P·P·O·W | Dinh Q. Lê

	Born in Ha-Tien, Viet-Nam
	Education
	1990-92	MFA, Photography and Related Media, The School of Visual Arts, New York
	1984-89	BA, Fine Arts, University of California, Santa Barbara
	One Person Exhibitions
	2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2001	A Quagmire This Time, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA The Penal Colony, P·P·O·W, New York, NY A Tapestry of Memories, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA Dinh Q. Lê, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR Dinh Q. Lê, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Tapestries, P·P·O·W, New York, NY Vietnam: Destination for the New Millennium, The Art of Dinh Q. Lê, Asia Society, NY, September 2005 - December 2006. Photology, Milan, Italy From Vietnam to Hollywood, P·P·O·W, New York, NY The Armory Show, P·P·O·W booth, New York, NY Homecoming, University of California at Santa Barbara Art Museum, CA Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR Qua Ben Nuoc Xua (Collaboration with Sue Hadju), Mai Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam We are Named, The Center for Photography and Woodstock, NY The Texture of Memory, P·P·O·W, New York, NY Persistence of Memory, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
	2000	We are Named: Photo-based Works by Dinh Q. Lê and Michael Rauner, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver CO Persistence of Memory, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR Cambodia: Splendor & Darkness, The Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY Cambodia: Splendor & Darkness, Houston Center for Photography, Houston,TX True Voyage is Return, Montgomery Gallery, Pomona College, Pomona, CA
	1999	Lotusland, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
	1998	Splendour and Darkness, P·P·O·W, New York, NY The Headless Buddha, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Los Angeles, CA; Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR; Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, MA; Sesnon Gallery, Porter College, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA Uncommon Traits III, Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Art (CEPA), Buffalo, NY
	1992	Tyler School of Art Gallery, Elkins Park, PA
	1991	Portraying a White God, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), CA
	1990	Midtown Y Photography Gallery, New York, NY
	Selected Group Exhibitions
	2008 2007	Wonder, Singapore Biennale 2008, Singapore The Tropics, Martin Groupius Bau, Berlin, Germany ART Chicago, P·P·O·W, New York, NY PULSE Art Fair, P·P·O·W, New York, NY Stretching the Truth, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI The Lining of Forgetting, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC Re-Imagining Asia, House of the World Culture, Berlin, Germany. TransPop, Arko Art Center, Seoul, Korea. Travels to Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA. PULSE London Art Fair, Mary Ward House, London, England Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair, Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai, China Red Hot: Asian Art Today From the Chaney Family Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX Art Chicago, P·P·O·W, Chicago, IL The Thermocline of Art- New Asian Waves, ZKM (Center for Art and Media), Karlsruhe, Germany PULSE Art Fair, P·P·O·W, New York, NY Altered, Stitched, and Gathered, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
	2006	PULSE Art Fair, P·P·O·W, Miami, FL Liberation, Saigon Open City, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Another Asia, Noorderlicht Photo Festival, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Gwangju Biennale, Jungoei Park, Gwangju City, Korea Singapore Biennale 2006, Singapore Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland, Australia Infinite Painting- Contemporary Painting and Global Realism, curated by Francesco Bonami and Sarah Cosulich Canarutto, Villa Manin Centre for Contemporary Art, Codroipo, Italy
	2005	Image War: Contesting Images of Political Conflict (Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program Exhibition), The Art Gallery of The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, New York, NY Permanent Vestiges: Drawings from the American-Vietnam War, Drawing Center, November 2005 – February 2006, New York, NY Stages of Memory: The Vietnam War, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL Collection Remixed, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist’s Eye, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
	2004	21, P.P.O.W, New York, NY YOUgenics, The School of Art Institute of Chicago, IL Off the Wall, Bruce Museum, CT
	2003	Art Basel Miami Beach, P·P·O·W, Miami Beach, FL. Red, Yellow and Blue, The Goethe Institute, Hanoi, Vietnam Home/land: Artists, Immigration and Identity, Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA. Commodification of Buddhism, Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY Only Skin Deep, International Center for Photography, New York, NY.
