BIOGRAPHY
Born in Ha-Tien, Vietnam
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
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010
—June: Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2009
—Signs and Signals from the Periphery, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
—A Tapestry of Memories: The Art of Dinh Q. Lê, Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, MA
—All that is Solid, City Vision Festival, Mechelen, Belgium
—Signs and Signals from the Periphery,, and Installation by Dinh Q Le, ASU Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona
2008
—A Quagmire This Time, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
—The Penal Colony, P•P•O•W, New York, NY
2007
—A Tapestry of Memories, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA
—Dinh Q. Lê, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
2006
—Dinh Q. Lê, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
—Tapestries, P•P•O•W, New York, NY
2005
—Vietnam: Destination for the New Millennium, The Art of Dinh Q. Lê, Asia Society, NY, September 2005 - December 2006.
2004
—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
2003
—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
2001
—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, Relocating Asia, Part 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
2009
— Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Fukuoka, Japan
—All that is Solid, City Vision Festival, Mechelen, Belgium
—OK Biennale Cuvee '09-World Art Selection of Contemporary Art, Austria.
—NAM BANG!, Casula Powerhouse, Casula, Australia
2008
—Wonder, Singapore Biennale 2008, Singapore
—The Tropics, Martin Groupius Bau, Berlin, Germany
— ART Chicago, P•P•O•W, Chicago, IL
—PULSE Art Fair, P•P•O•W, Miami, FL
—Re- Imagining Asia, House of the World Culture, Berlin, Germany
—Stretching the Truth, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
—The Lining of Forgetting, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
—Cut: Makings of Removal, Vincent Price Art Museum, CA
2007
—TransPop, Arko Art Center, Seoul, Korea.
Travels to Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco in 2008
—PULSE Miami Art Fair, Soho Studios, Miami, FL.
—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 Contemporary Art Fair, P•P•O•W, Chicago, IL
—The Thermocline of Art- New Asian Waves, ZKM (Center for Art and Media), Karlsruhe, Germany
—PULSE Contemporary Art Fair, P•P•O•W, New York, NY
2006
—Altered, Stitched, and Gathered, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
—PULSE Art Fair, P•P•O•W, New York, NY
—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
—Dreams and Conflicts: The Dictatorship of the Viewer, Biennale di Venezia, Italian
—Pavilion, June 11th to November 3, Venice, Italy.
—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 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 Du Pont 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
1992
—Accountability?, Creative Time, citywide poster/postcard project, New York, Los Angeles, and Washington D.C.
1991
—Race, Gender and Sexuality, poster project organized by Painted Bride Gallery, PA
COLLECTIONS
The Museum of Modern Art
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
Ackland Art Museum
Queensland Gallery of Modern Art
Goldman Sachs & Co.
JP Morgan Chase
General Mills
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2009
—Tinari, Philip, "2008 Gwangju Biennale, Singapore Biennale 2008, 3rd Yokohama Triennale,"Artforum International, January
2008
—The Lining of Forgetting: Internal & External Memory in Art. Catalogue for Weatherspoon Art Museum. February 2008. pg. 40 - 43.
—Wolff, Rachel, "Dinh. Q. Lê: PPOW, " ARTnews. Summer 2008.
—Knight, Christopher, "Dinh Q. Lê at Shoshana Wayne Gallery," LA Times, October 3 2003
—Cheng, Scarlet, "Pacific Overtures," Art Ltd. Sept/Oct
"Dinh Q Le" The New Yorker, Galleries – Chelsea Review, May 26
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.
—Dougherty, Linda. "New Contemporary Acquisition Explores Conflicting Memories of Vietnam War," Preview. January/February 2007. p.8-9
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.
—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, 2005
—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.
2004
—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. Le," Art AsiaPacific. no. 38. p. 68-70 (reproductions).
—Dreams and Conflicts: The Dictatorship of the Viewer, catalogue for the Biennale di Venezia, 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, p 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, p. 9 - 12.
2001
—"The 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.
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1999
—Ise, Claudine. "Pieces of History" review, The Los Angeles Times, May 28, p. F25.
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—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.
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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.
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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.
Born in Ha-Tien, Vietnam
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
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010
—June: Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2009
—Signs and Signals from the Periphery, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
—A Tapestry of Memories: The Art of Dinh Q. Lê, Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, MA
—All that is Solid, City Vision Festival, Mechelen, Belgium
—Signs and Signals from the Periphery,, and Installation by Dinh Q Le, ASU Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona
2008
—A Quagmire This Time, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
—The Penal Colony, P•P•O•W, New York, NY
2007
—A Tapestry of Memories, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA
—Dinh Q. Lê, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
2006
—Dinh Q. Lê, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
—Tapestries, P•P•O•W, New York, NY
2005
—Vietnam: Destination for the New Millennium, The Art of Dinh Q. Lê, Asia Society, NY, September 2005 - December 2006.
2004
—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
2003
—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
2001
—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, Relocating Asia, Part 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
2009
— Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Fukuoka, Japan
—All that is Solid, City Vision Festival, Mechelen, Belgium
—OK Biennale Cuvee '09-World Art Selection of Contemporary Art, Austria.
—NAM BANG!, Casula Powerhouse, Casula, Australia
2008
—Wonder, Singapore Biennale 2008, Singapore
—The Tropics, Martin Groupius Bau, Berlin, Germany
— ART Chicago, P•P•O•W, Chicago, IL
—PULSE Art Fair, P•P•O•W, Miami, FL
—Re- Imagining Asia, House of the World Culture, Berlin, Germany
—Stretching the Truth, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
—The Lining of Forgetting, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
—Cut: Makings of Removal, Vincent Price Art Museum, CA
2007
—TransPop, Arko Art Center, Seoul, Korea.
Travels to Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco in 2008
—PULSE Miami Art Fair, Soho Studios, Miami, FL.
—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 Contemporary Art Fair, P•P•O•W, Chicago, IL
—The Thermocline of Art- New Asian Waves, ZKM (Center for Art and Media), Karlsruhe, Germany
—PULSE Contemporary Art Fair, P•P•O•W, New York, NY
2006
—Altered, Stitched, and Gathered, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
—PULSE Art Fair, P•P•O•W, New York, NY
—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
—Dreams and Conflicts: The Dictatorship of the Viewer, Biennale di Venezia, Italian
—Pavilion, June 11th to November 3, Venice, Italy.
—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 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 Du Pont 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
1992
—Accountability?, Creative Time, citywide poster/postcard project, New York, Los Angeles, and Washington D.C.
1991
—Race, Gender and Sexuality, poster project organized by Painted Bride Gallery, PA
COLLECTIONS
The Museum of Modern Art
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
Ackland Art Museum
Queensland Gallery of Modern Art
Goldman Sachs & Co.
JP Morgan Chase
General Mills
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