Curriculum Vitae | Creative                  VIỆT LĘ

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Education

 

Ph.D.               2011. American Studies and Ethnicity Department

                        University of Southern California

 

M.A.                2007. American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California

                                                                                                           

M.F.A.            2001. Studio Art with Graduate Emphasis in Asian American Studies

University of California, Irvine

                                                                                                           

B.F.A              1999. Fine Art, California State University, Fullerton                    

 

 

Solo Exhibitions

 

2012

still

California College of the Arts, San Francisco                                   Dec 10, 2011-Feb 4, 2012

 

2010

boy bang!

Java, Phnom Penh, Cambodia                                                            November 4-28, 2010

 

2009

succeed or quit                                                                                   June 8- July 28, 2009

site-specific installation, Umbria, Italy

 

2007                                                                                                   

what’s love got to do with it?                                                                         October 2007

two-person solo exhibition with Julie Thi Underhill

Creighton University Art Gallery, Omaha, NE                                            

 

2004

represent

site-specific installation, The Banff Centre, Canada                        June 21-July 3,2004

 

pictures of you                                                                                                April 9-17, 2004

Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA

 

It’s a Fine Day

solo performance, Shoshin Performance Space, NYU                      March 5, 2004

 

2002

sweet bitter                                                                                         August 11, 2002

Solo performances by Việt Lę, Leo Garcia, LeVan D. Hawkins, Alex Penn

Curated by LeVan D. Hawkins, Highways Performance Space, SantaMonica, CA

 

2001

the indifference of every day                                                             Sept.-December 2001

multimedia installation of digital images and text in a public space

Cyber A, University of California, Irvine

 

2000

hom(m)e                                                                                              July 2000-Jan. 2001

site-specific installation

Pillsbury Madison & Winthrop LLP, corporate office, Costa Mesa, California

 

1998

Masquerade: A Solo Exhibition                                                         January 27-February 14, 1998

Sight and Sound Gallery, California State University, Fullerton, California

 

 

Group Exhibitions

 

2012

Possession,                                                                                         April 5 – April 30 2012
Curated by Brian Curtin and Steve Dutton

H Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
Lanchester Gallery, Coventry University, UK (dates TBA)                        

 

Me Love You Long Time                                                                     January 2012

Curated by Edwin Ramoran. Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, New Jersey, USA

 

2011

Against Easy Listening                                                                       Nov.19, 2010-Jan. 20, 2011

1aspace, Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Curated by Steven Lam featuring Zheng Bo, Luke Ching, Phoebe Hui, Anson Mak, the Propeller Group, Mieko Shiomi, Adrian Wong, Lyota Yagi, Huang Xiaopeng.

 

offerings/ offrandes

web-based project curated by France Trépanier: www.offerings-offrandes.com

 

2010

Gender & Sexuality: A Pride Exhibition                                           May 10-June 10, 2010

Curated by Vuth Lyno and Alan Hunley. New Art Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

 

DVAN - Reception | Fundraising Event and Silent Auction              May 22, 2010

Infinity Complex, San Francisco, California, USA

 

Global Hybrid II                                                                                 April 9-May 2, 2010

Curated by Denise Scott, Hancock University, Long Beach, CA, USA.

 

Sa Sa Gallery+ Projects Auction/ Fundraiser                                                March 2010

Sa Sa Art Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

 

2009

Sovereign Art Prize finalist exhibition                                              January 2010

Exchange Square, Hong Kong

 

The Pandemic Show                                                                           Nov. 14- Dec. 19, 2009

Overtones Gallery, Los Angeles. Curated by Sandra Low                                                   

 

One Lucky Day                                                                                   May 2, 2009

S1F Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

 

Ersatz                                                                                                  June 4-August 22, 2009

SF Camerawork Gallery, San Francisco, CA

 

Genderqueer                                                                                       April 1-30, 2009

University of California, Riverside LGBT Center, Riverside, CA, USA

 

FOB II: Art Speaks                                                                             January 9-18, 2009

VAALA Center, Santa Ana, CA. Curated by Lan Duong and Tram Le

 

2008

Cừu Sŕn Art                                                                                        September 4-28, 2008

Sŕn Art Independent Art Space, Sŕi Gňn, Việt Nam

 

2007

The Peace Project                                                                              April 22, 2007

High Energy Constructs (video and performance event), Los Angeles, CA

 

Exquisite Crisis and Encounters                                                        February 15-May 31, 2007

7th Floor Gallery, Asian Pacific Islander Institute, New York, New York

 

2006

lobby                                                                                                   March 2-10, 2006

Annenberg, University of Southern California

Exhibition held in conjunction with national Ethnic Studies conference

Los Angeles, CA

 

2005

Carnalville                                                                                         October 30,2005

Curated by Kristina Wong and Marcus Kuiland-Nazario

Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, CA               

           

Genderosity                                                                                        July 1-August 20, 2005

4-F Gallery, Chinatown, LA, CA

 

