Born Ha-Tien, Vietnam
One & Two Person Exhibitions
2005
A Higher Plane, Asia Society, New York, NY
2004
From Vietnam to Hollywood, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong
From Vietnam to Hollywood, P.P.O.W., New York, NY
Home Coming, University Art Museum, Santa Babara, CA
From Vietnam to Hollywood, Photology, Milan, Italy
2003
From Vietnam to Hollywood, ShoshanaWayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Waking Dreams, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
Texture of Memory, Three River Art Festival, Pittsburg, PA
Persistence of Memory, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Texture of Memory, PPOW, New York, NY
2000
Persistence of Memory, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
True Voyage is Return, Montgomery Gallery, Pomona College, Claremont, CA
Cambodia: Splendour and Darkness, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, X
Cambodia: Splendour and Darkness, J. B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
1999
Lotusland, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1998
Splendor & Darkness, P.P.O.W., New York, NY
The Headless Buddha, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies (cat.; traveled to Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR; Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, MA; and Sesnon Gallery, Porter College, Santa Cruz, CA)
1992
Tyler School of Art Gallery, Elkins Park, PA
1990
Combinations: Dinh Le and Martina Lopez, The Friends of Photography,
Ansel Adams Museum, San Francisco, CA
Portraying a White God, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
1990
Midtown Y Photography Gallery, New York, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2004
Only Skin Deep, International Center for Photography, New York, NY
Identities Versus Globalization?, National Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
2003
Delays and Revolutions, Venice Biennale, Italy
Commodification of Buddhism, The Bronx Museum, NY
The Body of Christ, The Isreal Museum of Art, Isreal
Corpus Christie, Patrimoine Photographique, Paris, France
Skin Deep, Numark Gallery, Washington D.C.
Un/Familiar Territory, San Jose Museum of Art, CA
Identities Versus Globalization?, Chaing Mai Art Museum, Chaing Mai, Thailand
2002
Crisis Response, RISD Museum, Providence, RI
Sugar & Cream, Triple Candie Gallery, NY
Global Address, Fisher Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Collecting Contemporary Art, Ackland Art Museum, NC
Lysis: Profound Loss, Healing, and Identity, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, NY
Eye In The Sky, Ackland Art Museum, NC
Rhythms & Rituals That Feed My Spirit, The Bronx Museum, NY
2001
Floating Chimeras, Edsvik Konst Och Kultur, Stockholm, Sweden
Conceptual Color: In Alber's Afterimage, San Francisco State University, CA
Conceptual: Sequence, Pairs, Hybrid, Orange Coast College, CA
Indochina: The Art of War, Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2000
Shifting Perceptions: Contemporary LA Visions, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA
Beyond Boundaries: Contemporary Photography in California, Ansel Adams Museum, San Francisco, CA to travel to California State University, Los Angeles, CA and California State University, Long Beach, CA (catalogue)
Of the Moment, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
You Can't Go Home Again: The Art of Exile, Philadelphia Art Alliance, hiladelphia, PA
The Changing Face of Portraiture, Chapman University, Orange, CA
Touch: Contemporary Vietnamese Photography, Cypress College Fine Art & Photography Galleries, Cypress, CA
ID/Y2K: Identity at the Millenium, Castle Gallery, New Rochelle, NY
1999
Slow Release: The Rich Mix Exhibition, Bishopsgate, Goodyard, London, England
Pattern, James Graham & Sons, New York, NY
You Can't Go Home Again: The Art of Exile, Brattleboro Museum, Brattleboro, VT
Emerging Images, Susquehana Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
1998
Bioethics: Thresholds of Corporal Completeness, Side Street Projects, Santa Monica, CA
Fabrications: U.S. Photography, Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland OR (traveled to Vrais Reves Gallery, Lyons, France; 'Hotel du Musée, Arles; La Galerie 36, Paris; l'Espace Pereisc, Toulon, France; Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland; Musée de la Photographie, harleroi, Belgium)
Uncommon Traits III, Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Art, Buffalo, NY
1997
Points of Entry, High Museum of Art, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta; The Jewish Museum, New York; Miami Art Museum; Eastman International Museum of Photography, Rochester, NY; The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
