ARLETTE QUYNH-ANH TRAN

"TUU_Stravinsky", 2024

Charcoal and watercolor on republished Bauhaus journal

11 ⅘ x 11 ⅘ inches (30 x 30 cm)

Selected by Rirkrit Tiravanija 

Arlette Quynh-Anh Tran is an art laborer based in Saigon. She makes art collectively and individually and curates and writes. Her artworks blend politics and sci-fi aesthetics through the assemblages of animation, 3D design, historical archives, and architecture. Arlette is obsessed with the fantasy of a futuristic Third World utopia in which political ideals are remixed, and human and non-human beings coexist and amalgamate. She creates a non-linear and absurd reading of modern histories that question the dominant post-Cold War narratives about the Third World. She was a fellow of Art in Networks: GDR and its Global Relations Fellowship, TU Dresden, Germany, and the Margaret F. Williams Memorial Fellow at the Asian Art Museum San Francisco. She was the International Advisor of the 58th Carnegie International 2022. In 2023, she received the Teiger Foundation research grant to investigate the first international exhibition on Vietnam at the Smithsonian in 1960. Selected exhibitions are at the Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul; Albertinum, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden; Lagos Biennial 2024; and Asia Culture Center, Gwangju. She will participate in Prospect New Orleans 6 and be part of the Asian Cultural Council’s New York Fellowship Program in the Fall of 2025. Her upcoming solo exhibitions will be held at Medium Gallery Saigon and nGbK Berlin. In 2012, she co-founded the Art Labor collective, working between the visual arts, social and life sciences in various public contexts and locales on long-term, multiple output projects which have been showcased at such venues as Para Site Hong Kong; Times Museum, Guangdong; Centre Pompidou, Paris; and 57th Carnegie International, USA.