Việt Lê
Việt Lê (born 1976) is a Vietnamese-born American artist, writer, and curator. Lê is an associate professor at the California College of the Arts. He has been published in "positions: Asia critique"; "Crab Orchard Review"; "American Quarterly"; "Amerasia Journal; Art Journal"; and the anthologies "Writing from the Perfume River"; "Strange Cargo"; "The Spaces Between Us"; "Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Art"; among others. Biography. Việt Lê was born in 1976 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Lê received his M.F.A. degree from the University of California, Irvine. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of  Southern California. In Taipei, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Academia Sinica. Exhibitions. Solo art exhibitions include "lovebang!" (2016) at Kellogg University Art Gallery, Los Angeles; "vestige" (2015) at H Gallery, Bangkok; "tan nÁRT cõi lòng | heARTbreak!" (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), Thailand; Civitella Ranieri, Italy; Shanghai Biennale, China; Rio Gay Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; among other venues. Solo exhibitions. 2016 2015 2012  2010 2009 2007 2004 2002 2001 2000 1998 Experimental Films. "lovebang! trilogy" 2012-17 Group exhibitions. 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 Fellowships. Lê has received fellowships from Fulbright-Hays (Việt Nam), William Joiner Center (US), Civitella Ranieri Foundation (Italy), Fine Arts Work Center (US), Center for Khmer Studies (Cambodia), Art Matters Foundation, International Institute for Asian Studies (Leiden University, the Netherlands), Camargo Foundation (Cassis, France), and PEN Center USA. Curatorial. Lê co-curated, "Miss Saigon with the Wind" (2005) at Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica; and "Charlie Don’t Surf!" (2005) at Centre A, Vancouver, British Columbia; 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" (UC Santa Barbara and SF Camerawork), which features special online-only projects. He co-organized the 2015 "Artistic Interventions: Histories, Cartographies in Asia" conference (Ph.D. workshops and symposium) in Hong Kong. Writing. He has co-edited special issues of "[http://aalr.binghamton.edu/recollecting-the-vietnam-war-table-of-contents/ <nowiki>Asian American Literary Review ([Re]Collecting Vietnam</nowiki>]", 2015 ), "BOL Journal (Việt Nam and Us", 2008) and "Reflections: A Journal of Writing, Service Learning, and Community Literacy" (Syracuse University Press, 2008). Lê has also coedited with Professor Lan Duong a special issue of "Visual Anthropology" (Routledge, forthcoming). He is a reviews co-editor (with Prof. Laura Kina) of "Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas (ADVA)" (Brill). He was a nominated finalist for the 2009 Sovereign Art Foundation 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