Vivian S. Tran (they/she) is an emerging artist and scholar based in Imnížaska Othúŋwe, Mni Sóta Maḳoce1. They graduated from Macalester College majoring in American Studies.
Their art and research is grounded in food, place, and memory.
Vivian grew up around Piabaigwici/Weendequint2 swimming in books surrounded by her siblings and cousins. She is of Người Ngái, 客家 (Hakka), 台山 (Toisanese), and 湘語 (Hunanese) descent.
In her spare time, she is cooking, lounging with Wasabi the cat and her partner, wandering around a neighborhood, working on jigsaw puzzles, watching films, playing cozy games, body doubling with her people in discord, and plotting another good scheme.
Research Interests: Asian American Studies, critical disability studies, visual culture/cultural studies, food studies, queer/feminist theory, abolition, and environment, contemporary social movements
Mediums: Acrylic, Relief Printmaking, Clay, Punch Needle
- Little White Rock City, the land where water reflects the sky is the unceded land of the Waȟpékhute band of Dakhóta Oyáte, known as St. Paul, Minnesota ↩︎
- Big Torrent (Western Shoshone) is the unceded land of the Shoshone, Paiute, Goshute, and Ute peoples, otherwise known as Big Cottonwood Creek (Western Shoshone/Ute) in Salt Lake City, Utah ↩︎