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Việt Lê (born 1976)[1][2] is a Vietnamese-born American artist, writer, and curator. Lê is an associate professor[3] at the California College of the Arts.
Việt Lê | |
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Born | 1976 (age 47–48) Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam |
Other names | Viet H. Le |
Alma mater | University of Southern California, University of California, Irvine, California State University, Fullerton |
Occupation(s) | artist, writer, curator, educator |
Years active | 1998–present |
Website | vietle |
He has been published in positions: Asia critique;[4] Crab Orchard Review;[5] American Quarterly;[6] Amerasia Journal;[7] Art Journal; and the anthologies Writing from the Perfume River;[8] Strange Cargo;[9] The Spaces Between Us;[10] Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Art;[11] among others.
Biography
editViệt Lê was born in 1976 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.[citation needed] Lê received his M.F.A. degree from the University of California, Irvine.[when?][citation needed] He received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Southern California.[when?][citation needed] In Taipei, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Academia Sinica.[when?][citation needed]
Exhibitions
editSolo art exhibitions include lovebang! (2016)[12] at Kellogg University Art Gallery, Los Angeles; vestige (2015) at H Gallery, Bangkok;[13][14] tan nÁRT cõi lòng | heARTbreak![15] (Nhà Sàn Collective Hà Nội). Lê has presented his work at The Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada; UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA; DoBaeBacSa Gallery, Seoul, Korea; Japan Foundation, Việt Nam; 1a Space, Hong Kong; Bangkok Art & Cultural Center (BACC),[16] Thailand; Civitella Ranieri, Italy; Shanghai Biennale, China; Rio Gay Film Festival,[17] Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; among other venues.
Solo exhibitions
edit2016
- lovebang!, February 27 - April 23, 2016,[12] W. Keith and Janet Kellog University Art Gallery at California State University, Pomona,[18] Pomona (two person solo exhibit with Laura Kina)
- tan nÁRT cõi lòng | heARTbreak! December 26, 2015 - January 3, 3016
Nhà Sàn Collective[15] Hà Nội, Việt Nam
2015
- vestige, H Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand[14] December 14, 2013 - January 14, 2015
2012
- still December 10, 2011 - February 4, 2012
California College of the Arts, San Francisco
2010
2009
- succeed or quit June 8 - July 28, 2009
site-specific installation, Umbria, Italy
2007
- what's love got to do with it? October 2007
two-person solo exhibition with Julie Thi Underhill
Creighton University Art Gallery,[21] Omaha, NE
2004
- represent[22] June 21 - July 3, 2004
site-specific installation, The Banff Centre, Canada - pictures of you April 9–17, 2004
Hudson D. Walker Gallery,[23] Provincetown, MA - It's a Fine Day March 5, 2004
solo performance, Shoshin Performance Space, NYU
2002
- sweet bitter[24] August 11, 2002
Solo performances by Việt Lê, Leo Garcia, LeVan D. Hawkins, Alex Penn
Curated by LeVan D. Hawkins, Highways Performance Space, SantaMonica, CA
2001
- the indifference of every day September - December 2001
multimedia installation of digital images and text in a public space Cyber A, University of California, Irvine
2000
- hom(m)e[25] July 2000 - January 2001
site-specific installation Pillsbury Madison & Winthrop LLP, corporate office, Costa Mesa, California
1998
- Masquerade: A Solo Exhibition January 27 - February 14, 1998
Sight and Sound Gallery, California State University, Fullerton, California
Experimental Films
editlovebang! trilogy 2012-17
- lovebang! 2016, directed by Việt Lê. Collaborators: Chean Long, Khvay Samnang,[26] GiGi.
- eclipse, 2016, directed by Việt Lê with Jamie Maxtone-Graham. Collaborators: Nguyen Phuong Linh, Tuan Mami, Anh Phong Le. Producer: Nguyễn Quốc Thành.
- heARTbreak! 2016–17. Producer: Henry Tan.
