Trần Thảo Miên (b.1991) is an installation and visual artist. After graduating from the University of the Art London, majoring in Textiles, Mien has developed her embroidery techniques using monofilament yarn on various types of fashion waste and found natural elements. Guided by the diverse tapestry of Southeast Asian culture along with her endless curiosity of modern environmental science, Mien intertwines spiritual essence into her soft textured sculptures, embodying reverence for “Vạn vật hữu linh” - Vietnamese beliefs of the individuality and equality of every living being on Earth, she reimagines the order of nature, questioning established hierarchies that lie beyond human grasp.
Notable exhibitions include Means of Productions (Lunch Hour, NY, United States, 2024), Mind & Machines (Vietnamese Women’s Museum, Hanoi & Hai An Gallery, HCMC, 2023), Open Studio (San-Art, HCMC, 2023), A blink in a spacetime (The International Centre for Interdisciplinary Science and Education (ICISE), Quy Nhon, 2022), The Foliage IV (Vincom Center for Contemporary Art, Hanoi, 2022), Sign Chorus (Old Soul, Da Nang, 2022), Citizen Earth (Vietnam Museum of Biology, Hanoi, 2020). She is a Fellow of Mekong Cultural Hub’s Creative Action (2024), participant of KOFICE’s CPI Cultural Experts Training Program (South Korea, 2024), and Recipient of Inclusion Award, Goethe Institut Hanoi (2024); besides hosting workshops and talk in educational programs organised by RMIT University (Vietnam), Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (Singapore), and takes part in sustainability-related research from Pratt Institute (United States).
Mien also co-founded Vietnam Design award-winning Collective Sonson, which extends her passion for sustainability in creating modern living spaces infused with Vietnamese identity. She is also the founding member of ddur.productions – an open collective that specifically supports exhibition projects and AiRViNe – Artist-in-residency Vietnam Network.