Thuong Tran

Thương Hoài Trần (she/they) is a Vietnamese American immigrant whose background informs and influences their interdisciplinary art practice. Often using family photographs as a way to pay homage to their familial and ancestral history. Art-making processes help them to reconcile the gaps and barriers experienced by those in diasporic communities: displacement, loss of language, and generational disconnect.

Hoài Trần hold a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Emporia State University and an Master of Fine Arts from the School of Art Institute of Chicago. They have been a fellowship recipient of the Residency Program at The Studios at MASS MoCA. Their work has been showcased at the Westmoreland Museum of American Art, The Center for Craft, Janet Turner Print Museum, and Artist Image Resource to name a few.

Publications: The Mid America Print Council Journal 34/35; Graphic Impressions, SGC International 2024. Exhibitions: Print Magic! Exhibition, Alabama Center for the Arts, Decatur, AL; In the Spaces Remaining, ARTRUSS Gallery, Chicago, IL; Where Is Your Body, United States of Asian American Festival, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA; Out in the Margins: Artwork of Radical Possibility, Gallery at Greenly Center, Bloomsburg, PA; The Fierce Urgency of Now: Socially Engaged Printmaking, Janet Turner Print Museum, Chico CA.