* Tran has won many awards and prizes for his paintings and his sculpture. Since then, he has held over 40 solo exhibitions and 50 group exhibitions. Tran has exhibited extensively since the late 1980s and held his first solo exhibition at the Fairfield School of Art in 1991. ** He lives and works in Sydney and the Southern Highlands as an artist and sculptor. Tran studied Fine Arts at Liverpool TAFE and the University of Western Sydney, undertaking a Graduate Certificate, Associate Graduate Diploma in Fine Arts and a Bachelor of Visual Arts before becoming a full-time artist. Tran survived the ordeals of his journey and immigrated to Australia in 1978.
On the second leg of their journey from Vietnam to Thailand they were attacked by pirates who took any meagre possessions the refugees had. It was packed with people desperate to seek asylum away from Cambodia, but many of the people on the top deck were swept overboard by high waves on their journey to Vietnam. Tran recalls boarding a crowded boat towards the end of 1976 that was ordinarily used as a fishing vessel. The horrors of Pol Pot’s Cambodian genocide forced his family to flee and seek refuge overseas. Sokquon Tran was born in Kampot, Cambodia in 1968 or 1969.
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