When sky merges with Earth

Tran Luong's paintings, performances, and installations exploring landscape, water, and Vietnamese history through abstraction and narrative cycles.

Why go

Luong is a founding figure of Vietnamese contemporary art and social practice, having co-founded the country's first artist-led experimental space (Nha San Studio, 1998) and the Hanoi Contemporary Art Centre. This show pairs recent abstract works—the 'Under the Flowing' and 'Flowing' series—with his 2017 five-chapter narrative cycle on Vietnamese d

What to expect

A mix of large-scale paintings from the 'Under the Flowing' series (2025–2026) alongside earlier works including 'Flowing 24' (1996) and a five-part narrative installation titled 'Chapter 1–5' (2017) addressing Vietnamese history. The exhibition spans abstraction and figuration, with works in the permanent collections of the Guggenheim, Singapore A

Things to know

• Born 1960 in Hanoi; based there; co-founded Gang of Five (1983–1996), rejecting state-mandated social realism.
• Co-founded Nha San Studio (1998), Vietnam's first artist-led experimental art space; co-founded APD Center (2020) linking contemporary art a
• Works held by Guggenheim Museum, Art Jameel Dubai, Singapore Art Museum, National Gallery Singapore, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, and others.
• Recent survey 'Tầm Tã – Soaked in the Long Rain' (2024) traveled from Jameel Arts Centre Dubai to Govett-Brewster (New Zealand) and Art Gall
• Participated in Singapore Art Museum, Mori Art Museum Tokyo, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Fukuoka Asian Art Triennial, and 2013 Singapore Biennia
• Performances staged internationally across U.S., Singapore, China, Korea, Japan, Poland, Myanmar, and Indonesia.

Plan your visit

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