Richard started following the work of RAHAH HAJI HASAN, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS), Faculty of Applied and Creative Arts.
Richard started following the work of Poppy Le, RMIT International University Vietnam, Bachelor of Multimedia Design.
Richard started following the work of 10 people.
Richard Preparing for the Asia Triennial Manchester 2011 on Oct 1 and a presentation at Institute of International Visual Arts in London (INIVA) on Oct 3.
Artist
About
Richard STREITMATTER-TRAN (b. 1972, Bien Hoa, Vietnam) is an artist and lecturer based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He received his degree in the Studio for Interrelated Media (SIM) at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston.
His solo and collaborative work has been exhibited internationally including Kandada Art Space in Tokyo, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery in Hong Kong, the Singapore Biennale (2008/2006), Ke Center for Contemporary Art in Shanghai, Eslite Gallery in Taiwan, 52nd Venice Biennale, Shenzhen and Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale 2007, 4th Guangzhou Triennial, Asian Triennial Manchester 2011, Singapore Art Museum, Thermocline of Art: New Asian Waves at ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany, Asia Art Now at Arario Beijing, 1st Pocheon Asian Art Festival, Gwangju Biennale 2004, the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin, Chula Art Center in Bangkok, the Asiatopia Performance Art Festival, and Art Tech Media 06 in Barcelona.
He was an arts correspondent for the Madrid-based magazine Art.Es and and Ho Chi Minh City editor for Contemporary and has been published in several catalogs and periodicals. He was awarded the 2005 Martell Contemporary Asian Art Research Grant from the Asia Art Archive in Hong Kong for his year-long research project, Mediating the Mekong. During 2008-2009, he served as Academic Advisor for MOCA China. He was Teaching Assistant (TA) at Harvard University (2000-2004), conducted media arts research at the MIT Media Lab (2000), a Visiting Lecturer at the Ho Chi Minh Fine Arts University in 2003.
He has lectured, assisted students and presented research at the Sotheby's Institute of Art, Singapore; School of the Art Institute Chicago (SAIC), The Massachusetts College of Art (MassArt), Northern Illinois University; Hong Kong Arts Development Council/Parasite Art Space; Kandada Art Space Tokyo; Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (NL); The Harvard Project for International Relations (HPAIR), Asia Art Archive, Bangkok University, the Singapore Management University (SMU), ArtSonje (Seoul) and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin).
In 2005 he became a founding member of Mogas Station, a group of international creators (artists and architects) based in Ho Chi Minh City, working to promote and present contemporary art in Vietnam. Its members came together in 2005 to create Ạart, the very first artist initiated bilingual contemporary Ạart magazine in Vietnam launched at the Singapore Biennale 2006. Their second major work, Rokovoko, premiered at the 52nd Venice Biennale as an official collateral event with Migration Addicts project.
As co-curator he developed the platform, The Mekong, with curator Russell Storer of the Queensland Art Gallery for the Asia Pacific Triennale (APT6) in 2009. In the spring of 2010, he founded the contemporary art experiment, DIA/PROJECTS.
He is currently Senior Lecturer in Design at RMIT International University Vietnam in Ho Chi Minh City.
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