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Tran was born in Vietnam, and now lives in the United States. He worked as a bioengineer for many years. Upon leaving the tech world he returned to his first love, Art, and is basically self-taught. Depending on the subject his practice used the abstract and figurative style to explore our human condition.

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He first painted Icons, a series of pop portraits  - with a twist - of world icons such as Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Marilyn Monroe, the Dalai Lama, Jackson Pollock, Frida Kahlo, and others,

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He followed with the series Legends & Myths  viewing current socio-political realities in his home country Vietnam through a satirical lens. The series was shown at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Hanoi, Vietnam under the sponsorship of UNESCO. A number of works were deemed subversive by the Vietnamese government, and consequently banned.

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Subsequently he switched to a more universal geometric abstract visual language to investigate the precariousness of the physical, emotional and spiritual world.Thus the series Precarious Equilibrium of Ambivalent States were developed.

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In 2020, he responded to the covid pandemic and political turmoil with the series Lost & Found in the Time of INfection, tackling burning issues of our time (climate change, criminal justice, threats to democracy, cult of violence) while conveying hopeful manifestations of humanity (community, love, healing.)

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Most recently he is working on the multimedia installation projects Songs For The Immigrants and The Emperor's Children.