About Viet Ha Tran
Artist listed in the global art market Artprice. Viet Ha's works have been published in over 120 newspapers magazines. She is represented by Spain's most prestigious auction house Duran Auctions. She is also a public speaker about the art market and jury member of a renowned Spanish photography contest.
Viet Ha is a Vietnam-born and Spain-based fine art photographer known for her emotionally dense and endlessly compelling photographs of women. Her art emphasizes fantasy and imagination as a source of aesthetic experience.
She is a philanthropist who founded the charity art fund www.ifemme.org in 2017 which helps funding girls education in less fortunate Asian countries.
Apart from being included in Saatchi Art's multiple collections, printed catalog and newsletters, the artwork of Viet Ha has appeared in Vogue Italia and Vanity Fair France, Expansión, El Economista, The Times of India, Vietnam News, at Saatchi Gallery London, and have been auctioned by Christie’s Hong Kong for charity. She is listed as global artist by Artprice, the world leader in art market information, and represented by Art+Commerce/Vogue Italia - the largest global photo agency based in New York. She is currently represented by Spanish's No. 1 auction house Durán Arte y Subastas, Beijing-based gallery Hihey, New Delhi-based gallery The Great Banyan Art, Galerie Sophie Lanoe and My Web' Art from Paris.
Starting photography in 2013, in such a brief period Viet Ha's artworks have been published in over 120 different magazines and newspapers around the world. She was semi-finalist in the Spanish National Digital Photography Contest in April 2013, and won Honorable Mentions in the International Photography Awards 2013, Los Angeles. She was invited by Vogue Italia to photograph for Vogue Talents Shooting in April 2014. Her piece 'The Lotus Lake' was auctioned by Christie´s Hong Kong with highest bid of the auction in May 2015, and the profit was donated to charity.
Exhibitions:
- July 2018 - Solo Exhibition "Dreams of Ophelia" at Galeria Materna & Herencia, Madrid, Spain
- May 2018 - Solo Exhibition & Auction "IFEMME" at Vietnamese Embassy in Madrid, directed by Durán Auction House.
- March-April 2018 - Solo Exhibition "I FEMME" at La Real Casa de la Moneda (Royal Mint Palace), Segovia, Spain
- March 2018 - Exhibition "I FEMME" at the cultural gathering "Women who Change the World", La CARCEL, Segovia, Spain
- Solo Exhibition "I FEMME" at IE Business School, Nov-Dec 2017 (www.ifemme.org)
- First public auction at No.1 Spanish auction house - Duran Arte & Subastas, Nov 2017
- Speech at Arte Online Madrid, The Art Market Agency, Oct 2017
- Collective Exhibition "Femmes capitales" (Capital Women) at Galerie de Thorigny, Paris, Jan-Feb 2017
- Christmas Art Auction, Dec 15, 2016 Galeria Gaudi, Madrid
- Online auction, Oct-Dec, 2016 Setdart Auction House, Barcelona
- Collective Exhibition, Galería Gaudi, Madrid, Nov-Dec 2016
- Affordable Art Fair Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Oct 27th-30th, 2016, represented by Galería Gaudí (Madrid).
- Featured in the Spring Catalog & multiple curated collections of Saatchi Art since 2015.
- Collective Exhibition "The Tales of Art" by Great Banyan Art, at Ojas Art Gallery, New Delhi, India, March-April 2016.
- Artist of the Day, Saatchi Art Feb 2016.
- Featured in various curated collections of Saatchi Art's Chief Curator Rebecca Wilson "New this Week 04.01.2016", "New Photography", and other Saatchi collections "Impressionism", "Art for above the Mantlepiece", "Photography" etc.
- Collective Exhibition "Art and Artist", gallery Espacio Cultural Abierto, Sep 2015, Madrid, Spain
- Collective Exhibition at Medinacelli Palace, DeArte Foundation, May 2015, Spain
- Collective Exhibition "Self-portraits from here till elsewhere", organized by DansMonLabo, Paris, December 2014
- Collective Exhibition, Galerie Sophie Lanoe, Paris, November 2014
- Digital Exhibition "Night Contact" at Brighton Photo Biennial UK, October 2014
- Saatchi Gallery London, 2nd floor, Photo exhibition on Screen, August 7, 2014 -present
AWARDS:
- Winner, Photography Category, Artslant 5th Contest, USA
- Honorable Mention, Fine Art People, International Photography Awards 2013, September 2013, Los Angeles, USA
- Honorable Mention, Fine Art Nudes, International Photography Awards, September 2013, Los Angeles, USA
- Semifinalist, National Digital Photography Contest Canson Infinity,Spain, April 2013
