Lives and works in Ho Chi Minh City.

Education
2004       
Master of Fine Arts, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, USA
1999       
Bachelor of Arts, Studio Art, with Minor in Digital Arts, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA

Selected exhibitions / screenings / performances
2010   
Your Name Here, exhibition organized by San Art at L’Usine, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
2009   
Lim Dim – Unge kunstnere fra Vietnam, curated by Tran Luong, Stenersenmuseet, Oslo, Norway
Intersection Vietnam: New Works from North and South, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Time Ligaments, 10 Chancery Lane ART PROJECTS and ANNEX, Hong Kong
Caution! Development in Progress, Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Oberhausen Film Festival, Germany
What’s the Big Idea?, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA
2008       
Strategies from Within, Ke Center for the Contemporary Arts, Shanghai, China
The Third Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Quiet Shiny Words / Cultural Doppelgangbangers, Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Fourth Biennial Cinema Symposium, Northwest Auditorium, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
transPOP: Korea Vietnam Remix, ARKO Art Center, Seoul, Korea. Traveled to the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Wonder, 2nd Singapore Biennale, Singapore
Annual Report: A Year in Exhibitions, 7th Gwangju Biennale, Korea
The Farmers & The Helicopters, Freer & Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA
2007   
The 6th NHK Asian Film Festival, Fureai Hall, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
Requiem for a Wall, Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
The History of a Decade That Has Not Yet Been Named, 9th Lyon Biennial, Lyon, France
The Peace Project, High Energy Constructs Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
KölnShow2... what will be told of today tomorrow, European Kunsthalle, Köln, Germany
3rd Vietnamese International Film Festival (ViFF), UC Irvine, UCLA, and Westminster, Los Angeles, CA
Eternal Flame: Imagining a Future at the End of the World, The Gallery at Redcat, Los Angeles, CA
Depiction Perversion Repulsion Obsession Subversion, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Witte de Withe, Center for Contemporary Arts, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2006   
5th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art GalleryGallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
26th Louis Vuitton Hawaii International Film Festival, Honolulu, Hawaii
Imaginary Country, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Diaspora, Esplanade Concert Hall, Singapore
2005       
Bangkok Democrazy, The 4th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival, Bangkok, Thailand
US Asean Film Festival, Falls Church, VA
AFM American Film Market, Santa Monica, CA
18th Annual Singapore International Film Festival, Singapore
Short Shorts Film Festival Asia, Tokyo, Japan
2004       
Under the Couch Film/Video Festival, Los Angeles, CA
In Place of Place, One Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
e-flux video rental project, e-flux, New York City, NY
There’s No Place Like Place, One Night Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Supersonic, The Windtunnel, Pasadena, CA
While Dodging Fake Bullets in the Dark, Voz Alta Projects, San Diego, CA
Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film & Video Festival, Director’s Guild of America,
Los Angeles, CA
Trying to Kill Me by Accident, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2003       
Vietnamese International Film Festival, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA
MINE, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York, NY
re:fresh; re-thinking the relationship between hip hop and art, California Instituteof the Arts, Valencia, CA
2002   
Platforms, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
WHATEVER, Scott Donovan Gallery, Sydney, Australia
F.O.B., Nguoi Viet Art Gallery, Westminster, CA
7th Annual Chicago Asian American Film Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, IL
2001       
T-10, 21 Grand Gallery, Oakland, CA
Friday Night Shorts Festival, Los Angeles Film School, Los Angeles, CA
2000       
Exquisite Corpse, www.loudcricket.com, online collaborative digital art exhibition
5th Annual Chicago Asian American Film Festival, Chicago, IL
1999       
New Year’s Resolutions, performance, Visual Communications Center, Los Angeles, CA
When the Water’s Warm Enough, Deep River, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film & Video Festival, Director’s Guild of America, Los Angeles, CA
Heroes and Hernias, performance, UC Irvine, CA
Undies, UCI Art Gallery, UC Irvine CA
Centered on the Center, Huntington Beach Museum of Art,
Huntington Beach, CA
Artifacts, UCI Art Gallery, UC Irvine, CA
1998       
En route: constructing home, collaborative public installation, 73 Freeway, Irvine, CA
Regression and Seasickness: dripping seawater and seeing home/beginning     departure, MAB space, Irvine, CA
Uneven Eyes and Eyeliner, collaborative performance, Visual Communications Center, Los Angeles, CA
Artifacts, UCI Art Gallery / Film Lecture Hall, UC Irvine, CA
Third Annual Asian American Art Exhibition, Huntington Beach Museum of Art, Huntington Beach, CA
Got Space, UCI Art Gallery, UC Irvine, CA

Lectures / workshops / panels
2008       
transPOP: Korea Vietnam Remix, panelist, Seoul, Korea
2007       
UC Irvine, School of Art, artist lecture, Irvine, CA
California Institute of the Arts, visiting artist, Valencia, CA
2006       
GOMA, Queensland Art Gallery, guest speaker, “White Cube Black Box,” Queensland, Australia
2005       
Atelier Wonderful, guest speaker, “When is Graffiti,” Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
2002   
Scripps College, guest lecturer, “Falling to Peaces, A Seminar in Art, Theory, and Violence,” Claremont, CA
1999       
UC San Diego, “U.S. Literature of the Viet Nam War,” San Diego, CA

Community art / arts education
2004       
Community Arts Partnership, John Hope High School, Los Angeles, CA
Community Arts Partnership, Phoenix High School, Venice, CA
2003   
Community Arts Partnership, Santa Clarita Valley Boys & Girls Club, Valencia, CA
California Institute of the Arts, Arts Pedagogy, Teacher’s Assistant
2000       
Fullerton High School, Artsbridge grant, student teacher
1999        
Foshay Learning Center, Arts in Education Program (in partnership with KAM Cares and USC),     student teacher

Bibliography
2007       
Eternal Flame, Imagining a Future at the End of the World, curated by Eungie Joo, exhibition catalogue
Exhibition Catalog | Köln Show 2, curated by Nicolaus Schafhausen & Florian Waldvogel
2006       
Exhibition Catalog | 5th Asia Pacific Triennial, text by Gridthiya Gaweewong
2003       
“Vietnamese International Film Festival, Part II,” R. Scott Moxley,  OC Weekly, October 31, 2003
2002       
"And You Could Feel Their Energy,"  Trisha Nguyen, URB.com, May 2002
2000       
Exhibition Catalog | 5th Annual Chicago Asian American Film Festival
1999       
“Lineup Set for L.A. Asian Pacific Film Fest,” Audrey Shiomi,  The Rafu Shimpo, May 14, 1999
”boom boom and Ekleipsis,“ Daniel C. Tsang, OC Weekly, vol. 4 no. 36, May 14 - 20, 1999
“Calendar Weekend,” Los Angeles Times, May 13, 1999
Exhibition Catalog | 14th Annual Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film & Video Festival