Anh Tran is a Vietnamese born and Naarm/Melbourne-based artist and transdisciplinary designer who works with digital filmmaking, virtual reality (VR), extended reality (XR), immersive exhibition, sound and costume design and artificial intelligence.

Her practice in digital narrative explores the integration of emerging technologies to promote environmental consciousness. By working with emerging digital technologies, she situates her works to re-define our perception of the environment and cultivate a sensibility that extends beyond human perspectives.

Transitioning from an interior design background to digital narrative practice, Anh aims to advocate for environmental conciousness, feminism and multicultural sensitivity. Her artworks are dedicated to deepening our understanding and appreciation of nature’s intricacies through immersive experiences, embracing complexity, uncertainty, and a non-binary perspective. This approach allows Anh to underscore the potential of immersive experiences, pushing the boundary of storytelling and technology to foster ecological awareness and emphasises the importance of addressing these complex issues through a non-anthropocentric lens.

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Education

Bachelor of Interior Design (Honours), RMIT University, Melbourne (2019 - 2023)
Advance Diploma of Translating, RMIT University, Melbourne (2017)

Projects & Exhibition

2025 - Hyper Birrarung YCL, Signal Young Creatives Lab, supporting artist collaboration with Liwen Lian
2025 - Chorus of the Underwater Matters Verse 1.0, Before Nightfall | Immersive Digital Worlds and Live Performances, group exhibition, Melbourne Design Week 2025
2025 - Before Nightfall | Immersive Digital Worlds And Live Performances, curator, Melbourne Design Week 2025
2024 - RMIT Culture Graduate Residency, RMIT Culture
2024 - Interdependence, group exhibition, Politecnico di Milano, Milan Design Week 2024
2023 - Otherworldly Expedition: The Sentient City, group exhibition, Bates Smart Award short-listed, Bates Smart Gallery
2023 - Otherworldly Expedition: The Sentient City, group exhibition, INDEX Exhibition, Design Hub Gallery, RMIT
2023 - In The Eyes Of The Bats, group exhibition, INDEX Exhibition, Design Hub Gallery, RMIT
2023 - Horizons: Near and Far, Light art project proposal by Leslie Eastman, Monash University
2023 - Turning It Inside Out: Imagining Spaces to Support Creative Production in the Melbourne CBD, group exhibition, Project 8 Gallery
2022 - Lichenism, group exhibition, The Design Hub RMIT, S.IDA
2022 - The Podium of Remnant Revival, group exhibition, The Design Hub RMIT, S.IDA
2021 - Urban Assemblage, group exhibition, The Design Hub RMIT, S.IDA
2019 - Collective Memories, group exhibition, Ex-site, The Meat Market, S.IDA
2019 - Interior Cities, performance, RMIT Interior Design 80-years Activation, The Capitol

Awards

2024 - Finalist for Victorian Premiers Design Award (Student Category)
Project “Otherworldly Expedition: The Sentient City”
2024 - High Commendation for Graduate of the Year (GOTYA) - DIA
High commendation in Place category for Higher Education (VIC/TAS)
Top 10 design graduates of the state (VIC/TAS).
2023 - Vice Chancellor Award for Academic Excellence, RMIT University
RMIT higher education award for top two percent graduating student in 2023.
2023 - Frederick Stern Memorial Award, RMIT Interior Design
RMIT Interior Design award given to a fourth-year student for academic excellence in the Research Major Project.
2022 - Ian Howard Memorial Award, RMIT Interior Design
$15,000 travel award to Europe recognises the outstanding the academic excellence of a third-year RMIT Interior Design student, with a focus on design and technology.

Other Experience

2025 - Interior Designer, Fender Katsalidis
2022-2024 - Interior Designer, CARR
2022 - Volunteer, RMIT INDEX Exhibition
2020-2022 - Studio Assistant, BAR Studio
2019 - Volunteer, Super Tight Exhibition, RMIT Design Hub Gallery
2016 - Sessional Teaching Staff, Swinburne University
2015 - Volunteer, Open House Melbourne

Index

I would like to acknowledge the people of Woi Wurrung and Boon Wurrung language groups of the Eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded land I conduct my practice. I respectfully acknowledge their ancestors and Elders past, present and emerging. I also acknowledge the traditional custodians and their ancestors of the land and water across Australia and around the world.