2004

The OsCene: Contemporary Art and Culture in OC                         Nov. 7- Feb. 27, 2005

Curated by Tyler Stallings, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA

 

untitled                                                                                               June 10-July1, 2004

Ethan Cohen Fine Arts Gallery, New York, NY

 

FAWC

Cape Museum of Fine Arts, MA                                                        May 5-June 20, 2004

 

Erotica                                                                                                January 23-Feb. 10, 2004

Hudson D. Walker Gallery, MA

                                                                                                           

aperture                                                                                              January 16-February 15, 2004

Provincetown Art Association, MA                                      

 

2003

Visual Arts Fellows Group Show                                                       Oct. 24-November 20,2003

Hudson D. Walker Gallery, MA

 

First Annual Alumni Invitational                                                        Oct. 9-Nov. 9, 2003

University Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine

 

Sundown Salon                                                                                    July 27, 2003

Art auction and benefit for Tranny Fest, Los Angeles

 

2002

Post-Op                                                                                               June 23-July 7, 2001

Deep River Gallery, Los Angeles, California

 

Parallel Visions                                                                                  June 26-July 29, 2002

A juried survey of emerging artists from SF to NY dealing with identity and culture

Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA

 

Looking for Dick                                                                                June 6-July 20, 2002

A juried  exploration of new conceptual and aesthetic directions in art as a result of collaborations and mediations with various technologies. Open Studio, Toronto, Canada

 

Interface: A Juried Exhibition Exploring Science, Technology, and Art

California Center for the Arts, Escondido                                        March 19-June 29, 2002

 

Odorific

Crazy Space, Los Angeles, CA                                                          March 10-23, 2002

 

Project Enduring Look                                                                       February 15-24, 2002

1926 Exhibitions Studies Space, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

 

Reactions                                                                                            Jan. 12-March 30, 2002

Exit Art, New York, NY

 

All Media 2001                                                                                  Dec. 1-Jan. 6, 2002

Juried by Mark Moore, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica CA

Irvine Fine Arts Center, CA

 

2001

L.A. Responds                                                                                     Nov. 10-Dec. 10, 2001

group exhibition of works by the Los Angeles community in response to 9/11

Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

 

Why Asia?                                                                                          Oct. 9-Feb. 28, 2001

public street banner project (meditations on memory and loss)

by Godzilla (Asian American Art Network), exhibited in NY, Taiwan, and Hong Kong

Art in General Gallery on Canal Street, New York, NY

 

                                                                                                           

The 3rd New Wight Gallery Biennial                                                 Oct.12- Nov. 9, 2001

juried show of work from graduate art schools in North America and Europe

Dickson Art Center, University of California, Los Angeles

 

in  sinuate                                                                                           May 23-30, 2001

University Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine                                                                                         

Beefcake/Cheesecake: Sex, Flesh, Money, and Dreams                    Sept.1-30, 2001

curated by Tyler Stallings

Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, California

 

Unstable Location                                                                              July 23-Aug.2, 2001

curated by Claude Willey and C. Christensen

University of California, Irvine

 

American Photography Institute–National Seminar Fellows           June 8-15, 2001

(national annual juried photography seminar and exhibition)

New York University Photo Center, Tisch School of the Arts, New York, NY  

 

The Ties that Bind: Constructions of Family, Childhood, and Home in the Visual Arts

(national juried exhibition and art history symposium)

The Lionel Rombach Gallery, The University of Arizona, Tuscon, Arizona    

February 23-March 28, 2001

 

2000               

Gang Bang                                                                                          May 6-May 13, 2000

Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, California

           

Damage Control                                                                                 April 27-May 4, 2000

Advocate Gallery, The Village at Ed Gould Plaza, Los Angeles, California

           

Perceptions                                                                                         May 4, 2000

Alvarado Pavilion, California State University, Fullerton, California

 

 

1999

Art for the New Millennium                                                               November 16, 1999

Claire Trevor Bren Theatre, University of California, Irvine, California

 

For a Limited Time Only (video screened)                                        Nov. 23-Nov.30, 1999

Arthouse Gallery (“Available Space”), Irvine, California

 

Screened                                                                                             July 16, 1999

One night only juried video screening

Humanities Instructional Building 100, University of California, Irvine

                                                                                                                       

Ramayana and Raymond Chandler

Exit Gallery

April 1999

 

1998

Eros

The Center Gallery, California

September 14- October 2, 1998

 

The Student Show

West Gallery, California State University, Fullerton, California

                                                             

Reviews

 

2011

Hearle, Christopher and Huong Ninh “Nude Dudes & Nukes: Photography in Phnom Penh.” diaCRITICS culture blog.

http://diacritics.org/2011/05/16/nude-dudes-and-nukes%E2%80%94photography-in-phnom-penh-winter-2010-and-spring-2011/

 

2010

Foster, Alice. “Boy Band Publicity Gets Serious in Java Exhibit.” The Cambodia Daily. 25 November 2010. National section, p. 25.