	2002	Sugar and Cream, Triple Candie, New York, NY. Crisis Response, The RISD Museum of Art, Providence, RI. Corpus Christi: Photographic Representations of Christ 1855 - 2002, Paris, France and Jerusalem, Israel
	2001	Diabolical Beauty, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, CA The Red Lotus: A Rare look into the work of Seven Contemporary Vietnamese-American Artists. City Gallery Chastain, Atlanta, Ga We Are Named, Center For Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY Alterations, James Graham & Sons, New York, NY Made in California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Indochina: The Art of War, Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
	2000	Beyond Boundaries: Contemporary Photography in California, University Art Shifting Perceptions: Contemporary LA Visions, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA; Museum,California State University, Long Beach, CA Of the Moment: Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA California Invitational, Ansel Adams Center for Photography, San Francisco, CA You Can’t Go Home Again: The Art of Exile, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA ID/Y2K: Identity at the Millennium, Castle Gallery, New Rochelle, NY Curated by Susan M. Canning The Changing Face of Portraiture, Chapman University, Orange, CA
	1999	Pattern, James Graham & Sons, New York, NY Slow Release: The Rich Mix Exhibition, Bishopsgate, Goodyard, London, England The Emerging Image: Selected Contemporary Photography, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA You Can’t Go Home Again: The Art of Exile, Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, VT. Curated by Amy I. Schlegel
	1998	Bioethics: Thresholds of Corporal Completeness, Side Street Projects, Santa Monica, CA Histories (Re)membered, PaineWeber Art Gallery, New York, NY Fabrications: U.S. Photography, Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, OR; Vrais Reves Gallery, Contemporary Photography, Lyons, France; L’Hotel Du Musee, Arles, France; La Galerie 36, Paris, France; L’Espace Pereisc, Toulon, France; Musee de L’Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland; Musee de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belguim Uncommon Traits III, Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Art (CEPA), Buffalo, NY
	1997	Points of Entry, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY; Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL; High Museum of Art, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA; Eastman International Museum of Photography, Rochester, NY; The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
	1996	Chambers of Enchantment, Center of Contemporary Art for Exploratory and Perceptual Art (CEPA), Buffalo, NY A Labor of Love, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY The Present (H)Our: Artists Utilizing Issues of Identity, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA Pushing Image Paradigms: Conceptual Maneuvers in Recent Photography, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
	1995	Picturing Asia America: Communities, Culture, Difference, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA; Traveled to: Hunt Gallery, Webster University, St. Louis, MO Welcome to Asia America: Visualizing A New World, Cambridge Multicultural Art Center, MA Tracing Cultures, The Friends of Photography, Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco, CA; Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA; Center for Creative Photography, Tuscon, AZ Identity Crisis, Cambridge Multicultural Art Center, MA
	1994	Beyond the Borders, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY Picturing Asia America: Communities, Cultures, Difference, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX Barbie and Beyond, Morphos Gallery, San Francisco, CA Retrospective: Awards in the Visual Arts, Ro Snell Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA; Elverhoy Museum, Solvang, CA; Betteravia Gallery, Santa Maria, CA Picturing Asia America: Communities, Culture, Difference, Houston Center for Photography, TX Asian-Americans in the Arts, Tweed Gallery, New York, NY The DuPont Fellowship, The Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA Rituals: Society Identity/A View From Within, Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Art (CEPA), Buffalo, NY
	1993	Reflections for Peace, Mexican-Arte Museum, Austin, TX (traveled) Three: Works by ‘92-’93 Artists in Residence, Elaine Tin Nyo, Alexander Ku, and Dinh Lê, Asian-American Arts Centre, New York, NY Interior Dialogues, Montage 1993, Rochester, NY We Count, Tweed Gallery, New York, NY
	1992	Here and Now, Now and Then, Longwood Arts Gallery, Bronx Council on the Arts International Textile Exhibition, Kyoto Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan Revealing the Self: Portraits by Twelve Contemporary Artists, Paine Webber Gallery, New York, NY (organized by the Bronx Museum) MFA Thesis Exhibition, Visual Art Gallery, New York, NY
