Truong Tran (born 1969 in Ho Chi Minh City) is a Vietnamese-American poet, visual artist, and teacher.
Tran was born in Saigon prior to his family emigrating to the United States and settling in the San Francisco Bay Area.
[4] In February 2010, Tran debuted his first solo exhibition as a visual artist, "the lost and the found", at the Kearney Street Workshop in San Francisco.
In 2014, his show at the Telegraph Hill Gallery garnered international attention, in part because it featured "9,000 paper butterflies individually cut from old pornographic magazines" as a protest of what Tran considered the "obscenity" of the destruction of 9000 living butterflies by Damien Hirst as a by-product of a piece of Hirst's art.
[6][7][8] In March, 2015 Tran's work was exhibited in a joint show with artist Jaime Cortez to innaguerate the new gallery space in California Institute of Intgeral Studies.