11 Facts About Truong Tran

Truong Tran is an author of five collections of poetry and a children's book.

Truong Tran's work is in private collections, and he has been honored with solo shows and an exhibition catalog "I Meant to Say Please Pass the Sugar: Mixed Media Works 2009- Present".

Truong Tran was born in Saigon prior to his family emigrating to the United States and settling in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Truong Tran has taught at UC Berkeley Extension CSU Long Beach and Goddard College.

Truong Tran received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1992.

Truong Tran received a Master of Fine Arts degree from San Francisco State University in 1995.

Truong Tran's poetry has been translated into Spanish, Dutch and French.

Truong Tran was the featured poet at the Poetry International Festival in Rotterdam in 2011.

In February 2010, Truong Tran debuted his first solo exhibition as a visual artist, "the lost and the found", at the Kearney Street Workshop in San Francisco.

In 2014, his show at the Telegraph Hill Gallery garnered international attention, in part because it featured "9,000 paper butterflies individually cut from old pornographic magazines" as a protest of what Truong Tran considered the "obscenity" of the destruction of 9000 living butterflies by Damien Hirst as a by-product of a piece of Hirst's art.

In March, 2015 Truong Tran's work was exhibited in a joint show with artist Jaime Cortez to innaguerate the new gallery space in California Institute of Intgeral Studies.