A.R.TRAN
ARTIST, WRITER, EDUCATOR

ABOUT / CV


My Love Is Your Love—It Tells Me to Go to War

Marketplace of Id

Untitled (Spa Scene, After Ana Mendieta)

Where There’s Smoke,
Be Water

If You Meet The Buddha,
Burn Him Alive

Sacred Nonpotable
Water(boarding) Fountain

From Baldwin to Nhat Hanh

Untitled (Quilt for a
Burning House)






artranstudio@gmail.com | @artranartranartra

b. 1993 in Monterey Park, CA; living in Los Angeles, CA.

A.R. Tran is an artist, writer and educator working at the intersection of cultural criticism and conceptual art through hybrid and time-based forms. Focusing on the overlapping themes of love and suffering, Tran’s interdisciplinary practice makes meaningful connections between socially engaged Buddhism and intergenerational legacies of survival. 

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