Kieu Tran
Artist at Studio Kieu
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKieu Tran is a first-generation Vietnamese American artist based in Oakland who transitioned from a six-year software engineering career to become a full-time ceramic sculptor in 2021. She creates elegant, biomorphic ceramic works that sit between abstraction and the figurative, aiming to evoke emotion and a sense of shared humanity without words. Trained in art history at UCLA with study stints in Italy and Germany, she combines deep visual literacy with a pragmatic, engineering-honed approach to problem solving and craft. Her prior engineering roles at Broadly and Prezi gave her experience building reliable full-stack systems, a discipline she now applies to studio practice, production, and audience building. Despite no formal studio training, her sculptures have been featured in Interior Design, Surface, and Sight Unseen and have attracted a growing collector base. An intriguing throughline in her career is the ease with which she reinvented herself—moving from tech to art while bringing rigorous technical habits to creative studio systems.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Art History German Language and Culture, Art History German Language and Culture at Freie Universität BerlinArt History Italian Language and Culture, Art History Italian Language and Culture at Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di BolognaUniversity of California, Los Angeles
English, Vietnamese, Italian
Github Skills (19)
vintage8
medium7
explore7
etsy7
trust6
chrome5
github-issues5
measurements4
filter4
lzf4
nodejs2
compression2
snappy2
data-storage2
transformation-matrix1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kieut/notclothesminded_etsy_app
Jul 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:67 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 10 months
measurementsvintageetsyfilter
kieut/hackentinesday
Feb 2014 - Feb 2014
Contributions:2 commits in 1 day
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