1996
Chambers of Enchantment, Center for Exploratory and Perceptal Art, Buffalo, NY
A Labor of Love, The New Museum, New York, NY
The Present(H)Our: Artists Utilizing Issues of Identity, Oakland Museum, CA
Pushing Image Paradigms: Conceptual Maneuvers in Recent Photography, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
1995
Picturing Asian America: Communities, Culture, Difference, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh; Hunt Gallery, Webster University, St. Louis, MO
Tracing Cultures, The Friends of Photography, Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco; Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA; Center for Creative Photography, Tuscon, AZ
Welcome to Asia America, Cambridge Multicultural Art Center, MA
Identity Crisis, Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, MA
1994
Beyond the Borders, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
Barbie and Beyond, Morphos Gallery, San Francisco
Picturing Asia America: Communities, Culture, Difference,
Houston Center for Photography, TX
Asian-American in the Arts, Tweed Gallery, New York
Four Photographers, SFMOMA Rental Gallery, San Francisco
Retrospective: Awards in the Visual Arts, Betteravia Gallery, Santa Monica,CA;
Elverhoy Museum, Solvang, CA; Ro Snell Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
The DuPont Fellowship, The Art Institute of Boston, MA
Rituals: Social Identity/A View from Within, Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Art (CEPA), Buffalo, NY
1993
Reflections for Peace, Mexican-Arte Museum, Austin, TX (traveled)
Three: Works by '92-'93 Artists in Residence, Elaine Tin Nyo, Alexander Ku, and Dinh Le, Asian-American Arts Centre, New York
Interior Dialogues, Montage '93, Rochester, NY
We Count, Tweed Gallery, New York
1992
Here and Now, Now and Then, Longwood Arts Gallery, 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 (Organized by the Bronx Museum)
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Visual Art Gallery, New York, NY
1991
Articulated Disparities: Renegotiating Masculinity, (Anthony Aziz, Lyle Ashton Harris, Alan Labb, Dinh Le, and Anne Rowland), Gallery 1, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
Director's Choice: Joanne Hammer, Dinh Le, Kendall Shaw, and Athena Tacha, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York
Warp and Woof: Comfort and Dissent, Artists Space, New York, NY
1990
County of Santa Barbara Art Commission, Individual Artist Award Winners 1989-90, Channing Peake Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
The Definitive American Contemporary Quilt, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York (catalogue; traveled)
Photo Metro #8, Vision Gallery, San Francisco
HONORS/AWARDS
1998
Public Project Grant, The Gunk Foundation
1994
National Endowment for the Arts, Fellowship in Photography
1994
The Dupont Fellowship, The Art Institute of Boston
1993
Travel Pilot Grant, Arts International & National Endowment for the Arts
1992
Artist in Residence, Asian-American Arts Centre, New York
Individual Fellowship, Art Matters Inc., New York
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
1990
Individual Artist Award, County of Santa Barbara Art Commission
Photo Metro Fine Art Award, San Francisco
1989
Juror's Award, Santa Barbara Art Association
University Art Affiliate Award, University of California, Santa Barbara
Public Projects
1998
Damaged Gene, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; sponsored by the Gunk Foundation
1995
Biography Memorial, 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, the Montefiore Family Health Center, Bronx, NY
1993
Race, Gender, Sexuality, Organized by Painted Bride Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1992
Accountability, Creative Time, citywide poster/postcard project, New York, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.
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Education
1992
MFA, Photography, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
1989
BA, Fine Arts, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
Collections
Museum of Modern Art
The Isreal Museum
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art
J. B. Speed Art Museum
The Bronx Museum
Ackland Art Museum
UC Santa Barbara Art Museum
Portland Art Museum
The Ford Foundation
The Rothschild Foundation
The Norton Family Foundation
Goldman Sachs & Co.
JGS Foundation
JP Morgan Chase
General Mills & private collections
Represented by
P.P.O.W., New York, NY
ShoshanaWayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong SAR
