b. 1999
Bachelor’s of Fine Arts (Animation), VCA, 2020

Jenn Tran is a Vietnamese-Australian multidisciplinary artist working in the fields of moving image, textile and animation in Melbourne/Naarm.

She primarily practises in experimental animation and documentary cine-essays, intertwining alternative dialogues and animated realms. Her films have been shown at Sydney Film Festival, SEVENTH Gallery & Composite Moving Image.

Her residencies have included Center for Projection Art & Air Hue (Vietnam). Jenn is also a volunteer radio presenter on Triple R and is a member of Artist Film Workshop– an analog film lab in Brunswick East.

jenntran.contact@gmail.com
@jenn___tran
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Photo by Nu @soi.sane during residency at AirHuế

Education
2018-2020: University of Melbourne - Bachelor of Fine Art, Animation 

Filmography
2024: A Kite Poem, dir. Jenn Tran
2023: ‘Steve’. dir. Richard Lewer
2022: How To Build A Forest, dir. Jenn Tran
2022: Smoke Taint, Heir Traffic, Marthouse Records 
2021: GOD IS IN THE MOUNTAINS, dir. Jenn Tran
2021: The Formation of a Cloud, dir. Jenn Tran
2021: Do Animals Know Faith?, dir. Jenn Tran
2021: Solar Loops, dir. Jenn Tran
2021: 1119 SUNSPOT DRAWINGS & 14 CARTOONS OF THE SUN, dir. Jenn Tran

Group Shows & Solo
October 2025: (forthcoming) Blindside Gallery, VIC
April 2025: Pari Ari, SYD
October 2024: Blindside Gallery - 20 Years Fundraiser, VIC
November 2023: SOLIDARITY FUNDRAISER For Palestine: TCB Gallery, VIC
August 2023: MILK Gallery Final Group Show, VIC
August 2023: Composite Moving Image, [solo] VIC
July 2023: Footscray Art Prize 2023, Footscray Community Arts, VIC
April 2022: SEVENTH Gallery, [solo], VIC 

Group Screenings
June 2025: Zero Pixel, Artist Film Workshop, TAS
April 2025: Tyler & Friends @Seventh Gallery, VIC
October 2024: Centre For Projection Art, Collingwood Yards, Fringe Festival, VIC
August 2024: Centre For Projection Art, Federation Square, VIC
August 2024: Now or Never, Refracting Relations: SIGNAL Arts, VIC
April 2024: moviejuice, SA
Feburary 2024: Artist Film Workshop: ART+ FILM, VIC 
October 2023: Robin Boyd Foundation: DaDo Film Society, VIC 
May 2023: Powerhouse x Temporary Position, SYD
December 2022:Churchill Public Art, Tellos, VIC
July 2022:(Dis)topia Australis, (Dis)solution Magazine, VIC
June 2022: Same River Twice, Emerging Writer’s Festival, VIC   
April 2022: Outdoor Screening Programme, Bunjil Place, VIC
March 2022: MILK Cinema, Milk Gallery, VIC
August 2021: 21 Frames Per Second, 24memespersecond, USA [online]
July 2021: FAITH 09, Caliper Journal, VIC
June 2021: “The Sun”, Light from Space, USA [online]
November 2020: Graduate Exhibition, MIFF Play [online], VIC

Residencies
2025: Air Huế, Artist in Residence, Huế, VN 
2024: Centre For Projection Art, Winter Residency, VIC 

Film Festivals
October 2023: Australian Shorts, Adelaide Film Festival, SA
June 2023: FLUX: ART+FILM, Sydney Film Festival, SYD
May 2022: Homegrown Shorts, Human Rights & Arts Film Festival, VIC
October 2021: Canberra Short Film Festival, CBR

Relevant Work
2024 - present: Triple R Radio Presenter (Graveyard Shift)
2023 – present: Artist Film Workshop, VIC
2022 – present: Art Technician, VIC

Awards and Grants:
Footscray Art Prize (shortlist)
Human Rights & Arts Film Festival – Emerging Filmmakers Fund
Orloff Family Charitable Trust Scholarship (Screenwriting)
Harry Hains Memorial Trust

Panel Discussions:
Human Rights & Arts Film Festival
DaDo Film Society (Robin Boyd Foundation)