Lu HB Tran
Primarily focusing on understanding familial ties, Lu’s work explores the concept of a homeland, a sense of place, visibility, and memory. They romanticize the mundane, cementing brief, fleeting moments into something visual, into obsessive and recurrent thoughts, into long, meandering sentences. Their work is a monologue, an attempt at an offering, aching for connection, but consistently moving adjacently, failing to make contact.

EDUCATION
Current Studio Art MFA Candidate at The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2020 - BA in Art and Visual Technology, Painting
Minor in Photography at George Mason University
EXHIBITIONS
2021 - Conjuring Presence | Loop Collabratory
2021 - Short Film Showcase | DC DADA Art
2020 - Experimental Online Gallery | Verum Non-Verum Gallery
2020 - UHAULED | Target Gallery & Norfolk Neon District
2020 - My Queer Valentine | Target Gallery
2019 - Somewhere Between You and Me | Olly Olly
2019 - March 150 | Target Gallery
2019 - Caboose Commons Pop-Up Show | Caboose Commons
2018 - Inner Demons | Epicure
2017 - Ipseity | Target Gallery
2016 - Carport Collective Pop-Up Show
PUBLISHED WORK
2020 - Me and My Wife's Penis in DRIP Magazine; Issue 04
2020 - My Wife's Penis and Me in Leste Magazine; Issue 09
2019 - Don't Cut Your Hair or You'll Look Like a Dyke (And Other Pieces of Advice From My Mom) in WMN Zine; Issue 1