Dinh Q. Lê

DINH Q. LÊ

b. 1968, Ha-Tien, Vietnam

Lives and works in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

EDUCATION

1992	1990-92 MFA, Photography and Related Media, The School of Visual Arts, New York
1989	1984-89 BA, Fine Arts, University of California, Santa Barbara

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019	Pure Land, Tang Contemporary Art Bangkok, Bankok, Thailand
2018	True Journey is Return, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA Dinh Q. Lê: Earthly Delights, Project Fulfill Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan
2017	Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA The Colony, Museum Boijimans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2016	Dinh Q. Lê: 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, United Kingdom The Colony, ArtAngel, Peckham, United Kingdom The Colony, Site Gallery, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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
2011	Dinh Q Lê: Saigon Diary, University of Buffalo Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, NY Erasure, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney, Australia Dinh Q. Lê, Prince Claus Fund Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands South China Sea Pishkun, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom
2010	Projects 93: The Farmers and the Helicopters, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Dinh Q. Lê, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Parkside, Australia Signs and Signals from the Periphery, ASU Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona Elegies, P·P·O·W, New York, New York
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
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, New York, NY
2004	Photology, Milan, Italy From Vietnam to Hollywood, P·P·O·W, New York, NY. Homecoming, University of California at Santa Barbara Art Museum, Santa Barbara, 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; 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, Buffalo, NY
1992	Tyler School of Art Gallery, Elkins Park, PA
1991	Portraying a White God, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
1990	Midtown Y Photography Gallery, New York, NY

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019	Rothko in Lampedusa, Palazzo Querini, Venice, Italy
2018	Imagined Borders, Gwangju Biennale 2018, Gwangju, South Korea
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 Salon, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Refugees, Casula Powerhouse Arts Center, New South Wales, Australia When Things Fall Apart – Critical Voices on the Radars, Traphoit Museum, Kolding, Denmark Woven, Sturt Haaga gallery, Descanso Gardens, 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 2013 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 55th International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany All that is Solid, City Vision Festival, Mechelen, Belgium
2008	Cut: Makings of Removal, Vincent Price Art Museum, CA Wonder, Singapore Biennale 2008, 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 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, 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, Oregon; 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 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, Buffalo, NY
1993	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

HONORS AND AWARDS

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 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. 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

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	1991-92 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

