who is arlette?




Arlette Quỳnh-Anh Trần is an artist based in Saigon. Working across moving image, installation, performance, sound, and constructed objects, she builds temporal laboratories in which abandoned futures become active again. Her work draws on political dreams, obsolete technologies, failed utopias, and unfinished Third World imaginaries, not to recover the past, but to examine how they continue to return as desire, attachment, and disturbance in the present.

She co-founded the Art Labor collective, which operates at the intersection of visual art, social and life sciences through long-term projects in diverse public contexts and locales.

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Selected Solo Exhibitions

2026
Future Tense, ara contemporary, Jakarta

2025
PLATTENLOTUS, station urbaner kulturen / nGbK, Berlin

2024
iii.x_Unrealized Utopia, Gallery Medium, Saigon

Selected Exhibitions and Screenings
2025
The Utopia of Rules, TWorks, Singapore
Bảy nổi ba chìm — Seven up Three down, Hessel Museum of Art, New York
Elysium without Shores, International Film Festival Rotterdam; Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen; Vilnius Short Film Festival

2024
Dream Screen, Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul
Cloud Chamber, Para Site, Hong Kong
Prospect.6: the future is present, the harbinger is home, New Orleans

2023
Revolutionary Romances, Albertinum, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

2022
Posthuman: Storytelling for Earthly Survival, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju

Selected Awards, Grants and Residencies
2026
Graham Foundation Grant
Artist-in-residence, Art Explora, Paris
Artist-in-residence, tra-travel, Osaka

2025
Asian Cultural Council’s New York Fellowship Program

2023
Teiger Foundation Research Grant

2022
Art in Networks Fellowship, Technische Universität Dresden
Margaret F. Williams Memorial Fellowship, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco

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