Channeling subjects such as dream imagery, mycology, the psyche, and outer space, Tran explores the shapes of nature with the infusion of fantastical, pulsing synthetic hues. Through a plethora of media, cross-disciplinary practices, and collaborations, she generates atmosphere and activates spaces.
Public collections of Tran’s work include the City of Seattle's Portable Works Collection, Wynn Vegas, Capital One, Vulcan Inc., Baer Art Center, Camac Art Centre, The El Paso Children’s Hospital, Harborview Medical Center, The King County Public Art Collection, and The Child Center. Tran has completed multiple special projects and installations, including work for VH1Save the Music Foundation, The Upstream Music Fest, Hotel Studio Allston, The Seattle Art Museum, The Brain Project Toronto, Public Art at The Aqua Art Fair Miami, and Vulcan Inc. Most recently, Tran designed the album art for Topo Chico's "The Yellow Room: Seattle Sessions."
Tran has been awarded multiple fellowships and grants, including a Grant for Artist Projects (GAP) from Artist Trust, Clowes Fellowship for residency at the Vermont Studio Center, the Nellie Cornish Scholarship, residency at The Camac Art Center in France, Babayan Culture House in Turkey, Cill Rialaig in Ireland, The Baer Art Center in Iceland, Jentel, Millay Colony for the Arts, and The Center for Contemporary Printmaking. She maintains studios in Seattle and the Willamette Valley.

“Art world trends are a way to compartmentalize, or ration, soluble time frames for commerce, to be considered effective by those who foster systemic popularity. Clairvoyance is more about disregarded elements wandering in an ecosystem controlled by human impulse and the kinetic nature of escaping the now. Now, for me, is the warmth and preparation to abandon the skepticism of newer tools.”

“Identity is in matrimony with forms of etymology that can be utilized as scaffolding for normalized interpretations of who we can be. Conversely, I claw through my introspective impediments to forge some autonomy that isn't predetermined by calcified constructs. “Me” must be designed by self. Expressions are the molecules within this understanding.”

“Comprehension is a singular and almost socially barren exercise. It is always juxtaposed to conventional impressions of concept and language, a duality, a cerebral and emotional jungle. There is a behavioral indoctrination about our personal perspective that most people hold sacred. In my Rorschach-crafted geometry, the lineages of our insulated, secret debates are layered with apprehension, opening a fertile calvary of possibilities that should frankly be left to the grandeur of solitude.”

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