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

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 9–May 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

Center 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 worksview 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