Ron Tran

Ron Tran is a Vancouver-based artist whose practice explores the ways in which chance and coincidence influence daily life. Tran employs a subtle methodology of interaction and collaboration to produce works in a variety of media. Inserting art into public life through quiet, playful interpersonal gestures, Tran pushes the limits of absurdity, physical endurance and provocation. Recent work at Western Front featured a lone wooden door which was the door to Tran’s apartment, which he lived without for the duration of the exhibition.

Tran’s work explores issues of power and cultural anxiety while engaging the critical potential of humour. He studied at the Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design and has participated in group and solo exhibitions at the Saidye Bronfman Centre, the Helen Pitt Gallery, Artspeak, Access, and the Charles H. Scott Gallery. Tran has exhibited internationally at the Liu-Haisu Museum in Shanghai, China , recently completed a two month residency at Neon Gallery in Sweden, and was selected to be in East International 2007 in Norwich England. His new work was recently featured in a solo exhibition at Lawrence Eng Gallery, Vancouver.