Tony Tran

Sydney, Australia

Tony Tran is an emerging contemporary artist whose practice revolves around using the mediums of sculpture and photography to construct images with numinous intensities stemming from the recesses of his psyche and imagination that gleans upon intertwining and abstracting his Asian identity within a westernised culture. His works often respond to a yearning to seek new spiritual representation and iconography through navigating the landscape of cultural alienation and secular pessimism. Hence, his practice consists of making reimagined altar-like images and sculptures that attempt to merge and collapse disparate myths, cultures, and ideas of classicism from pan-Asian and European influences to cultivate a new cultural identity. He has exhibited his works throughout Sydney, Melbourne and London and has been awarded an Honorable Mention for his series ‘Ornafanum-Vacui’ from the Tokyo International Foto Awards in 2022. He is a recent BFA graduate who is born and raised in unceded Eora land (Sydney, Australia) from his immigrated Vietnamese parents.

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