Born in 1989 in Philadelphia, PA, Jean Tran is a designer and artist currently working on the original territories of the Tongva peoples (Los Angeles, CA). Her practice emerges through cycles of solitude, sustained attention, and prolonged states of making. She approaches each body of work as a place where emotional truth can be held without narration.

Working across ceramics and painting, Tran is drawn to the quiet tension between what is guided by the hand and what is surrendered to time, gravity, and chance. Each piece is less an act of expression than an artifact of a lived, meditative process—often feeling complete before it is fully understood.

Her work operates symbolically, allowing experiences of grief, memory, and transformation to be metabolized indirectly through form, surface, and negative space. These objects bear witness to what needed to be held before it was ready to be seen, carrying a quiet urgency and devotional presence that asks not to be interpreted, but encountered.