
Lord of Hot Butter, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
2003
Cohan Leslie and Browne, New York, NY
2002
Project Room, Cohan Leslie and Browne, New York, NY
2001
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2000
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA?
Cold Frost, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
1999
Turkey Diesel, Dirt Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008
Six from LA, Seiler + Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
New century New Painting: Recent Acquisitions from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection, Bob Rauschenberg Gallery, Ft. Myres, FL
2006
Super Vision, ICA Boston, Boston, MA
2005
Around About Abstraction, Weatherspoon Art Museum, NC
Liquid Soft Lightning Touch, Doggerfisher, Edinburgh
2004
Topographies, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2004 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2003
International Paper, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA?
In the Making: Drawings from a Private Collection, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
2002
Heike Kati Barath, Jeff Elrod, Sarah Rapson, Tam Van Tran, Cornelius Volker, Clare Woods, Cohan Leslie and Browne, New York, NY?Panarama, curated by Carmen Zita, Room Interior Products, New York, NY?
Drawing Biennial, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
2001
New Work: LA Painting, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA?Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA
2000
Car Pooling from LA, Asian American Art Center, New York, NY?
Radar Love, Gallery Marabini, Bologna, Italy?Luminous, Ikon Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA?
Pierogi 2000: The Flat Files, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
1999
Other Paintings, Huntington Beach Art Center, CA
1998
Asian American Art Center, New York, NY
1995
House of Styles, Tri Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1990
Kassel Documenta Archiv, Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany?
Stuttgart Staatsgalerie, Grafische Sammlung, Stuttgart, Germany
SELECTED AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2001
Joan Mitchell Foundation Award
2000
Pollock Krasner Fellowship
1993
Ucross Artists Residency, Ucross, Wyoming
1991
Creative Fellowship in the Visual Arts, Colorado Council on the Arts and Humanities