	1991	Combinations: Dinh Lê and Martina Lopez, The Friends of Photography, Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco, CA Articulated Disparities: Renegotiating Masculinity, Gallery 1, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA Director’s Choice: Joanne Hammer, Dinh Lê, Kendall Shaw, and Athena Tacha, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, NY Warp and Woof: Comfort and Dissent, Artists Space, New York, NY
	1990	County of Santa Barbara Art Commision, Individual Artist Award Winners, Channing Peake Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA The Definitive American Contemporary Quilt, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, NY (traveled) Photo Metro #8, Vision Gallery, San Francisco, NY
	Honors and Awards
	2000	Light Work Artist In Residence Program, Syracuse, NY
	1998	Public Project Grant, The Gunk Foundation
	1994-95	National Endowment for the Arts, Fellowship in Photography
	1994	The DuPont Fellowship, The Art Institute of Boston
	1993	Travel Pilot Grant, Arts International and the National Endowment for the Arts
	1992	Artist in Residence, Asian-American Arts Centre, New York, NY Individual Fellowship, Art Matters Inc., New York, NY Individual Photographer’s Fellowship, Aaron Siskind Foundation Matching Grant, Professional Imaging, Eastman Kodak Company Polaroid, 20” x 24” grant, Polaroid Corporation Public Art Project Grant, Creative Time, New York, NY
	1990-92	Full Tuition Scholarship, The School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
	1990	Individual Artist Award, County of Santa Barbara Art Commission Photo Metro Fine Art Award, San Francisco, CA
	1989	Juror’s Award, Santa Barbara Art Association University Art Affiliate Award, University of California, Santa Barbara
	Public Projects
	1998	Damaged Gene, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
	1995	Biography Memorial, organized by the Bronx Council on the Arts, Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, NY Collaboration, (with the Montefiore Family Health Center and local children), organized by the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Montefiore Family Health Center, Bronx, NY
	1991	Race, Gender and Sexuality, poster project organized by Painted Bride Gallery, PA
	1992	Accountability?, Creative Time, citywide poster/postcard project, New York, Los Angeles, and Washington D.C.
	Selected Bibliography
	2007	Tran, Thanh, “Weaving Memories,” Asian Weekly . October 6, 2007. Vinh, Tan. “Vietnamese artworks offer a personal view-and way to view- the war,” The Seattle Times. October 5, 2007. Scheinman, Pamela. “Altered, Stitched, and Gathered,” Fiberarts. April/May, 2007. p. 52-53.
	2006	Fever Variations. Catalogue for Gwangju Biennale 2006. p. 48-49. Fyfe, Joe. “Dinh Q. Lê at the Asia Society and PPOW,” Art in America. May 2006. p.194 Sand, Olivia, “Dinh Q. Lê.” Asian Art News. March 2006. p. 2-5.
	2005	The Human Touch: Selections from the RBC Rauscher Art Collection. RBC Dain Rauscher, 2005 Camhi, Leslie, “After the Fall,” The Village Voice, December 9, 2005 Schwendener, Martha. “Persistent Vestiges: Drawing from the American-Vietnam War.” Time Out New York. Issue 531. December 1-7, 2005 Vietnam: Destination for the New Millennium, The Art of Dinh Q. Lê. Asia Society, 2005 Cotter, Holland, “Two Sides’ Viewpoints On the War in Vietnam,” The New York Times,December 9, 2005
	2004	Searle, Adrian, “Holidays in Hell”, The Guardian, October 11, 2004 Johnson, Ken, “Images of Vietnamese in the Generation Since the War,” The New York Times, October 7, 2004 Aletti, Vince, Review, THE NEW YORKER, October 3, 2005, Critic’s Notebook Chang, Alexandra, “Home vs. Global Society”, amNew York, September 30-October 2, 2005 Wilson, Michael, Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the ‘Tourist’s Eye, Artforum, p69. Aletti, Vince, Review, THE VILLAGE VOICE, April14 – 20, 2004, Voices Choices Review, THE NEW YORKER, April 12, 2004, p. 15
	2003	Dinh Q. Lê: From Vietnam to Hollywood. Marquand Books, 2003 Spalding, David. Weaving History: An Interview with Dinh Q. Lê. Art AsiaPacific. no.38. pg 68-70 (reproductions). Dreams and Conflicts: The Dictatorship of the Viewer, catalogue for the Biennale diVenezia, 2003 Fresh Talk, Daring Gazes: Conversations on Asian American Art, University of California Press, 2003 Art Journal, Spring issue, pg 76-79 (reproductions of “The Texture of Memory” series)
	2002	Evans, Susan E. “We Are Named” Photography Quartlerly (#83), Center for Photography at Woodstock, pp 4-8 (essay, reproduction of Untitled 1998.) Hesse, Gary. “Let Us Build a City and Make for Ourselves a Name” Photography Quarterly (#83), Center for Photography at Woodstock, pp 9 – 12.