 

Boulenger, Emilie. “Asian Pop Inspires Artist.” The Phnom Penh Post. 4 November 2010. Front page, Lifestyle section, p. 21.

 

Sussex, Lucy. “The Perfume River: Writing from Vietnam.” The Age, Entertainment section. 26 April 2010. http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/books/the-perfume-river-writing-from-vietnam-20100426-tmqa.html

 

2009

Taylor, Nora. “The Art of Many Vietnams.” F.O.B. II: Art Speaks catalog, Lan Duong and Tram Le, eds. Westminster: VAALA, 2009, pp. 16-17.

 

2008

An, Thanh.  “Để Mý Thuật Đương Đại Việt Nam Phất Trięn“(Vietnamese Contemporary Art Develops)” Tuổi Trẻ Newspaper, Việt Nam, Culture Section, 28 September 2009.

 

Oh, Jean. “Mix it Up with Korean and Vietnamese Art.” The Korea Herald. 10 January, 2008.

 

Kim, Hyun-joo. “transPOP: Korea Vietnam Remix Review.” Art in Asia. March-April 2008, Volume 4. Seoul: Art in Culture, pp. 107-109.

 

2004

Desauntis, Gerry. “Erotica.”  Bay Windows.  Arts Feature, 15 January 2004.

 

Wood, Ann. “Cutting Through the Lines of Defense.” Banner.

 

2003

Vo, Linda, Ph.D. “Dimensions of Diaspora”(intro), xvi-vxii Amerasia Journal, Vol. 29 No.1 2003

 

Zur, Patricia. “A Field Report” LIP, Volume 2.30

 

Van der Wender, Andre. “Fellows at FAWC” Cape Cod Times. 1 November, 2003.

 

Wood, Ann.  “Around” Provincetown Banner, Arts Section, 30 October, 2003.

 

2002

Goddar, Paul. “A Twisted View of Big Brother” The Toronto Star, 20 June 2002.

 

Walsh, Daniella. “‘All Media’ Soothes the Soul.” The Orange County Register, 2 Jan. 2002.

 

2001

de Holl, Nancy. “What People from Vietnam are Really Like.”  

The UCLA 2001 Wight Biennial catalogue.

 

Hit the Pavement Gallery Guide (artwork featured for Advocate Gallery)

 

2000

Souza, Gery. “Art Gallery” interview. State of the Arts, Fall 2000 issue.

 

“Artists Celebrate Asian Pacific Heritage Month.” InformAsian, April issue.

 

1998

Lim, Deborah. “Eros” interview for the Arts section. The Daily Titan, September 14, 1998 issue.

 

CREATIVE WORK:

 

Visual

 

Lę, Việt. 2012. “Pop Tarts.” boy bang! project featured with artist statement. positions: east asia cultures critique special issue. Mariam Beevi Lâm, Fiona Ngô, and Mimi Nguyễn, guest editors. Volume 20, Issue 3, Winter 2012. Durham: Duke University Press. Forthcoming. 

 

Pelaud, Isabelle Thuy. self-portrait series featured. This is All I Choose to Tell: History and Hybridity in Vietnamese American Literature. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2009.

 

Lę, Việt. 2007. still photographic series featured. BN Magazine, November 2007 issue. 13 pages.

 

Lę, Việt. 2005. “Paper Whites (Narcissus).” Poem and images from the pictures of you photographic series. corpus. Volume 3, No. 1, Fall 2005. Los Angeles and New York: The Institute for Gay Men’s Health, 2005. 10 pages.

 

Le Viet and Ayesha York. 2005. “shadows and light.” West Coast Line 38/3, Winter 2004-05. Vancouver, BC. 10 pages.

 

Written

 

Lę, Việt. 2010. “Secondhand Emotion (Lost),” and “Samsara.” (poems), Courting Risk Poetry Anthology. Khadijah Queen, editor. Forthcoming.

 

Lę, Việt. 2010. “Itaewon Station,” "Lover of Air" and "Griffith Observatory Under Renovation"  (poems). Strange Cargo: Emerging Voices Anthology. Los Angeles: PEN Center USA, 2010. Pp. 81-83.

 

Lę, Việt. 2010. “How to be Promiscuous in an Epidemic” and pictures of you series (poem and artwork. Spaces Between Us: Poetry, Prose and Art on HIV/AIDS anthology. Ellis, Kelly Norman, and M.L. Hunter, eds. Third World Press, 2010. 7 pages.

Lę, Việt. 2010. “Khmer Alphabet” Asia Writes. Online poetry journal: asiawrites.com. April 2010.

 

Lę, Việt. 2010. “Hot Dogs for Dinner,” “Strawberries for Sale” (short story and poem). The Perfume River: Writing from Vietnam anthology. Catherine Cole, editor. Sydney: University of Western Australia Press, 2010. 13 pages.

