Gilles Tran - Curriculum vitae Web: |
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2000-present | Personal online gallery www.oyonale.com. Oyonale - Graphic Experiments features several hundreds of pictures created since 1993, many of them being part of a perpetual work in progress called The book of beginnings that mixes digital art and unfinished short stories in both French and English. The gallery also contains experimental web-based works including several textual and graphic generators, as well as various tools, tutorials and resources for 3D artists. |
1995-2000: | Personal online gallery hosted at the Institut National de l'Audiovisuel |
In addition to his personal website, Gilles Tran’s artwork is featured on a large number of personal and commercial websites, including Saatchi-gallery.co.uk, raph.com, zazzle.com, povray.org, wikipedia.com among others | |
Other projects |
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2004: | Infinite spire and fallen headstones, architectural renderings created for a design proposal by Brian McConnell (USA) for the World Trade Center Memorial in New York City |
2001-2002 | Reach for the stars, artwork created in collaboration with Jaime Vives Piqueres (Spain), rendered in space in April 2002 on board of the International Space Station by astronaut Mark Shuttleworth (South Africa) |
Conferences |
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- Presentation, Salon international du livre et de la presse (International book and press fair), Geneva, May 1998 |
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Exhibition history |
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2003: | Peaux de vaches et autres artistes (Cow hides and other artists), March 3 to April 4, Marche en Famenne, Belgium |
2001: | Galerie Connectik, Lyon, France |
1998 | Galerie 147, INRA, Paris, France |
1997: | - Digipainters ’97, Rome, Italy - Exposition Art & Science, Hopital Cochin, Paris, France |
1996: | 2e Salon des Agro-exposants, Paris, France |
1995: | 1er Salon des Agro-exposants, Paris, France |
Published works and interviews | |
2006: | Interview and image in Thanh Nien (Youth, August 30), Viet Nam |
2005: | - Interview and portfolio in Micro Photo Video (issue n°5), France - Interview and portfolio in The123D.com http://www.the123d.com/interviews/gilles_tran/gilles_tran01.shtml - Images featured in Digital Design of Nature: Computer Generated Plants and Organics, by Oliver Deussen, Bernt Lintermann, Springer, Germany |
2004: | - Cover and small portfolio in 3D World (issue n°47), UK - Cover and article in Informatik Spektrum (27/1), Germany |
2003: | - Images featured in Äîìàøíèé êîìïüþòåð (Home Computer, issues n°10 and 12), Russia - Images featured in Creative Live (Sept/Oct/Nov), Germany - Images featured in The Complete Guide to Digital Illustration, by Steve Caplin, Adam Banks, Nigel Holmes, The Ilex Press Ltd, UK - Images featured in Computergenerierte Pflanzen: Technik Und Design Digitaler Pflanzenwelten, by Oliver Deussen, Springer, Germany - Cover image for In the eye of time, CD album by Vox-Tempus, USA |
2002: | - Interview and cover image in Studio Multimedia (issue n°41), France - Interview and portfolio in Design Graphics (issue n°85, August), Australia - Cover image for Tables de Composition et de valeur nutritionnelle des matieres premieres destinees aux animaux d’elevage, by Daniel Sauvant, Jean-Marc Perez and Gilles Tran, INRA Editions, France (also for the English, Spanish and Chinese editions). |
2000: | - Image featured in GW Graphic World (issue n°5), Japan - Cover image for Congelation et qualite de la viande, by Claude Genot, INRA Editions, France |
1999: | Interview in Le Monde (8 juin 1999), France |
1997: | Image featured in Computer Grafica, Italy |
Awards |
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2006: | Wikipedia Picture of the Day, August 2 |
2004: | Inducted into the Persistance of Vision Raytracer Hall of Fame (14 images) |
2001: | - Winner of the Internet Raytracing Competition, November-December round "Spirit of Asia" - Winner of the Internet Raytracing Competition, November, March-April round "Fortress" |
2000: | - Winner of the Internet Raytracing Competition, November-December round "Contrast" - Winner of the Internet Raytracing Competition, November, March-April round "City" |
1999: | Winner of the Internet Raytracing Competition, November-December round "Gardens" |