- Select Film Festival Official Selection: Future Shorts Film Fest '12, Sài Gòn, Việt Nam; CAAMFest '12, San Francisco; Frameline LGBT Film Festival '13; San Francisco Global Vietnamese Film Fest '13; MIX New York Experimental Queer Film Fest '13, New York; Southwest Gay & Lesbian Film Fest, Alburquerbue New Mexico '13; Queer Arts Festival '13, Hà Noi, Việt Nam; Rio Gay Film Fest 2014, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Queer Rebels Exploding Lineage Film Fest, SF '14
- Select Gallery Exhibitions/ Presentations: Bangkok Art & Culture Centre | The Art Centre, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand; Department of Avant Garde Cliches, Manila, Philippines; Meta House, Phnom Penh, Cambodia; Aljira A Center for the Arts; Boston, USA; Los Angeles, USA; Lanchester Gallery, Coventry, UK; Taipei, Taiwan; College Art Association, New York; USA Sonic Tonics: Spiritual Asias (working title) 2017- (feature film trilogy in-process)[27]
Group exhibitions
edit2017
- Waiting With performance. Invited collaborative performance with Faith Wilding.
Northern California Women's Art Caucus,[28] San Francisco, USA. January 17, 2017
2016
- APAture Festival Featured Artist: October 9, 2016
Việt Lê | Film Showcase, Koret Auditorium, SF Main Public Library,[29] San Francisco, CA, USA - Imaginary Selves February 2-March 10, 2016
Guest curated by Jennifer Vanderpool, Ph.D.
Harris Gallery,[30] University of La Verne, 1950 Third Street, La Verne, California 91750
2015
- Queer Rebels Fest![31] (eclipse screened) May 29–30, 2015
African American Art & Culture Complex, San Francisco
2014
- forever queer![32] Dec. 20, 2013-January 5, 2014
Nha San Collective, Hả Nội, Việt Nam, curated by Nguyễn Quốc Thành
2013
- "Queer Rebels"[33] Program (love bang! screened) November 2013
Mix New York Queer Experimental Film Festival
curated by Celeste Chan and Kali Boyce - Southwest Gay & Lesbian Film Festival[34] October 11–20, 2013
(love bang! screened) Albuquerque, New Mexico - "Transtastic" film shorts program[35] (love bang! screened) June 24, 2013
Frameline LGBT Film Festival. San Francisco, CA - Sex. Money. Race. Gender: The Ladydrawers (of Ill.)[36] June 27-July 27, 2013
Exhibition & Workshop Series
A+D Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
curated by Anne Elizabeth Moore - boi band poster workshop[37] with Việt Lê & Morgan Claire, Residency Workshop Series July 25, 2013
- Asian American Festival Favorites[38] (love bang! screened) April 30, 2013
OVEE TV, national platform
curated by Kar Yin Tham, Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) featuring Lobster Shmobster (Dave Quion & Kyle Ross /USA/2 minutes/2004); The Others (Aram Siu Wai Collier/USA/9 minutes/2009); love bang! (Việt Lê/Cambodia-USA/6 minutes/2012);[39] Lady Razorbacks (Laura Green/USA/4 minutes/2011); The Postcard (Josh Kim/South Korea/15minutes/2007) - Vietnamese Global Film Festival April 27–28, 2013
Roxie Theater, San Francisco
Organized by the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN)[40]
Fellowships
editLê has received fellowships from Fulbright-Hays (Việt Nam), William Joiner Center (US),[41] Civitella Ranieri Foundation (Italy),[42] Fine Arts Work Center (US),[43] Center for Khmer Studies (Cambodia), Art Matters Foundation,[44] International Institute for Asian Studies (Leiden University, the Netherlands),[45] Camargo Foundation (Cassis, France),[46] and PEN Center USA.[47]
Curatorial
editLê co-curated, Miss Saigon with the Wind (2005) at Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica;[48] and Charlie Don’t Surf! (2005) at Centre A, Vancouver, British Columbia;[49] and he co-curated with Leta Ming and Yong Soon Min (2008), humor us at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles; transPOP: Korea Việt Nam Remix (2008–2009) with Yong Soon Min traveling in Seoul, Saigon, Irvine, and San Francisco; the 2012 Taipei Kuandu Biennale, and Love in the Time of War[50] (UC Santa Barbara and SF Camerawork), which features special online-only projects. He co-organized the 2015 Artistic Interventions: Histories, Cartographies in Asia conference[51] (Ph.D. workshops and symposium) in Hong Kong.
Writing
editHe has co-edited special issues of Asian American Literary Review ([Re]Collecting Vietnam,[52] 2015), BOL Journal[53] (Việt Nam and Us,[53] 2008) and Reflections: A Journal of Writing, Service Learning, and Community Literacy (Syracuse University Press, 2008). Lê has also coedited with Professor Lan Duong[54] a special issue of Visual Anthropology[55] (Routledge, forthcoming). He is a reviews co-editor (with Prof. Laura Kina[56]) of Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas (ADVA)[57] (Brill[58]). He was a nominated finalist for the 2009 Sovereign Art Foundation[59] Art Prize (Hong Kong). His poetry collection was a 2013 Crab Orchard Review First Book Award Semi-Finalist.