 

Lę, Việt. 2009. “A-1 Food Market,” “Haunting” (poems). Crab Orchard Review, “Color Wheel” issue, Volume 14, Number 2, Summer/Fall 2009.  Carbondale: Southern Illinois University, 2009. 2 pages.

 

Lę, Việt. 2008. “Fairytale,” Fire on the 405,” “succeed or quit” (poems and artwork). CONSEQUENCE journal.  George Kovach, ed. Boston: William Joiner Center. December 2008. 6 pages.

 

Lę, Việt. 2008. “Lost,” “After Night Class, UCLA.”damau.org. Poetry (English poems translated into Vietnamese) and artwork (boy bang series) featured in LGBT special issue. October 2008 issue. Online publication: damau.org.

 

Lę, Việt. 2007. “Leaving Los Angeles” (personal essay). Love, West Hollywood anthology. Chris Freeman and James J. Berg, eds. New York: Alyson Books, 2007. 10 pages.

 

Lę, Việt. 2006. “Asphalt Cocktail” (poem). Blue Arc West: An Anthology of California Poets. Huntington Beach: Tebot Bach, 2007.

 

Lę, Việt. 2004. “Son of a Gun” (short fiction). Asian Pacific American Journal, Volume 12.1 New York: Asian American Writers Workshop.

 

Lę, Việt. 2004.“The Edge of the World” (poem). So Luminous the Wild Flowers: An Anthology of California Poets. Huntington Beach: Tebot Bach, 2003.

 

Lę, Việt. 2004. Asian Pacific American Journal, Childhood/ Food Issue (featured artist).Volume 12. New York: Asian American Writers Workshop. 3 pages.

                                                                                                           

Lę, Việt. 2004. “I Sleep in Your Old Bed”; “Incense” (poems). Linda Vő, ed.,

Diaspora and Dimensions Amerasia Journal special issue, Vol. 29. No. 1. Los  Angeles: UCLA Asian

American Studies Center Press, 2004. 3 pages.

 

CRITICAL PUBLICATIONS:

 

Peer-Reviewed Publications (Journals and Anthologies)

 

Lę, Việt. 2010. “Artists and Developments in Sŕi Gňn.” Book chapter, Vietnam Update 2009: Migration Nation Anthology. Ashley Carruthers, Philip Taylor, eds. Canberra: Australian National University Press, 2010. Peer-reviewed anthology. 42 pages.

 

Lę, Việt. 2010. “Many Returns: Contemporary Vietnamese Diasporic Artists-Organizers in Hồ Chí Minh City.” Book chapter, Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Art: A Critical Anthology. Boreth Ly and Nora Taylor, eds. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2010. 46 pages.

 

Lę, Việt. 2005. “The Art of War: Vietnamese American Visual Artists Đỉnh Q. Lę, Ann Phông and Nguyễn Tân Hoŕng.” Journal article, “Thirty Years AfterWARd: Vietnamese Americans and U.S. Empire,” Amerasia Journal special issue, Vol. 31, No. 2. Yen Lę Espritu and Thu-Hương Nguyễn-Vő, eds. Los Angeles: UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press, 2005. 20 pages.

 

Co-edited Volumes

Lę, Việt and Chương-Đai Vő, eds. Eye of the Tiger: Southeast Asian Contemporary Art from the Ground Up. Scholarly, visual and personal essays solicited from artists, organizers, critics and scholars in Southeast Asia. Manuscript in progress.

 

Lę, Việt, Kevin Bott, Sylvia Gale, Laura Smith, eds. 2008. Reflections: A Journal of Writing, Service Learning, and Community Literacy. Special online issue on academia and activism. Peer-reviewed print journal. Online publication: http://reflections.syr.edu. 269 pages.

 

Lę, Việt and Yong Soon Min, eds. Vietnam and Us special 7th issue of Journal BOL (Seoul, Korea). Critical essays by Profs. Charles Armstrong, Ashley Carruthers, Lan Dương, Yen Lę Espiritu, Yoon Chung Ro, Woo Don-Son. Visual essays by Susan Silton and others. 358 pages, trilingual: English, Korean and Vietnamese.

 

Lę, Việt and Yong Soon Min, eds. 2008. transPOP: Korea Vietnam Remix. Art exhibition catalogue with critical essays by Profs. Hae-Jong Cho, Heonik Kwon, Việt Nguyễn, Nora Taylor. Seoul: ARKO Art Center, 2008. 239 pages, full color; trilingual: English, Korean and Vietnamese.

 

Lę, Việt and Alice Ming-Wai Jim, eds. 2005. Charlie Don’t Surf: 4 Vietnamese American Artists. Vancouver, BC: Centre for International Asian Art, 2005. Essays by Professors Linda Thinh Vő, Mariam Beevi Lâm, Moira Roth, Cam Vu and Tracy Maclean. 106 pages, full color.

