R. Streitmatter-Tran's Page

Website

http://www.diacritic.org

Relationship status

single

College / University

Massachusetts College of Art

Program

Studio for Interrelated Media (SIM)

Graduation

May 10, 2003

Member type

Artist

If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?

Conceptual, Installation, Performance, Photography, Sculpture, Video

I am...

an artist living and working in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. I received my degree in the Studio for Interrelated Media (SIM) at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston.

I am an Asia Pacific correspondent for Art.Es (Madrid) and Ho Chi Minh City editor for Contemporary (London). I was awarded the 2005 Martell Contemporary Asian Art Research Grant in 2005 with the Asia Art Archive in Hong Kong for my year-long research project, Mediating the Mekong. I was a speaker on contemporary art at the Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations (HPAIR) in Tokyo 2005 and Teaching Fellow at Harvard University (2000-2004), conducted media arts research at the MIT Media Lab (2000), and Visiting Lecturer at the Ho Chi Minh Fine Arts University in 2003.

I am currently Lecturer at RMIT University Vietnam and Academic Advisor to MoCA China.

About my artwork

My work, solo and collaborative, has been exhibited in several cities in the United States, Europe and Asia including the 52nd Venice Biennale; the Singapore Biennale 2006; the 2004 Gwangju Biennale; 2005 Pocheon Asian Art Festival; ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany, Asia Art Now at Arario Beijing, the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin, the Blue Space Gallery in Ho Chi Minh City, the 7th Asiatopia Performance Art Festival in Bangkok, Art Tech Media 06 in Barcelona.

Upcoming exhibitions in 2008 include the Singapore Art Museum (May), Eslite Gallery in Taiwan (June), the Singapore Biennale 2008 and the Ke Center for Contemporary Arts in Shanghai. Writing and curatorial projects include The Mekong Art and Culture Project and the Asia Pacific Triennial (APT6) for 2009.

I am a member of the Ho Chi Minh City-based arts collective, Mogas Station, and a founding member of the now defunct art and performance group ProjectOne.

Interests

Natural light, exhibition openings, people watching, lists, pomade, rockabilly, moleskine notebooks, rechargable batteries, broadband, tax refunds, anagrams, thai massages, typography, drag queens, vespa scooters, smoove b, everything coconut, book browsing, mixed martial arts, scratching feet, helena bonham carter in fight club, cereal at night and avalanches of books