Asia Society, New York, NY

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

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

2017	Hirsch, Robert. Seizing the Light A Social & Aesthetic History of Photography. New York: Taylor& Francis.
2016	Meurer,Joyce. Art At Work The JPMorgan Chase Art Collection. New York JPMorgan Chase & Co. “Bird dung a metaphor for resource envy and greed at the Void,” Londonderry Sentinel, May 11 Dama, Francesco. “Visually Mining the History of Guano Off the Coast of Peru,” Hyperallergic, March 28. “Dinh Q. Lê: The Colony at Site Gallery,” Anti-Utopias, September 3. Helmke, Juliet. “Christoph Wiesner on Paris Photo 2016,” Artinfo, November 8. Mai, C.A. Xuan. “The Colony: Vietnamese artist Dinh Q. Lê at Artangel, London,” Art Radar, September 21. “Photography under all its avatars in Paris photo,” Le Point Culture, November 10. Searle, Adrian. “Dinh Q. Lê: The Colony Review – a messy meditation on the Pacific guano trade,” The Guardian, February 2. Schultz, Abby. “Welcome to the Brave New World of Media Art,” Barron’s, June 30. Young, Graham. “Ikon Gallery launches exhibition about bird poop,” Birmingham Mail, January 28. “The Colony by Dinh Q. Lê in London,” Fundació Han Nefkens, September 23. Trujillo, Natalie. “Paris Photo: the countdown begins,” Le Monde de la Photo, November 10. “Why photography is buoyant – and the artists on the rise,” Christie’s, November 10.
2014	Levia, Kim. “Reviews: New York – Dinh Q. Le”, ArtNEWS, Summer 2014. Adams, Rachel,”Review: Dinh Q. Le at Rice University Art Gallery”, Modern Painters, September 2014. Rao, Mallika, “The Life Of The World Trade Center, In Four Powerful Images”, The Huffington Post, June 3, 2014 Young, Allison, “Review: Dinh Q. Le”, Artforum, May 2014. Heinrich, Will, “’Dinh Q. Le: Warp, Woof, Zero, One’ at P.P.O.W”, NY Observer Gallerist, May 7, 2014. Glentzer, Molly, “Narrative of Vietnam finds voice in photos”, Houston Chronicle, April 18, 2014.
2013	Smith, Roberta, “Global Extravaganza, but on a Human Scale: The Carnegie International Keeps Its Survey Small”, The New York Times, October 10, 2013. Butt, Zoe, “Dinh Q. Lê in conversation with Zoe Butt”, Guggenheim Blog, January 22, 2013. Luong, Ruben, “Where I Work: Dinh Q. Le”, Art Asia Pacific
2012	Tucker, Anne Wilkes, Will Michels, Natalie Zelt. WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Yale University Press, New Haven: 2012. (reproduction p. 546). The Book of Books, Catalog 1-3, Hatje Cantz Ollman, Leah. Critic’s Choice, “Review: Dinh Q. Le’s woven imagery connects cultures”. Los Angeles Times: Art and Culture. 21 June, 2012. Vary, Renee, Burden of Proof: National Identity and the Legacy of War, Oglethorpe University Museum of Art, August 22, 2012. 10 Chancery Lane Gallery Exhibition Announcement, “Erasure”, 30 July 2012.
2011	Harvey, Nicola, “Dinh Q. Lê”, Frieze Magazine, September 9. Larking, Matthew. “Conceptualizing old Ideas into ‘New’ Art”, The Japan Times, April 1, 2011. Landi, Ann. “History in the Making” ARTnews, April, 2011.
2010	Cotter, Holland. “Vietnamese Voices Against a Whir of War,” The New York Times, August 12, 2010, Weekend Arts, pg 21, 24. Allen, Emma. “Helicopters from Vietnam: A Q&A with Dinh Q. Lê,” Artinfo.com, June 29. LaBelle, Charles. “4th Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale,” Artforum, January 2010. Truong, Hong-An, “Dinh Q. Lê at P.P.O.W,” IDIOM, February 16,2010. “Goings On About Town: Projects 93: Dinh Q. Lê,” The New Yorker, August 2, 2010. Frieze, Issue. 132. June, July, August 2010. p. 40. Dougherty, Linda J. “Dinh Q. Lê,” North Caroline Muesum of Art” Handbook of the Collections. 2010.p. 592-593. Cotter, Holland. “Vietnamese Voices Against a Whir of War,” The New York Times. August 13, 2010. p. C21 continues to C24. Bovee, Katherine. “Dinh Q. Lê,” Art Papers. p. 61. Transparency. April 2010. p. 8. Artforum. XLVIII, No.10. Summer 2010. Advert.
2009	Tinari, Philip, "2008 Gwangju Biennale, Singapore Biennale 2008, 3rd Yokohama Triennale,"Artforum, January 2009.
2008	Knight, Christopher, “Dinh Q. Lê at Shoshana Wayne Gallery,” LA Times, October 3, 2003. The Lining of Forgetting: Internal & External Memory in Art. Catalogue for Weatherspoon Art Museum. February 2008. pg. 40 – 43. Cheng, Scarlet, “Pacific Overtures,” Art Ltd. Sept/Oct. Dinh Q. Lê” The New Yorker, Galleries – Chelsea Review, May 26. Wolff, Rachel, “Dinh. Q. Lê: PPOW,“ ARTnews. Summer 2008.
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, p 69
2004	Aletti, Vince, Review, The Village Voice, April 14 – 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. 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. 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’”, 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, p. 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	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	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.