 

Exhibition Catalogues

 

Lę, Việt. 2011. “Thoamada ធម្មតា: Vuth Lyno.” Catalogue Essay. Phnom Penh: SA SA BASSAC 2011. Khmer translation. 4 pages.

 

Lę, Việt. 2010. “Silence and Void, or Double Trouble: Hồng-An Trương’s Visual Archives.” Journal article, The Past is a Distant Colony Anthology. Dwayne Dixon, editor. Durham: Duke University Center for Documentary Studies and the Franklin Center, 2010. 26 pages.

 

Lę, Việt. 2010. “Rice People: Phan Quang’s Art of Place,” catalogue essay. Sŕi Gňn: Galerie Quynh, 2010. English with Vietnamese translation. 16 pages.

                       

Lę, Việt. 2009. “Art, Dioxin and Development: Đỉnh Q. Lę’s Damaged Gene Revisited.” Catalog essay for connect: Art Scene Viet Nam group art exhibition, ifa-Galerie. Berlin: The Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, 2009. German translation. 14 pages.

 

Lę, Việt. 2009. Strictures, Superstructures and Supermodels. Catalog essay for Super Structures exhibition. Sue Hadju, editor. Sŕi Gňn: a little blah blah publications, 2009. 16 pages.

 

Lę, Việt. 2008. “Here Today, Sŕi Gňn Tomorrow: Contemporary Vietnamese Art and Sŕn Art Independent Art Space,” Camerawork magazine, April 2008 issue.13 pages.

 

Lę, Việt. 2008. “All Work, All Play: Of Workers and Cosplayers, Or, POPaganda: The Art of Tiffany Chung,” catalogue essay. New York: Tyler Rollins Fine Art. 14 pages.

           

Lę, Việt. 2008. “Vietnamese Diasporic Artist-Organizers in Việt Nam.” Vietnamese Contemporary Art after Đổi Mới exhibition catalog. Singapore: Singapore Art Museum, 2008. 20 pages.

 

Lę, Việt. 2008. “It’s A Wonderful World: Sandrine Llouquet,” catalogue essay. Sŕi Gňn: Galerie Quynh, 2008. English with Vietnamese translation. 10 pages.

 

 

Art Criticism, Shorter Essays and Reviews

 

Lę, Việt and Nguyễn Nhu Huy. 2011. “Transnationalism in Translation (A Tracing): Nguyễn Nhu Huy and Việt Lę in Conversation.” Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, Volume 10, Number 2, March/April 2011. Beijing: Art and Collection Group. English with Chinese translation. 14 pages.

 

Lę, Việt. 2010. “Cloud Cover: Hoang Duong Cam’s Covert Conceptual Practice.” Asian Contemporary Artists 150. Hyowon Shim, ed. Seoul: Loop Alternative Art Space Publications, 2010. 8 pages.

 

Ninh, Thien-Huong, Chris Hearle and Việt Lę. 2010. “Ho Down: Long March’s Ho Chi Minh Trail Project in Phnom Penh.” diacritics blog article. Online publication: www.diacritics.org. November 2010. 12 pages.

 

Lę, Việt. 2009. “The Center Cannot Hold: Predicaments and Predictions,” Seoul, Korea: Art in Asia and Art in Culture magazines (sister publications), January/February 2009 issue. English with Korean translation. 8 pages.

 

Lę, Việt. 2008. “Home, Again: Notes on Contemporary Vietnamese Art,” Diaaalogues column, Asian Art Archive, November 2008. Online publication: www.aaa.org.hk/newsletter_detail.aspx?newsletter_id=574&newslettertype=archive. 14 pages.

 

Lę, Việt and Yong Soon Min. 2008. “Time After Time: Memory and Modernity in Việt Nam, Korea, and the US,” introductory essay, Vietnam and Us special 7th issue of Journal BOL (Seoul, Korea). Critical essays by Profs. Charles Armstrong, Ashley Carruthers, Lan Dương, Yen Lę Espiritu, Yoon Chung Ro, Woo Don-Son. Việt Lę and Yong Soon Min, guest editors.  Trilingual: English, Korean, Vietnamese. 13 pages.

 

Lę, Việt and Yong Soon Min. 2008. “‘Curatorial Conversations/ Correspondences,” curatorial essay, transPOP: Korea Vietnam Remix. Art exhibition catalogue with critical essays by Profs. Hae-Jong Cho, Heonik Kwon, Việt Nguyễn, Nora Taylor. Việt Lę and Yong Soon Min, eds. Seoul: ARKO Art Center, 2008. Trilingual: English, Korean, Vietnamese. 16 pages.

 

Lę, Việt. 2006. “Korea Việt Nam Remixed,” War and Peace issue, Nhŕ Magazine, November / December 2007 issue. 14 pages.

                                                           

Lę, Việt. 2006. “Aesthetics and Ethnics: Contemporary U.S. Curatorial Strategies and the ‘Postethnic,’” Fuse Magazine, feature article, June 2006. 23 pages.