	2001	“Light Work Annual 2001”, Contact Sheet Number 112, Light Work , Syracuse NY Catalogue: The Red Lotus, Gallery Chastain, Atlanta GA 2001. “New Exhibits Featured At Center For Photography at Woodstock” Antiques and The Arts Weekly November 2, 2001. “Critical Thinking” Woodstock Times, Dec 6, 2001 McGee, Cecelia. Review, Daily News, June 2, p. 23. Aletti, Vince. Review, Village Voice, June 5. Catalogue, Indochina: The Art of War, Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Pagel, David. “Indochina: The ‘Art of War’ Exhibition Misfires”, Los Angeles Times, April 25, p. F4.
	2000	Bonetti, David. “Trendy Currents at SFMOMA”, San Francisco Examiner, July 7, p. C14. Ohmann, Leah. Review (Shoshana Wayne Gallery), Art in America, February Pagel, David. “Identity-based Work Looks Dated in ‘Shifting Perceptions’”, The Los Angeles Times, May 22
	1999	Ise, Claudine. “Pieces of History” review, The Los Angeles Times, May 28, p. F25. Johnson, Ken. “Pattern at James Graham & Sons, The New York Times, July 17. Miller, Keith. Dinh Q. Lê: Splendor and Darkness”, Art Papers, March/April, p. 52. Smith, Robert F. Review, “You Can’t Go Home Again: Art in Exile” Brattleboro Museum, Art New England, October/November, p. 46. Svetvilas, Chanika. “The Art of War,” Dialogue, Spring/Summer, pp.23-28. Schwabsky, Barry. Review, Artforum, February, pp. 98-99.
	1998	Aletti, Vince. “Voice Choice,” The Village Voice, December 8. Ise, Claudine. “ ‘Headless Buddha’ Weaves History, Myth,” Los Angeles Times, Mar 6. Johnson, Ken. Dinh Q. Lê, The New York Times, December 11. Ehmke, Ronald. “ Neither This Nor That,” Afterimage, July/August. Row, D.K. “Conflicting cultures, selves,” The Oregonian, April 3. Miles, Christopher. “Dinh Q. Lê at the Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies,” Artweek, April. Chattopadhyay, Collette. “Dinh Q. Lê at the Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies,” Asian Art News, March/April.
	1996	Edmunds, Kristy. Pushing Image Paradigms: Conceptual Maneuvers in Recent Photography, catalog, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art. Tucker, Marcia. A Labor of Love, catalog, The New Museum of Contemporary Art.
	1995	Grundberg, Andy, Rebecca Solnit, and Ronald Takaki. Tracing Cultures, catalog, The Friends of Photography, San Francisco.
	1994	McQuaid, Cate. “For Christ’s Sake,” Boston Phoenix, March 3. Silver, Joanne. “East and West Woven into Art,” Boston Herald, February 16.
	1992	Atkins, Robert. “Scene and Heard,” The Village Voice, December 8. Glenn, Jeff. “Integrating Image and Structure,” FiberArts, Vol. 18, No. 5, March. Lipson, Karen. “An Angry Voice from Vietnam,” New York Newsday, December 8. Kano, Kouichi. 3rd International Textile Competition, Kyoto, catalog, Kyoto Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan
	1991	Aletti, Vince. “Playing God,” The Village Voice, April 23. Avery, Virginia and Moira Roth. The Definitive Contemporary American Quilt, catalog, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York. Butler, Connie. Warp and Woof: Comfort and Dissent, catalog, Artists Space, NY. Hoffman, Monika. “Independent Visions,” The Independent, February 14. Kelley, Jeff. “Weavings of Time and Memory,” Artweek, April 18. Wright, David H. “They don’t let reality f-stop them,” The Daily Californian, April 26. Heimerdinger, Debra. “Combinations,” re view, Newsletter of the Friends of Photography, March/April. Medlin, Kayoko. “News from California,” Asahi Camera, Tokyo, Japan, February.
	1990	Aletti, Vince. “Choice Column,” The Village Voice, May 22. Slesin, Suzanne. “Quilts That Warm in New Ways,” New York Times, December 6. Spencer, Russ. “Visions from the Independents,” Santa Barbara Newspress, November.
	Collections The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art The Los Angeles County Museum of Art The Speed Art Museum The Ford Foundation The Norton Family Foundation The Bronx Museum Goldman Sachs & Co.