He received the inaugural Prudential Eye Prize for Best Writing on Asian Contemporary Art in 2015[60]
References
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- ^ "Việt Lê". NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore. 2021-03-06. Retrieved 2021-11-14.
- ^ "Viet H Le". California College of the Arts. Cca.edu. Retrieved 2017-01-15.
- ^ Le, Viet (2012-06-20). "Pop Tarts (Photographic Portfolio)". Positions: Asia Critique. 20 (3). Positions.dukejournals.org: 877–883. doi:10.1215/10679847-1593528. S2CID 145777304. Retrieved 2017-01-21.
- ^ "Crab Orchard Review Volume 14, Number 2". Craborchardreview.siu.edu. 2016-09-01. Retrieved 2017-01-15.
- ^ "What Remains: Returns, Representation, and Traumatic Memory in S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine and Refugee".
- ^ "Amerasia Journal (Volume 30, Number 3, 2004/2005)". Amerasia Journal. 30 (3): i–ii. 2004. doi:10.17953/amer.30.3.91141667736gm401. S2CID 218511533.
- ^ "The Perfume River: Writing From Vietnam book review". Smh.com.au. 2010-04-26. Retrieved 2017-01-15.
- ^ "Strange Cargo | PEN Center USA". Penusa.org. Retrieved 2017-01-15.
- ^ Ellis, Kelly Norman; Hunter, M. L. (2010). Spaces Between Us: Poetry, Prose and Art on HIV/AIDS: Kelly Norman Ellis, ML Hunter: 9780883783207: Amazon.com: Books. Third World Press. ISBN 978-0883783207.
- ^ "Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Art, An Anthology". Cornellpress.cornell.edu. 2012-04-01. Retrieved 2017-01-15.
- ^ a b "'Transnational Lives in Motion' Exhibit Opens at Kellogg Gallery on Feb. 27". PolyCentric, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Retrieved 2021-11-14.
- ^ "Vestige". Hgallerybkk.com. Retrieved 2017-01-15.
- ^ a b "Vestige". bk.asia-city.com. 2014-12-16. Retrieved 2021-11-14.
- ^ a b "Tiệc ảnh và video "tan nÁRT cõi lòng - heARTbreak!" - Hanoi Grapevine". 23 December 2015.
- ^ "นิทรรศการ เจ้า-ของ (ขยายเวลาจัดแสดง)" [Exhibition: Possession (extend showing period)]. Bangkok Art and Culture Center. 13 March 2013. Retrieved 2017-01-15.
- ^ "RioFG&SC2016". Riofgc.com. Retrieved 2017-01-15.
- ^ "'Transnational Lives in Motion' Exhibit Opens at Kellogg Gallery on Feb. 27 | PolyCentric". Polycentric.cpp.edu. 2016-02-25. Retrieved 2017-01-21.
- ^ "Art Projects | boy bang series | page 1". Viet Le. Retrieved 2017-01-21.
- ^ "boy bang by Viet Le and live music by Cartoon Emo". Java Arts Blog Archive. 2010-11-02. Retrieved 2017-01-21.
- ^ "Fall 2007 | Division of Student Life | Creighton University". Creighton.edu. Retrieved 2017-01-21.
- ^ "represent, photopgraphic series by Viet Le: page 1". Vietle.net. Retrieved 2017-01-21.
- ^ "FINE ARTS WORK CENTER in Provincetown - memory". Doczz.net. Retrieved 2017-01-21.
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- ^ "hom(m)e". Viet Le. Retrieved 2017-01-21.
- ^ "Sa Sa Bassac". Archived from the original on 2017-08-16. Retrieved 2017-06-15.
- ^ "Memoirs of a Superfan Vol 11.7 - Inside the Fantastical Mind of Việt Lê". 17 March 2016.
- ^ "PRESS - Northern California Women's Caucus for Art". Ncwca.org. Retrieved 2017-01-21.
- ^ "Sf/Arts". Sf/Arts. 2016-10-09. Retrieved 2017-01-21.
- ^ "Harris Gallery Past Exhibitions | Art and Art History". Sites.laverne.edu. Retrieved 2017-01-21.