 

Lę, Việt. 2005. “How Come Charlie Don’t Surf?” Introduction and curatorial essay, Charlie Don’t Surf, Catalogue to art exhibit curated by Việt Lę at Centre A,Vancouver Centre for International Asian Art, BC (April-May 2005). 23 pages.

 

Lę, Việt. 2005. “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun: Miss Saigon with the Wind and the Politics of

Representation.” Nhŕ magazine, February 2005. English with Vietnamese translation. 13 pages.

 

Lę, Việt. 2004. “The Second Coming: Second Annual Queer Faculty Conference.” The Center for Feminist Research Newsletter. On-line publication: http://www.usc.edu/dept/cfr/html/newsletter.htm. 4 pages.

 

Lę, Việt. 1998. “GAMma Rays: The Vision of Asian Gays in Film and Photography.” Journal article,  

The American Papers (juried American Studies essays, September). Fullerton, California State  University. 32 pages.

 

Le,Viet. 2004. Book review of Joel Tan’s Monster. Amerasia Journal, Vol. 30, No. 3. Los Angeles: UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press, 2004. 8 pages.      

 

CURATORIAL

humor us                                                                                 September 14-December 30, 2007

co-curators: Leta Ming, Yong Soon Min, Việt Lę

LA Muncipal Art Gallery, LA, CA. A multimedia exploration of artists who engage in  humorous strategies including play, irony, wit, and satire in their work.

 

transPOP: Korea and Việt Nam Remix                                              October 2007-March 2009

co-curated with Yong Soon Min                                           

ARKO Art Center, Seoul Korea; Galerie Quynh and Sŕn Art Independent Art Space, Sŕi Gňn, Việt Nam; University of California, Irvine University Art Gallery, Irvine, CA, USA; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, USA. Traveling group exhibition exploring pop culture and historical intersections between Korea and Việt Nam and its diasporas, featuring international collaborations. Related programming includes panels, artist’s talks, screenings at each venue. arkoartcenter.or.kr; galeriequynh.com; www.san-art.org; ucigallery.com; ybca.org

 

The National and the National                                                           March 3, 2006

University of Southern California performance event for Ethnic Studies national conference

performance artists: LeVan D. Hawkins, Lan Tran, AR-15

 

Charlie Don’t Surf: 4 Vietnamese American Artists                         April 15-May 21, 2005

Centre A, International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Vancouver, Canada

artists: Dỉnh Q. Lę, Ann Phong, Nguyen Tan Hoang, Tran T. Kim Trang

 

Miss Saigon with the Wind performance event                                 January 6-9, 2005

Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, CA and Vien Dong, Westminster, CA

artists: lę thi diem thúy, Erin O’Brien, Mai Piece, Lan Tran, Uyen Hunh & Tram Le

 

FELLOWSHIPS/ GRANTS:

 

2012    Academia Sinica Postdoctoral Fellow, Taipei, Taiwan

           

2011     Advanced Study of Khmer (ASK) Fellow, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Fulbright

 

            University of Southern California Dissertation Completion Fellowship

 

            University of Southern California Summer Research Grant

 

            Cultural Exchange International (CEI) Art Grant, City of Los Angeles

 

2010    Long March Space invited Residency, Shanghai and Beijing, China

 

            Center for Khmer Studies Khmer Language & Culture Study Program summer fellowship

 

2009    University of Southern California Conference Travel Award Grant

 

            Sovereign Asian Art Prize Finalist, Hong Kong (artwork raised $7,500 at auction for charity)

 

            Center for Khmer Studies Senior Research Fellowship, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

 

            Civitella Ranieri Art Residency Fellow, Umbria, Italy

 

2008    Fulbright-Hays International Dissertation Research Fellow

 

            General Education Teaching Award, College of Arts and Letters, USC

 

            Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program Visiting Scholar, Washington DC

 

2007    Anna Bing Research Fellowship, USC ($18,600–declined) 

           

            PAGE (Publicly Active Graduate Education) Fellow

                        Imagining America Annual Conference, Syracuse, New York

 

            Association for Asian Studies Art and Politics Dissertation Workshop Fellow,

            Boston, MA

 

2006    Rockefeller Fellow, William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences, MA

 

            Vietnamese Advanced Summer Institute Fellowship

                        (Hŕ Nội and Hồ Chí Minh City, Việt Nam)

 

2005    Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS),

                        Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute, Madison, WI

 

2004   Provost’s Fellowship, USC, Program in American Studies and Ethnicity

 

            The Banff Centre IntraNation Project residency fellow, Alberta, Canada

 

2003-4 Fine Arts Work Center Visual Arts residency fellow, Provincetown, MA 

 

            Writers at Work national fellowship finalist

 

2002   PEN Center USA Emerging Voices Rosenthal Fellow, Los Angeles, CA

 

            Squaw Valley Community of Writers scholarship, CA

 

2001   Graduate Opportunity Fellowship, University of California, Irvine

 

2001-02 ArtsBridge scholarship

           

CONFERENCES AND OTHER PRESENTATIONS:

 

Conferences | Invited Lectures:

 

“Testimonies, Representation and Justice: The Khmer Rouge Tribunal.” Invited Panelist. The National Association for the Education and Advancement of Cambodian, Laotian and Vietnamese Americans (NAFEA). October 7-8, 2011.

