| 1989 |
Buianovxcaia, “Trào lưu tiên phong Việt Namtrên bờ sông Vonga” (“Vietnam’s pioneering movement on the banks of the Volga River”), Liên Xô, (Soviet Union), # 12, 1989, p. 32-35 and back cover. |
| Buianopxcaia, "Gặp gỡ với cái đẹp" (“Encounter with beauty”), Phụ nữ Liên Xô, (Soviet Woman), # 1, 1989, p. 10-12. |
| 1996 |
Ian Howard, "Vietnamese Artists: Making Do, Digging In, Breaking Out", catalogue of the 2nd Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 1996, p. 49-50., Sàn Art, HCMC, Vietnam |
| Natalia Kraevskaia "Vu Dan Tan", catalogue of the 2nd Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 1996, p. 106. |
| 1997 |
Ian Howard, “A Blossoming Tradition”, Asian Art News, vol. 7, # 1, 1997, p. 44-45. |
| Ian Howard, “A Road Ahead Is Behind You”, Asian Art News, vol. 7, # 2, 1997, p. 58-59. |
| Ian Were, “Vu Dan Tan’s front window view”, Object, # 2, 1997, p. 38-40. |
| Birgit Hussfeld, “Monsters, devils, insects and angels. The bowerbird art of Vu Dan Tan”, Art Asia Pacific, # 14, 1997, p. 50-55. |
| Vân Hạc, “Vũ Dân Tân. Chuyện một người đi để hiểu hội họa” (“A person who tries to understand fine art”), Thể thao & Văn hóa, # 63 (843), 5.8.1997, p. 16. |
| Thu Phương, "The man who warms up the souls of masks", Vietnam News, February 1, 1998, p. 9. |
| 1999 |
Vu Dan Tan. Catalogue of the exhibition “Gap Vietnam”, Haus der kulturen der welt (House of the World Cultures), Berlin, 1999, p. 33-35. |
| Đoàn Lân, “Có một họa sĩ như thế” (“There is an artist like this”), Thể thao Văn hóa, # 8 (178), 25.1.1999, p. 10. |
| T.T. Nhu, “Castoffs Take Wings”, San Jose Mercury News, December 5, 1999, section G, p.1 and p. 3. |
| 2000 |
Bradford Edwards, "Riencarnation at Pacific Bridge", Asian Art News, vol.10, # 2, 2000, p. 95. |
| Michael Mathes, "The sorcerer of scrap", Sunday Morning Post (Bangkok), August 13, 2000. |
| 2001 |
Birgit Hussfeld, "Mode 2000", catalogue of the 8th Triennale Kleinplastik Fellbach 2001, Vor- Sicht Ruck-Sicht, 2001, p. 176-179. |
| Iola Lenzi, "Seductive Amazons and Liberated Icons", catalogue of the exhibition of Vu Dan Tan and Nguyen Quand Huy, Atelier Frank & Lee, Singapore, 2001, p. 1-13. |
| Osaka Triennial 2001. 10th International Contemporary Art Competition, catalogue, Osaka, 2001, p. 86. |
| 2002 |
Natalia Kraevskaia, “Other Banks”, catalogue of the exhibition “Other Banks”, Astrakhan State Fine Arts Gallery, Russia, 2002. |
| Xuân Bình, “Trò tinh nghịch của Dân Tân” (“Naughty character of Vu Dan Tan”. Ý tưởng Sản phẩm, tháng 1, 2002, p. 62-63. |
| 2006 |
“Vu Dan Tan. In contrast to mainstream”, Metropolis (Japanese English magazine), May 26, 2006, p. 18-19. |
| Katherine Pham Do, “Vu Dan Tan – Tanorigami: Suitcases of a Pilgrim”, The Japan Times, June 1, 2006. |
| 2007 |
Codet, “Vũ Dân Tân người tựa cửa ngắm mưa rơi” (“The man who is watching the rain fall”), Thể thao Văn hóa & Đàn Ông, # 23 – 9. 2007, p. 102-103. |
| 2008 |
Post Doi Moi. Vietnamese Art after 1990, Catalogue of the exhibition, Singapore Art Museum, 2008, p. 160-161. |
| 2009 |
Iola Lenzi, “Heroes and promise: intersecting currents in new art from Vietnam”, catalogue of the exhibition “Intersection / Vietnam: New Works from North and South”, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, 2009, p. 1- 7, p. 16-17. |
| Ian Were, “Vale. Vu Dan Tan (1946-2009)”, Art Lines, Queensland Art Gallery, Australia, 2009, #4, p. 37. |
| Phong Vân, “Vũ Dân Tân: Và cái đẹp của rỗi thế giới” (“Vu Dan Tan and the beauty of the world”), Thể thao & Văn hóa, # 42 (116), 16-22/10/ 2009, p. 44-45. |
| Vũ Hoài Anh, “Họa sĩ Vũ Dân Tân” (“The artist Vu Dan Tan”), Nghiên cứu mỹ thuật, 12.2009, # 4 (32), p. 44-47. |
| Lương Xuân Đoàn, “Nhớ họa sĩ Vũ Dân Tân” (“Remember the artist Vu Dan Tan”), Thể thao & Văn hóa, # 290 (2808), 17.10.2009, p. 19. |
| Dương Tường, “Tân ơi!” (“Tan!”), Thể thao & Văn hóa, # 290 (2808), 17.10.2009, p.19. |
| 2010 |
