hoang tran nguyen
born Vung Tau, Vietnam
lives Narrm Melbourne, Australia
EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS
2022
House of Mother Tongue, House of Other Tongue – West Space & Footscray Community Arts
Archiving the Present (Curated by Tania Cañas) – Online
2021
Who’s Afraid of Public Space? (Curated by Max Delaney, Annika Kristensen and Miriam Kelly) – Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
disorganising – West Space, Liquid Architecture and Bus Projects
2020
A Family Album (Curated by Rachel Keir-Smith) – Town Hall Gallery, Hawthorn
2019
National Anthem (Curated by Kate Just) – Buxton Contemporary, Melbourne
2018
Hyphenated (Curated by Phuong Ngo and Tammy Wong Hulbert) – The Substation, Newport
2017
Footscray Art Prize, Finalist – Footscray Community Arts Centre
2016
Starting Conversations, Mobile Art Spaces, Wyndham Vale
2014
Instruction Call, West Projections, Melbourne
2013
Of Work and Time (A Mapping) – The Substation, Newport
Labour – Big West Festival
Substation Contemporary Art Prize, Finalist – The Substation, Newport
Unseen Habitation – (Curated by Dominic Golding) Goodtime Studios, Melbourne
2012
Everywhere But Here – (Curated by Claire Anna Watson) Blindside Gallery, Melbourne
Substation Contemporary Art Prize, Finalist – The Substation, Newport
2011
Vernacular Cultures & Contemporary Art from Australia, India & the Philippines – (Curated by Ryan Johnston) La Trobe University Museum of Art
Substation Contemporary Art Prize, Finalist – The Substation, Newport
Footscray By Night – Big West Festival
2010
Darkroom – Red Gallery, Melbourne
2009
F.A.C.T. 4 – (Group) Footscray Community Arts Centre
Translations/Generations – (Group) Big West Festival
2008
I Love Pho – (Curated by Cuong Le) Artplay Melbourne & Footscray Community Arts Centre
Ho Chi Minh City Artists – (Group) Melbourne City Library
2006
Ten Thousand Views – (Group) fauxPho Artspace
2005
Local Migration 2 – Big West Festival
2004
Local Migration – Next Wave Festival
Overnight in Amsterdam 3 – Seoul Fringe Festival
2003
Show Me How To Flykick – Fringe Festival, Melbourne
2002
Night Shopping – Footscray Community Arts Centre
Open for Inspection – (Group) Home installation, Footscray
2001
Karaoke Caravan – Big West Festival
Sugar Cane Juice – Bilo Artspace, Footscray
7 Paintings – Bilo Artspace, Footscray
PUBLICATION
Labour – Photographic Essay, Axon Creative Journal Nov. 2016
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Sebastian Henry-Jones, Speaking Two Things at Once, West Space Offsite 2022
Caitlin Nunn, Translations-Generations: Representing and producing migration generations through arts-based research – Journal of Intercultural Studies Vol 38.1 2017
Scott Brook, Footscray, for example – Meanjin Vol. 71 No.1 2015
Scott Brook, Sentimental Aesthetics – Journal of Intercultural Studies Vol 35.3 2014
Lian Low, A Carpark That Turns Into a Karaoke Stage for Footscray By Night – Peril Ed.12 2012
Maria Miranda, Vernacular Cultures & Contemporary Art from Australia, India & the Philippines – Artlink vol 31 no 3 2011
Ryan Johnston, Vernacular Cultures & Contemporary Art from Australia, India & the Philippines – Exhibition catalogue essay, La Trobe University Museum of Art 2011
Boitran Huynh-Beattie, Less Seen Art by Vietnamese-Australian Artists, Kunapipi Journal of Postcolonial Writing & Culture Vol 32 2010
Michael Bullock, Darkroom – Exhibition catalogue essay, Red Gallery 2010
Amelia Barikin & Scott Brook, Ten Thousand Views – Exhibition catalogue essay, fauxPho Artspace 2006
AWARDS
2022 Australia Council, Arts Projects for Individuals and Groups
2021 University of Melbourne – Research Training Program Scholarship
2013 Arts Victoria, Project Grant
2011 Australia Council, Community Partnerships
2005 Australia Council, New Media Board
2001/2 Maribyrnong City Council, Cultural Community Grant
1999 Queens Trust Award