Viet Ha Tran

Member of the Board of Directors, The Royal Photographic Society of Spain.

Viet Ha Tran is a fine art photographer and multi-disciplinary artist whose name is officially listed in the art market Artprice (France) since 2015 and published in >100 newspapers and art magazines around the world. She has been commissioned by Amazon USA, Vogue Italia and Louis Vuitton Paris.

Her photographs have been featured on Expansión, El Economista, Vogue Italia, Vanity Fair France, The Times of India, The Hindu, Vietnam News, at Saatchi Gallery London, and were auctioned by Christie’s Hong Kong for charity.

VIet Ha's works have appeared in physical public auctions in Spain alongside works by Picasso, Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró, Banksy and Andy Warhol.

Viet Ha was a Jury member of IE Foundation Prizes in the Humanities at the prestigious IE University (Madrid, Spain) from 2016-2020. She also worked as Exhibition Manager and Curator for several exhibitions at IE University during this period. In addition, in 2015, some of her photographs were published in the academic literature book published by Universidad de las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain). In 2017, she co-authored the book (in Spanish) "Female Entrepreneurs: a way to be in this world" (Empresarias: una manera de estar en el mundo) talking about the challenges of the early days of her artist career. Most recently in 2023, Viet Ha is an art writer for IE Insight, the knowledge hub of the prestigious IE University (Spain)

Before becoming an artist, she worked in education, banking, market intelligence, business development and government relations in Japan, Singapore, Vietnam and Spain for over 15 years. In 2020 she left the corporate world to pursue her artistic dreams as a full time career.

Viet Ha was nominated in the top 200 Influential Vietnam Global Leaders 2019 (appointed by the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Vietnam Embassy in Spain).

Latest Artist News:

- Jan 2024: Guest speaker, Royal Spanish Photographic Society, Spain
- Nov 2023: co-author "Ideas to shape the future", IE University, Spain "The Future of Creating, Curating and Collecting Visual Arts"
- Aug 2023 - Aug 2026: Global Art Licensing by Amazon
- Oct 2023 - Feb 2024: Young Masters Invitational Exhibition, Cynthia Corbett Gallery, London
- October 2023: Blue Exhibition, The Glasgow Gallery of Photography, Glasgow, UK
- July 2023: Pre-selected, 170th Annual Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy of Arts, Bristol, UK
- July 2023: Pre-selected, 142nd RUA Annual Exhibition, Royal Ulster Academy of Arts, Belfast, UK
- July - Sep 2023: Summer Exhibition, Cynthia Corbett Gallery, London, UK
- June - Sep 2023: Summer Vibes, Arte in Salotto, Milan, Italy
- June 2023: Publication "Wall of Nature" in print issue June/July 2023 (10 pages), Aesthetica Magazine, UK
- May - June 2023: 197th Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture, Edinburgh, UK
- May 2023: art writer "The Future of Creating, Curating and Collecting Visual Arts", IE University, Madrid, Spain (top 10 European Business School, Financial Times Rankings)
- Mar 2023 – June 2023: Aesthetica Art Prize Exhibition, York Art Gallery, UK
- Feb 2023: 2nd Place, Still Life Photography Contest, Royal Spanish Photographic Society, Madrid, Spain
- Jan 2023: Nominee Photographer of the Year, Singulart Awards 2023, Paris, France

- Prado Museum Education (Madrid, Spain): Renaissance & Baroque Arts
- European Cultural Academy (Venice, Italy)
- EFTI Cinema and Photography Center (Madrid, Spain)
- IE Business School (Madrid, Spain)
- Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (Japan)
- Vietnam National University (Hanoi)

AWARDS:

- Honorable Mentions, Fine Art Category, International Photography Awards 2021
- Honorable Mentions, International Photography Awards 2019, Los Angeles, USA
- Honorable Mention, Fine Art Photography Awards 2019
- Finalist, Siena International Photography Awards 2019, Italy
- Winner, Photography Category, Artslant 5th Contest, USA
- Honorable Mention, Fine Art People, International Photography Awards 2013, September 2013, Los Angeles, USA
- Honorable Mention, Fine Art Nudes, International Photography Awards, September 2013, Los Angeles, USA
- Semifinalist, National Digital Photography Contest Canson Infinity,Spain, April 2013

PUBLICATIONS:

Expansión (Spanish national news)
El Economista (The Economist, Spain)
Saatchi Gallery London
Vogue Italia
Vogue Talents
Vanity Fair France
Harper's Bazaar Vietnam
The Hindu
The Times of India
Condé Nast Traveler China
Saatchi Gallery London
Christie´s Hong Kong
Brighton Photo Biennial
Vietnam News
CNBC Media
Vietnam Daily News
Widewalls
Mail Today
Cambodian Times
The Statesman
Art + Commerce New York, global largest photo agency
Artprice - world´s leading art market information
Aesthetica Magazine
The Luxury Chronicle
The Asian Age India
Showbiz Vietnam
Culture World Vietnam

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES:

JURY:
– Exhibition Manager and Curator, Exhibition “Women and Culture”, IE University (Campus in Madrid and Segovia), Feb – Mar 2020
– IE Foundation Prizes in the Humanities 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, IE University, Spain

ART SPEAKER:
– Communication Platforms in the art market, The Art Market Agency, Oct 2018
– Arte Online Madrid, The Art Market Agency, Oct 2017
– Technology and the art market, IE Business School, 2016

SOLO EXHIBITIONS IN THE LAST 3 YEARS:

- "The Female Gaze", Ducal Palace of Medinaceli, Spain, curated by Fundación DEARTE Contemporáneo
- "Wall of Nature", The Royal Mint Palace, Segovia, Spain
- "Dreams of Ophelia", Galería Materna y Herencia, Madrid
- "Woman Gaze", The Convent of Santa Cruz la Real, Segovia, Spain
- "I FEMME", Durán Auction House, Madrid
- "I FEMME", La Cárcel Cultural Center, Segovia, Spain
- "I FEMME", IE University, Madrid, Spain
- "I FEMME", Vietnam Embassy in Spain

Group exhibitions include: Arte in Salotto (Milan, Italy), Medinaceli Palace (Spain), Galerie Thorigny (Paris), Barnard Gallery (Cape Town, South Africa) and The Great Banyan Art (New Delhi).

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