 

Decolonial Aesthetics roundtable panel. Invited Panelist. Decolonial Aesthetics workshop and exhibition hosted by Walter Mignolo. Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. May 4-7, 2011.

 

“Silence and Void: Hồng-An Trương’s Visual Archives.” Plenary Panel. Re-SEAing Southeast Asian Studies Conference.. San Francisco State University, San Francisco. March 10-11, 2010.

 

 “Contemporary Art Practice and Spaces in Cambodia and Việt Nam.” Invited Talk, Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China. In conjunction with invited Long March Space Beijing Education Residency. December 8-18, 2010.

 

“Contemporary Art in Phnom Penh.” Center for Khmer Studies, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. November 25, 2010.

 

“What Remains: Returns, Confrontations, Representation, and Traumatic Memory

in S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine and Refugee.” Panelist. Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference: Circuits of Exchange With(in) Southeast Asian Cinemas. July 1-4, 2010. Hồ Chí Minh City, Việt Nam.

 

“Performance and Reading by lę thị diễm thúy.” Organizer and moderator. Sŕn Art Independent Art Space, Sŕi Gňn, Việt Nam. May 15, 2010.

 

“Curatorship: Four Faces | Việt Lę, Zoe Butt, Chris Meyers, Viviana Meijia.” Invited Talk, Reyum Institute, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. February 16 & 17, 2009. 

 

 “Returns and Reliving Truamas: Documentary and the Politics of Representation.” Presenter. Cambodia and World History/ World History and Cambodia conference, Pannasastra University of Cambodia.  Jan. 3-4, 2010, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

 

“Artistic Diasporas and Developments in Sŕi Gňn.” Invited Presentation, Migration Nation Conference, Australian National University, Canberra. November 19-20, 2009.

 

“Việt Lę: Photography, Pornography & Autobiography.” Invited Artist Talk, Long Beach City College, Long Beach, CA,USA. September 21, 2009.

 

“Changes and Exchanges: Development and Contemporary Art Dialogue in Việt Nam and Korea.” Invited Talk, ASEAN-Republic of Korea Commemorative Summit, ASEAN-KOREA Dialogue Relationship, Korean Ministry of Arts, Culture, and Tourism. Jeju-do, Republic of Korea, June 2, 2009.

 

“The Art Part: Diasporic Desires and Divides in Việt Nam and Korea,” Invited Talk, William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Its Consequences, Rockefeller Fellow Presentations, Boston, MA, April 27-28, 2009.

 

“VietKor(ps): Shared Histories and Transnational Arts Practices,” Association of Asian American Studies Annual Conference, Honolulu, Hawai'i, April 22-26, 2009.

 

“Transnationalisms, Translation and Transgression.” Invited Talk, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA. Panel on transnational art and curatorial practices held in conjunction with the publication of Asian American Art: A History, 1850-1. March 14, 2009.

 

“Introductions” and “Modern Love: Discrepant Modernities and New Subjectivities” Roundtable Panel, transPOP Symposium. Panelist and Co-organizer (with Yong Soon Min). Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California Berkeley. February 14, 2009.

 

transPOP Panel and Gallery Walkthrough Co-organizer, University of California, Irvine. November 2, 2008.

 

“Miss(ing) Saigon: Vietnamese Diasporic Artists Residing in Việt Nam.” Invited Talk, Vietnamese Contemporary Art after Đổi Mới symposium, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore. May 16-18, 2008.

 

“The Art Part: Art, Curating and Communities.” Invited Lecture, Đong Sơn Today Foundation, Hŕ Nội, Việt Nam. April 26, 2008.

 

“What’s Love Got to Do with It? Notes on Art, Activism in Asia/ America.”

Invited  Lecture, California State University, Long Beach, CA. November 8, 2007.

 

“25 Years of AIDS and Activism: Michael Kearns,” American Studies Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA. Panel Chair. October 16, 2007.

 

“Asian/ American Art: Việt Lę and Julie Thi Underhill”  Creighton University, Omaha Nebraska. Three Invited Lectures and Artist Exhibition. October 13-15, 2007.

 

“In Visible Cities, or, Miss(ing) Saigon: Ethnographic Notes on Contemporary Vietnamese Art in Hŕ Nội and Hồ Chí Minh City,” Crosstown Connections: Association for Asian American Studies conference, New York City, April 4-6, 2007.

