Dinh Q. Lê

1990-92

MFA, Photography and Related Media, The School of Visual Arts, New York

1984-89

BA, Fine Arts, University of California, Santa Barbara

2017

Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

The Colony, Museum Boijimans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands

2016

Beautiful Terror, Viking Union Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA

Memory for Tomorrow, Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan

The Colony, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England

2015

Memory for Tomorrow, Mori Museum, Tokyo, Japan

2014

Crossing the Farther Shore, Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, TX

Warp, Woof, Zero, One, P·P·O·W, New York, NY

2012

Erasure, Chancery Lane Art Gallery Projects, Hong Kong China

Remnants Ruins, Civilization, and Empire, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2017

After Darkness Comes the Light: Art in the Wake Of History, Asia Society Museum, New York, NY

The Picture Will Still Exist, Dia Projects, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Mekong - New Mythologies, The Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong, China

Sunshower: contemporary Art from Southeast Asia 1980s to Now, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

Asian Diva: The Muse and the Monster, SeMA, Bulk-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea

The Family Camera, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Rosa's Wound, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan

Imaginary Asia, Nam June Paik Art Center, Seoul, South Korea

 

2016

Crafting the Future, curated by Daniel Peabody, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR

Refugees, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, New South Wales, Australia

Woven, curated by John David O’Brien, Sturt Haaga Gallery, La Canada Flintridge, CA

2015

Constructed Histories, David B. Smith Gallery, Denver, CO

Revolution & Resistance: Responses in Contemporary Print, Technology and Community Activism, Gund Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH

CHANNELS: Media, Culture, and Representation, Articulture Biennial Exhibition, The Gallery at Delaware Count Community College, Media, PA

2014

Transformational Imagemaking: Handmade Photography Since 1960, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY

Post Traditions/New Voices in Asian Art, Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY

Afterimage: Contemporary Photography in Southeast Asia, The Singapore Art Museum, Singapore

The Sensory War, Whitworth Art Gallery at the University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

2013

War is for the Living, The Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Art Gallery, New York, NY

Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA

2012

Power of Doubt, Times Museum, Guangzhou Guangdong, China

Six Lines of Flight: Shifting Geographies in Contemporary Art, SF MOMA San Francisco CA

WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Photographs of Armed Conflict and its Aftermath, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles, CA; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

SVA Alumni Show, New York, NY

dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany

2011

6th Curitiba Biennial, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

Air Hole, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan

Art in the Auditorium: Elodie Pong, Ergin Cavusoglu, Dinh Q Le, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK

The Power of Doubt, Museo Colecciones ICO, Madrid, Spain

2010

Busan Biennale: Living in Evolution, Busan, Korea

Nanjing Biennale, Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum, Nanjing City, China

Syntax & Diction: Transforming The Everyday, San Art, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

The Tropics: Views from The Middle of The Globe, Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok, Thailand

Art Scene Vietnam, ifa Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany

Bodies on the Line Colloquium, New York University, New York, NY

The Creative Time Summit: Revolutions in Public, Practice 2, Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY

AAI’s Art (Inter)Actions Series, Cuchifritos Gallery, New York, NY

Asian and Asian-American Art from the Permanent Collection, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY

Ruptures and Continuities: Photography Made After 1960 from the MFAH Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

2009

Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Fukuoka, Japan

World Selection of Contemporary Art, Biennale Cuveé 09, Linz, Austria

NAM BANG!, Casula Powerhouse, Casula, Australia

All that is Solid, City Vision Festival, Mechelen, Belgium

2008

Cut: Makings of Removal, Vincent Price Art Museum, CA

Wonder, Singapore Biennale, Singapore

The Tropics, Martin Groupius Bau, Berlin, Germany

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

2007

TransPop, Arko Art Center, Seoul, Korea; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

Red Hot: Asian Art Today From the Chaney Family Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

The Thermocline of Art- New Asian Waves, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany

2006

Altered, Stitched, and Gathered, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY

Liberation, Saigon Open City, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Another Asia, Noorderlicht Photo Festival, Leeuwarden, Netherlands

Gwangju Biennale, Jungoei Park, Gwangju City, Korea

Singapore Biennale, 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, 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

Red, Yellow and Blue, The Goethe Institute, Hanoi, Vietnam

Dreams and Conflicts: The Dictatorship of the Viewer, Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy

Home/land: Artists, Immigration and Identity, Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA

Commodification of Buddhism, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY

Only Skin Deep, International Center for Photography, New York, NY

2002

Sugar and Cream, Triple Canopy, New York, NY

Crisis Response, 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, California University Art Museum, Long Beach, CA

Shifting Perceptions: Contemporary LA Visions, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, 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, curated by Susan M. Canning Castle Gallery, New Rochelle, NY

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, curated by Amy I. Schlegel, Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, VT

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, Buffalo, NY

1997

Points of Entry, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY; Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; 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; Hunt Gallery, Webster University, St. Louis, MI

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

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, Buffalo, NY

1993

Reflections for Peace, Mexican-Arte Museum, Austin, TX

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, Bronx, NY

International Textile Exhibition, Kyoto Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan

Revealing the Self: Portraits by Twelve Contemporary Artists, Paine Webber Gallery, New York, NY

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 Commission, Individual Artist Award Winners, Channing Peake Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA

The Definitive American Contemporary Quilt, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, NY

Photo Metro #8, Vision Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2010

Visual Art Laureate, Prince Claus Fund, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2009

International Project Grant, Art Matters, New York, NY

Artist in Residence, Tokyo Wonder Site Aoyama, Tokyo

2000

Light Work Artist In Residence Program, Syracuse, NY

1998

Public Project Grant, The Gunk Foundation

1994

National Endowment for the Arts, Fellowship in Photography

The Museum of Modern Art

The Israel Museum

The Hammer Museum

The Fukuoka Asian Art Museum

Portland Art Museum

Currier Museum of 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

Asia Society

Texas Ackland Art Museum

Queensland Gallery of Modern Art

UC Santa Barbara Art Museum

Goldman Sachs & Co.

JP Morgan Chase

General Mills

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University

Carnegie Museum of Art

Private Collections