- ^ "Queer Rebels Productions – May 29–30: QUEER REBELS FEST – San Francisco".
- ^ Vidani, Peter. "QUEER FOREVER! 14/12 -29/12 2013 (Triển lãm trong khuôn khổ Liên hoan nghệ thuật...)".
- ^ "Queer Rebels Productions – Afro-Asian Visions: Exploding Lineage II".
- ^ "Eleventh Annual Southwest Gay and Lesbian Film Festival" (PDF).
- ^ "Frameline37 - San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival". 28 May 2013.
- ^ "Tag Archive for "Việt Lê" - The Visualist".
- ^ "Boi Band Poser Poster Workshop: S.M.R.G./ Ladydrawers workshop series". Facebook.
- ^ "Love Bang!".
- ^ "Asian American Festival Favorites".
- ^ "San Francisco Global Vietnamese Film Festival". 22 April 2013.
- ^ "William Joiner Institute for the Study of War and Social Consequences | UMass Boston - University of Massachusetts Boston". Umb.edu. 2015-01-23. Retrieved 2017-01-15.
- ^ "Civitella Ranieri". Civitella.org. Retrieved 2017-01-15.
- ^ "Fine Arts Work Center | Alliance of Artists Communities". Artistcommunities.org. Retrieved 2017-01-15.
- ^ "Art Matters Foundation". Art Matters Foundation. Retrieved 2017-01-15.
- ^ "International Institute for Asian Studies". Iias.asia. Retrieved 2017-01-15.
- ^ "The Camargo Foundation". The Camargo Foundation. Retrieved 2017-01-15.
- ^ "PEN Center USA". Penusa.org. Retrieved 2017-01-15.
- ^ Le, Thuy Vo Dang, Linda Trinh Vo and Tram (2015). Vietnamese in Orange County. Arcadia Publishing. p. 124. ISBN 978-1-4671-3321-0.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Charlie Don't Surf; 4 Vietnamese American Artists". Centre A. Centre A. 2005. Retrieved 2017-01-15.
- ^ "Main". Love in the Time of War. 2016-10-15. Retrieved 2017-01-15.
- ^ "Rethinking Asian Studies in a Global Context | A research network supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation". Rethinking.asia. Retrieved 2017-01-15.
- ^ "(Re)Collecting the Vietnam War – Table of Contents | The Asian American Literary Review". Aalr.binghamton.edu. 2010-04-11. Retrieved 2017-01-15.
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- ^ "UC Riverside | Department of Media and Cultural Studies | Lan Duong, Associate Professor". Mcs.ucr.edu. Retrieved 2017-01-15.
- ^ "Browse journals by subject". Taylor & Francis. Tandfonline.com. Retrieved 2017-01-15.
- ^ "Laura Kina". Laura Kina. 2016-12-13. Retrieved 2017-01-15.
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- ^ "Over three centuries of scholarly publishing". Brill. Retrieved 2017-01-15.
- ^ "How it Works". Sovereignartfoundation.com. 2016-12-02. Retrieved 2017-01-15.
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External links
edit- Official website
- CCA Official faculty profile
- Whiting, Sam (2016). "Southeast Asian Artists Reflect on War that's Never in the Past," San Francisco Chronicle. September 28, 2016.
- Chandra, Ravi. "Inside the Fantastical Mind of Việt Lê." Center for Asian American Media (CAAMFest) interview. March 17, 2016.
- International Southeast Asian Film Festival (I-SEA), 2016.
- Glassey-Tranguyen, Trangdai (2015). "Articulating Refug-endity in VietnAmerica and the Diasporas 1975-2015: From Ethnic Autonomy to Global Visibility," Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement: Vol. 10: Iss. 1, Article 5.
- Buchele, Fabiola. "In the Studio: Việt Lê." & of Other Things. December 25, 2015.
- Artistic Interventions: Histories, Cartographies in Asia
- Cornet, Laurence. "War is for the Living: Art and Conflict." Le Journal de la Photagraphie,March 15, 2013. English and French review. Paris, France.
- Hertado, Anna. "Việt Lê: Love Bang! " Projecting Identity exhibition catalogue essay (PDF). Drake University. November 2012. p. 8-11.
- Bui, Diem-My T. "Aesthetic Strategies: Vietnamese American Interventions in Cultural Production" (book chapter discussing Miss Saigon with the Wind, curated by Việt Lê).