b. 2002 Toronto, Canada
Education
2025 BFA School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts, Boston, MA
2025 BS in Cognitive and Brain Science, Tufts University, Medford, MA
2023 Yale Norfolk School of Art, Norfolk, CT
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitons
2026 as long as the sun lasts with An Hà, Rose Kennedy Greenway, Boston, MA
2026 because you are the sun; because you are the thread, Auntie Kay & Uncle Frank Chin Park, Rose Kennedy Greenway, Boston, MA
2025 Episodic Sculpture #3, Club Curate, Allston, MA
2024 Near and Tenderly with Jon Lewis Fiona, Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency, Saugatuck, MI
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026 Today, Durational Pedagogies Fellowship Exhibition, Dia Chelsea, New York, NY
2026 A Shell, A Peel, A Pause, Unbound Visual Arts, Brighton, MA
2025 Everything Must Go, Piano Craft Gallery, Boston, MA
2025 On Refuge: 50 Years of Recomposition, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
2025 Tracing the Familiar, Behind VA Shadows, Cambridge, MA
2025 And then there is the never ending problem of everything else, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2025 SMFA Media Arts Annual, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2025 Willful Dialects, No Call No Show x Distillery Gallery, Boston, MA
2025 Movement/s, Emerson Contemporary, Boston, MA
2025 Lunch Break, The Sipping Room by Breeze, Boston, MA
2024 Shot Through the Heart, Betsy Gallery, Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency, Saugatuck, MI
2024 The Coat Room, Ox-Bow House, Douglas, MI
2024 The Leisure Class, School of Survival, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
2024 A Window at A Space, A Space, Brooklyn, NY
2024 Yušká: Uncoil, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
2024 Sculpture and Fibers Annual Show, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2024 Painting and Drawing Biennial, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2024 Fresh Faces, Abigail Oglivy Gallery, Boston, MA
2023 Marketplace, Club Curate, Subcentral, Cambridge, MA
2023 Reunion, Northern Contemporary, Toronto, ON
2023 Our Histories, Our Futures, Tufts University Art Galleries, Medford, MA
2022 Justify the Fish, Piano Craft Gallery, Boston, MA
2022 as everywhere red goes green, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2022 Return and Renewal, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2021 Unrest, Tufts University Art Galleries, Medford, MA
2021 Photo and Digital Media Area Show, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2021 Duct Tape, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2020 Meet Me in Between, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2020 Unwashed, Kunstverein Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
2019 Boundaries, Flash Forward Incubator, Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, ON
Curatorial
2025 Placeholder, Friends Meeting at Cambridge, Copenger, Cambridge, MA
Residencies, Fellowships, and Awards
2026 On Other Archives, Thematic Residency, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, AL
2026 Ongoing Platforms Grant (with Copenger), Collective Futures Fund, Boston, MA
2025-26 Durational Pedagogies Fellowship, Dia Chelsea, New York, NY
2025 Best Film/Video, Media Arts Annual, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2025 Dana Pond Award, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2024 LeRoy Neiman Fellowship, Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency, Saugatuck, MI
2024 Julie Graham Prize, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2023 Museum Council Sculpture Prize, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2023 Dean’s Research Award, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2021 Tufts University Community Prize, Boxed Art Gallery, Medford, MA
2021 Painting and Drawing Department Award, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2020 Edward Lam Scholarship, Etobicoke School of the Arts, Toronto, ON
2019 CUE Art Projects Grant Recipient, Toronto, ON
Talks
2026 Panel with An Hà, moderated by Laurel V. McLaughlin at Pao Arts Center, Rose Kennedy Greenway, Boston, MA
2026 Artist Talk, Rose Kennedy Greenway, Boston, MA
Press
2026 “‘A Shell, A Peel, A Pause’ Finds Magic in the Everyday,” Boston Art Review, Boston, MA
2026 “Artist Vivian Tran Spins Through Generations in Greenway Show,” Sampan, Boston, MA
2024 Almost Close to Very Nearly Nothing, Currents Magazine, Boston, MA
2025 “Grounding Force,” School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2021 Trinity Review 133, University of Toronto - Trinity College, Toronto, ON
2020 A5 #36, A5 Magazine, London, UK
2020 Liminal: Interstices Between and Betwixt, Toronto, ON
2020 Trinity Review 132, University of Toronto - Trinity College, Toronto, ON
2019 Flash Forward Incubator, Magenta Foundation, Toronto, ON
2019 A5 #25, A5 Magazine, London, UK
2019 Trinity Review 131, University of Toronto - Trinity College, Toronto, ON