UPCOMING
Academia Sinica fellow
Possession
curated by Brian Curtin & Steve Dutton
Me Love You Long Time
curated by Edwin Ramoran
CURRENT
California College of the Arts solo show
two-person solo exhibition with Julie Thi Underhill
ART-icle
"Nude Dudes & Nukes: Photography in Phnom Penh" by Christopher Hearle & Huong Ninh
diaCRITICS feature on art byViệt Lê , Heng Ravuth, Vandy Rattana and Photo Phnom Penh
Offerings/ Offrandes online project France Trépanier, curator | Canada
Cultural Exchange International artist grantee
Department of Cultural Affairs, LA | Phnom Penh, Sài Gòn project
Advanced Study of Khmer (ASK) Fellow, Phnom Penh
Yishu Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art
Nguyễn Như Huy & Việt Lê in Dialogue
Volume 10, # 2, March/April 2011
Long March Project participants Việt Lê and Nguyễn Như Huy collaboratively produced a written dialogue over ten days of traveling together through Beijing, Hangzhou, and Shanghai.
art and poetry featured
Spaces Between Us: Poetry, Prose and Art on HIV/AIDS. Ellis, Kelly Norman, and M.L. Hunter, eds. Third World Press, 2010.
ARCHIVE
“Art as Commodity” Art + Politics series curated by Khiang Hei
Bophana Center, Phnom Penh, June 19, 3pm
In Conversation with Việt Lê artist talk
SASA BASSAC, Phnom Penh, June 11, 630-830p
Decolonial Aesthetics workshop & exhibit
Duke University, May 4-6, 2011
Re-SEAing Southeast Asian Studies
Circuits of Travel: Khmer and Vietnamese Artistic Visions panel,1:10-2:30p |March 10, SFSU
reading celebrating Indivisible Anthology
Japanese American National Museum, LA, 2p January 22, 2011
Long March residency, China
Shanghai, Hangzhou & Beijing, December 2010
Shanghai Art Museum talk, Shanghai Biennale 2p, December 13
Against Easy Listening | curated by Steven Lam 1a space, Hong Kong | Nov 19-Jan 20
Zheng Bo, Luke Ching, Phoebe Hui, Việt Lê, Anson Mak, the Propeller Group, Mieko Shiomi, Adrian Wong, Lyota Yagi, Huang Xiaopeng
boy bang! solo show
Java, Phnom Penh, November 4-28, 2010
Strange Cargo, an Emerging Voices Anthology book launch
Sep. 12, 2010, 5p
Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Ave, Los Angeles 90027
Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference : Circuits of Exchange With(in) Southeast Asian Cinemas
panelist | July 1-4, 2010. Sài Gòn, Việt Nam
DVAN Fundraiser & Silent Auction
May 22, 6-9p, San Francisco
The Perfume River: Writing from Vietnam anthology
Catherine Cole, ed. (Sydney: The University of Western Australia Press, 2010)
book review | press release
Gender & Sexuality
New Art Gallery, #20, St 9, May 10-June 10, 2010, Phnom Penh | press
Global Hybrid II
Hancock University | April 9May 2, 2010 Reception, Friday April 9, 6-9p
1600 Long Beach Blvd, #200, Long Beach CA 90813, USA
Sa Sa Gallery+ Projects Auction/ Fundraiser
March 2010| Help support a great local artist-run space in Phnom Penh!
more info
Curatorship: Four Faces | Việt Lê, Zoe Butt, Chris Meyers, Viviana Meijia
Reyum Institute, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
February 16 & 17, 2009
The Sovereign Asian Art Prize finalist Asia's largest art prize |
The Rotunda, Exchange Square, Hong Kong, Jan. 18, 6-8p
Lê's work raised $8K at auction for children's charity
Spaces Between Us: Poetry, Prose and Art on HIV/AIDS
(Chicago: Third World Press, 2010) poem and pictures of you series published
Cambodia and World History/ World History and Cambodia conference | presenter | Pannasastra University of Cambodia | info
Jan. 3-4, 2010, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
The Pandemic Show | Overtones Gallery
12703 Venice Blvd., Los Angeles, 90066 November 14-December 19, 2009
opening Nov. 14, 2009; 7-10p | closing party Dec. 20, 2009, 8p
Vietnam Update 2009: Migration Nation conference | presenter | The Australian National University, Canberra, AU | link to schedule
November 19-20, 2009
Cente r for Khmer Studies | Research Fellow
Crab Orchard Review :: Color Wheel: Cultural Heritages in the 21st Century (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2010)
poems published | Summer/ Fall 2010 issue
Art Talk | LB City College | 9/21, 1p
The Longest Day of Summer.One Lucky Day | S1F Gallery , Los Angeles| May 2, 2009
Civitella Ranieri Artist-In-Residence June-July 2009, Umbertide, Italy. link to new works | view Civitella Foundation site
art featured
Isabelle Thuy Pelaud. This is All I Choose to Tell: History and Hybridity in Vietnamese American Literature (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2009)
Association of Asian American Studies conference | panelist | Honolulu, Hawai'i
April 22-26, 2009. view link
ASEAN Commemorative Summit | invited speaker|ASEAN-KOREA Dialogue Relationship. Jeju-do, Republic of Korea, June 2, 2009.
UCLA Hammer Museum symposium
artist lecture | March 14, 2009, 9a-1p | 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024. view description
transPOP: Korea Việt Nam Remix symposium | panelist & co-organizer | February 14, ‘09, 9a-5p. view link; schedule; abstracts and bios
transPOP @ YBCA Curators Tour
January 31, ‘09, 2p | 701 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94103. view link
FOB II: Art Speaks
January 9-18, ‘09 | 1600 N. Broadway, Santa Ana, CA 92706. view link
transPOP opening, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts , San Francisco, CA
Courting Risk workshops (4-6p) & reading (8-10p) |reading & workshop leader| November 13, 2008 Macaulay Honors College, New York City, NY
view Courting Risk site
transPOP opening | co-curator| University of California, Irvine, University Art Gallery | October 2, ‘08, 6-8p. gallery views; statement & programs