Bradford Edwards, “The quite master: Vu Dan Tan (1946-2009), World Sculpture News, vol. 16, # 2, 2010, p. 76. |
| Natalia Kraevskaia, “A Journey into the World of Lithography”, catalogue of the exhibition “Vu Dan Tan. Lithography”, 2010, Hanoi. |
| Iola Lenzi, “The Art of the Court Jester. Vu Dan Tan’s Money Séries”, catalogue “Vu Dan Tan. Money for all times”, Hanoi, 2010, p. 10-12. |
| Kraevskaia Natalia, “Money for all times”, catalogue “Vu Dan Tan. Money for all times”, Hanoi, 2010, p. 17-19. |
| Iola Lenzi, “Urbane Subversion: Empowerment, Defiance and Sexuality in the Art of Vu Dan Tan”, in “12 Contemporary artists of Vietnam”, Hanoi, Thế Giới Publishers, 2010, p. 3-33. |
| 2012 |
Khairuddin Hori, “Vu Dan Tan”, Tomorrow, Today. Contemporary Art from the Singapore Art Museum (2009 – 2011), Singapore Art Museum, 2012, p. 364-367. |
| Iola Lenzi, “Venus in Vietnam: Women and the Erotic in the Art of Vu Dan Tan and Nguyen Nghia Cuong”, catalogue of the exhibition «Venus in Vietnam », Goethe Institut, Hanoi, 2012, p. 22-31. |
| 2014 |
Iola Lenzi, “Conceptual Strategies in Southeast Asian Art: a local narrative”, catalogue of the exhibition “Concept, Context, Contestation: Art and the Collective in Southeast Asia”, BACC, Bangkok, 2014, p. 10-25. |
| Iola Lenzi, “The Roving Eye. Southeast Asian Arts: Plural Views on Self, Culture and Nation”, catalogue of the exhibition “The Roving Eye. Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia”, ARTER, Istanbul, Turkey, 2014, p. 30-47. |
| A.Y. Sokolovsky, “Contemporary Vietnamese Artist - avant-gardist Vu Dan Tan”, Vietnamese studies, issue 4 “Vietnam in the World’s community”, Moscow, 2014, p. 346-354. (in Russian). |
| 2015 |
Hans M. De Wolf, “Vu Dan Tan. Venus in Vietnam”, catalogue of the exhibition « Forme e Anti Forme », Milan, Expo Milano, 2015, p. 127-129. |
| Natalia Kraevskaia, “Vũ Dân Tân và những cuốn sách của nghệ sỹ” (“Vu Dan Tan and the artists’ books”), Tia Sáng, Hanoi, #23 – 05.12.2015, p. 52-53. |
| Between Declarations and Dreams: Art of Southeast Asia since the 19th century, catalogue of the exhibition, National Gallery Singapore, 2015, p. 297. |
| 2016 |
Đào Mai Trang, “Vũ Dân Tân không bao giờ giới hạn bản thân mình” (“Vu Dan Tan never limits himself”), Mỹ thuật, Nhiếp ảnh, 2016, # 6 (48), p. 30-35. |
| Trần Hậu Yên Thế, “50 câu hỏi mỹ học đương đại của Marc Jimenez và cách trả lời của Vũ Dân Tân” (“50 contemporary question about studies of Mark Jimanez and a way of answering by Vu Dan Tan”), Mỹ thuật, Nhiếp ảnh, 2016, # 12 (54), p. 46-47. |
| Iola Lenzi, “Music as Freedom. The Place of Sound in the Visual Practice of Vu Dan Tan”, catalogue of the exhibition “Vu Dan Tan and Music”, Goethe Institut, Hanoi, 2016, p. 20-29. |
| Jun Zubillaga – Paw, “Between Classical and Falk. Vu Dan Tan, the Composer”, catalogue of the exhibition “Vu Dan Tan and Music”, Goethe Institut, Hanoi, 2016, p. 34-37. |
| 2020 |
Iola Lenzi, “Stealing Public Space and Southeast Asian Art’s Contemporary Turn”, catalogue of the exhibition “Stealing Public Space”, Singapore, The Substation, 2020, p. 3-17. |
| 2022 |
Iola Lenzi, Early Contemporary Art in Vietnam: Đổi Mới shift as spur of innovation in globalizing 1990s-Hanoi, The Russian Journal of Vietnamese Studies, 2022, vol. 6, # 1, p. 73-85. |
| Iola Lenzi, “Finding Common Threads”, Art Republic Vietnam, 2022, # 4, p. 146-153. |
| Natalia Kraevskaia, “Beyond the boundaries of geography, canons and convention: The art of Emeric Feješ and Vũ Dân Tân”, Catalogue of the exhibition of Emeric Feješ and Vũ Dân Tân, Serbia, Novi Sad, 2022, p. 3-10. |
| 2024 |
Pamela N. Corey, "The (Calli)graphic Regimes of Contemporary Vietnamese Art," ARTMargins 13, no. 3 (2024): 13–35. |
| 2025 |
Iola Lenzi. “Beauty Will Save the World. Eight Artists from Southeast Asia”. Catalogue of the exhibition “Beauty Will Save the World”, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong, 2025, p.4-11, p. 64-73. |
