Tran Luong
When the Sky Merges with the Earth
10 Jun – 7 Aug 2026
39 Walker

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Tran Luong, Chapter 1: Mở Nước / the Beginning, 2017. Oil, acrylic, and collaged bronze on canvas, 47 1/4 × 78 3/4 in (120 × 200 cm)

Tran Luong (b. 1960, Hanoi, Vietnam; based in Hanoi) is one of Vietnam’s leading contemporary artists and thinkers and a mentor to generations of younger artists. His paintings, performances, photography, videos, sculptures and installations have been exhibited in multiple continents in a career spanning several decades. Tàm Tã - Soaked in the Long Rain, a retrospective exhibition curated by Biljana Ciric, opened in 2024 at the Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, UAE and traveled to Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand in 2025. This year, the show opened at The Art Gallery of Western Australia in Perth.

Luong was part of a collective known as the Gang of Five who rejected the expectations of social realism favored by the state of Vietnam, mounting notable exhibitions throughout the country as well as in Hong Kong and London in the 1990s. In 1998 he co-founded Nha San Doc, Hanoi’s leading alternative art space. Luong has curated exhibitions throughout Vietnam and internationally and was notably was part of the curatorial team of the 2013 Singapore Biennial.

He has exhibited at Fukuoka Asian Art Triennial, Japan; Singapore Art Museum; Macau Museum of Art, China; Ke Center, Shanghai, China and has performed at art festivals in Singapore, China, Myanmar and Indonesia. Works by Tran are in the collection of the Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA; Singapore Art Museum; Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan; the Lecht Collection, Hanoi, Vietnam, among others.