DINH Q. LÊ (b. 1968)
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
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
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, AZ
Elegies, P·P·O·W, 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
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
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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
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, 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
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
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
COLLECTIONS
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