Born in Vietnam in 1963 to a family of wealth and privilege, Tuan learned volumes about balance after the fall of Saigon in 1975. Wealth turned to poverty, privilege to oppression and happiness to sadness; Tuan began to realize that one cannot exist without the other.  Thirsting for freedom, Tuan utilized his skills as a sculptor to expedite his release from a concentration camp. Tuan eventually made his way to the United States in 1989, where he embarked on a career as a sculptor with renewed energy and passion.