Viet Ha Tran

Viet Ha Tran

Madrid, Madrid, Spain

About Viet Ha Tran

Visit my website at www.viethatran.com 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. Her works have appeared in Vogue Italia and Vanity Fair France, 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 two art galleries from Paris. Starting photography in 2013, in such a brief period Viet Ha's artworks have been published in over 90 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. Later, in autumn of 2014, her works appeared at Brighton Photo Biennial, UK's largest photography festival. Also, 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.

Education:

- Prado Museum (Madrid, Spain): Renaissance & Baroque Arts, 2018

- European Cultural Academy (Venice, Italy): The Art Market, 2017

- EFTI Cinema and Photography Center (Madrid, Spain): 2013

Events:

Artist listed in the global art market Artprice. Viet Ha's works have been published in over 120 newspapers magazines.

PUBLICATIONS include:

Expansión (Spanish national news)
El Economista (The Economist, Spain)
Vogue Italia
Vogue Talents
Vanity Fair France
Harper's Bazaar Vietnam
The Hindu
The Times of India
Condé Nast Traveler China
Saatchi Gallery London
Christie´s Hong Kong
Brighton Photo Biennial
Vietnam News
CNBC Media
Vietnam Daily News
Widewalls
Mail Today
Cambodian Times
The Statesman
Art + Commerce New York, global largest photo agency
Artprice - world´s leading art market information
Aesthetica Magazine
The Luxury Chronicle
The Asian Age India
Showbiz Vietnam
Culture World Vietnam

SOME EXCLUSIVE ARTICLES/INTERVIEWS:

The Fashion Globe: http://www.thefashionglobe.com/viet-ha-tran

Aesthetica Magazine: http://www.aestheticamagazine.com/449422-2/

Vogue Italia: http://www.vogue.it/en/talents/talents-shooting/2014/05/the-return-of-romanticism

Vietnam News:

http://vietnamnews.vn/life-style/279229/madrid-based-vietnamese-photographer-releases-new-collection.html

http://vietnamnews.vn/sunday/features/253031/photographer-takes-turn-in-the-spotlight.html

PUBLICATION ON VOGUE ITALY: http://www.vogue.it/photovogue/portfolio/?id=33068

Exhibitions:

- 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