Tran Thi Thu Ha, the Romantic, is born on the 28th of October 1952 in Hue. There, she has developed a keen perception of the beauty of things probably helped by the enchanting cadre of the Perfumes’ River, the dilapidated but grandiose charm of its royal tombs or the legendary grace of its young women.
The artist has a vast source of inspirations and she is as much astonishing and at ease in her figurative paintings and her poetic dreams than in her abstract paintings or flowers and cat that she can paint with so much force and grace. Tran Thi Thu Ha paints life with naivety and simplicity but some of the colours she uses and the force she inputs add a particular sparkle to her work. Besides her occupation as an artist she takes care with her husband of one of the most beautiful and oldest gallery of Saigon.
1952 Born in Hue City, Vietnam.
Since 1989 Director/owner of Tu Do Gallery
1991 Solo exhibition Tu Do Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
1992 Solo exhibition Dragonfly Gallery, Canberra, Australia
Solo exhibition Hungarian Club, Canberra, Australia.
Solo exhibition Regatta Point, Canberra, Australia.
1993 Solo exhibition Chapter Restaurant, Center Hong Kong
Solo exhibition Lovell White Durant Office, Center Hong Kong.
1994 Solo exhibition Tu Do Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Group exhibition Nordiska Museum, Katrineholm, Sweden
1995 Group exhibition Fine Arts Museum of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
1997 Solo exhibition H & S Gallery, Brussels, Belgium.
Solo exhibition Tu Do Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Group exhibition Art Museum of University of Queensland, Brisban, Australia
Group exhibition H & S Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Group exhibition Fine Arts Association of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Group exhibition Tu Do Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
1998 Group exhibition Art Museum of University of Queensland, Brisban, Australia
Group exhibition Fine Arts Museum of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Group exhibition Fine Arts Association of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Group exhibition Tu Do Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
1999 Group exhibition Fine Arts Association of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Group exhibition Tu Do Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Group exhibition Gaalaxy Club, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
2000 Group exhibition Tu Do Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
2002 Group exhibition Beauty Art Gallery, Singapore
Group exhibition Fine Arts Association of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Group exhibition Tu Do Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
2003 Group exhibition Fine Arts Association of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Group exhibition Tu Do Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Group exhibition Gaalaxy Club, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
2004 Solo exhibition Tu Do Art, Houston, Texas, USA.
2006 Solo exhibition Tu Do Art, Houston, Texas, USA.
2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Group exhibitions at the Tu Do Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
2011 solo exhibition, “Tran Thi Thu Ha – Twenty Years in Art,” at Tu Do (Liberty) Gallery, Saigon