BIOGRAPHY:
Trinh Tuan was born in 1961 in Hanoi, Vienam. In 1985 he graduated from the Hanoi Academy of Industrial Fine Arts in Hanoi, Vietnam.
He was awarded first prize in the 1996 Sweden-Vietnam Cultural Development Exhibition and awarded a fellowship in 1999 by the Columbia University Faculty of Fine Arts.
He is a member of the Vietnam and Hanoi Fine Arts Associations and a frequent lecturer at the Hanoi Academy of Industrial Fine Arts.
EXHIBITIONS
1987:
12 - 1987 Group shown in Hanoi
1994:
09 - 1994 Group shown in Hanoi
1995:
12 - 1995 Group shown in Hanoi
1996:
03 - 1996 Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of Hanoi Young Artist
08 - 1996 Group shown in Hanoi
09 - 1996 Contemporary Vietnamese Fine Art after DOIMOI in Fujita Vente Art museum - Japan.
09 - 1996 Contemporary Vietnamese Fine Art in Beijing - China
10 - 1996 Young Artist Exhibition in Hue.
1997:
03 - 1997 Solo Exhibition in Hanoi
04 - 1997 Contemporary Vietnamese Fine Art in Saigon New World Hotel
06 - 1997 The Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Center - Singapore
06 - 1997 International Exhibition in Kassel - Germany
08 - 1997 A View of Hanoi in Hanoi - Daewoo Hotel
09 - 1997 Vietnamese Sensibility in Soobin Art Gallery Singapore
09 - 1997 Korean - Vietnamese Modern Fine Arts exchange Exhibition in Hanoi - Daewoo Hotel
11 - 1997 Hanoi's Painting - Hanoi
11 - 1997 "From Seine River to Red River" at Nam Son Gallery - Hanoi
1998:
04 - 1998 Lacquer Paintings by Trinh Tuan and Cong Kim Hoa in Gallery 68 - Copenhagen Denmark.
07 - 1998 "Realm of Mystery" at Europe Asia Art House - Paris
1999:
03 - 1999 Gallery 68 Copenhagen - Denmark
03 - 1999 Regional Design Forum - Vientiane
05 - 1999 Group show in Red River Gallery - Melbourne-Australia
09 - 1999 Group show in Buenos Aires - Argentina
10 - 1999 Exhibition & Workshop in Columbia - University - New York
11 - 1999 Solo Show in Nam Son Gallery - Hanoi
12 - 1999 Solo Show in Thavibu - Bangkok.
2000:
Mekong Magic, Jerusalem Theater Israel
2001:
Vietnamese Contemporary Fine Art, Wilfrid Israel Museum