 

“Haunted Desires: AIDS, Trauma, the Uncanny, and Visual Art,” Ghosts, Monsters, and the Dead: Crossing Borders Ethnic Studies conference, UCSD, San Diego, CA. March 5, 2007.

 

“Beyond Love and War: Diasporic Contemporary Art, Activism, and Audiences—Việt Nam, Korea, and the U.S.” Invited Lecture. Panel Organizer for interdisciplinary roundtable panel of Vietnamese American and Korean American artists and scholars examines and questions the parameters of Vietnamese local and diasporic cultural production within a transnational framework. Professors Viet Nguyen, Lan Duong, Yong Soon Min with artists/ activists Tram Le and Việt Lę. LA><ART, Los Angeles, CA. March 3, 2007.

 

“The Art of Đỉnh Q. Lę,” Moderator (artist’s talk with Đỉnh Q. Lę ) for South by Southeast: Indian and Vietnamese Artists in a Transnational Age (Asians in the Americas/ Americans in Asia) event, University of Southern California, CA. February 1, 2007.

 

“Love is A Battlefield: Trauma, Representation, and Memory in Contemporary Vietnamese and Korean Cinema,” American Studies Association conference, Oakland, CA. October 12-15, 2007.

 

“Pop Heard ‘Round the World: Korea and Việt Nam in the Mix,” Invited Lecture with Yong Soon Min and Việt Lę. Saigon Open City, Hồ Chí Minh City, July 5, 2007.

 

“The Politics of Transnational Contemporary Art Practice and Curating,” Invited Lecture with Yong Soon Min, Soo Yong Chin, Việt Lę. Sŕi Gňn Association of Fine Arts, Hồ Chí Minh City. August 30, 2007.

 

“Karma Chameleon: Curatorial Strategies and Race in Contemporary Visual Art,’” Paper Presented, Bodies, Communities, Regions: Association for Asian American Studies conference, Atlanta, Georgia.  March 22-26, 2006.

 

“Aesthetics and Ethnics: Contemporary U.S. Curatorial Strategies and the ‘Postethnic,’” Paper Presented, The National and the Natural: Reconciling Gaps and Breaks. 4th Annual Ethnic Studies Conference, University of Southern California, CA. March 4, 2006.

                                                                                   

“Vietnamese and Vietnamese Diasporic Visual Art,” Paper Presented, Southeast Asian Studies Conference, University of Madison, Wisconsin, May 19, 2005.

 

“Time and Again: Vietnamese Diasporic Cultural Production,” Paper Presented,  The Vietnam War, Thirty Years On: Memories, Legacies, and Echoes Conference,  The University of Newcastle, Australia. April 14-15 2005.

 

“The Horror, The Horror: The Vietnam War, Representation, Race and Memory,” Paper Presented, Thirty Years Beyond the War Conference, University of California, Riverside. April 2005.

 

“Charlie Don’t Surf: Four Vietnamese North American Artists,” Panel Organizer and Moderator, Centre A, British Columbia. April 2005.

           

“Gender and Sexuality in Dang Nhat Minh’s Films,” Panel Presentation (panelists: Dhang Nhat Minh, Dr. Thu-Huong Vuong, Dr. Kung Hyun Kim, Dan Tsang), University of California, Irvine. October 2005.

  

“Enacting Identity: Asian American and Pacific Islander Performance Art and Activism,” Panel Organizer and Moderator, Crossing Boundaries: Asian American Studies Regional Conference,

Cal Poly Pomona. November 2003.

           

“Racialized Desires and Contested Spaces,” Panel Organizer and Moderator,  Crosstalk II:  Asian American Sexualities Conference, California State University, Northridge. November 2003.

 

Other Presentations (Invited Readings, Workshops and Talks):

 

“Art as Commodity” Art + Politics discussion series curated by Khiang Hei. Bophana Audiovisual Resource Center, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. June 19, 2011.

 

“In Conversation with Việt Lę.” Artist Talk series hosted by SASA BASSAC, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Moderated by Pamela Nguyễn Corey. June 11, 2011.

 

“Indivisible.” Invited Reading, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, CA. January 22, 2011.

 

“I’m All Out of Love: Việt Lę’s Artistic and Curatorial Practice.” Artist Talk, Java Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. November 14, 2010.

“Courting Risk.” Invited Workshop and Reading, Macaulay Honors College, City University of New York. November 13, 2008.

 

“Political Choices, Artistic Voices.” Invited Panelist, VAALA Center, Santa Ana, CA, January 18, 2009.

“Artists InSight –Artists In Conversation.” Invited Panelist, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA. February 13, 2009.  Imagining our Future lecture series.

 

“Curators Tour, Big Ideas Open House” Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA. January 31, 2009.

 

“Leaving Los Angeles.” Invited Reading and Panel for Love, West Hollywood anthology (Alyson Books, 2007), Californnia State University, Los Angeles, Los Angeles. October 5, 2008. 

 

“Sex Behind the Orange Curtain: Erotism and Art,” Invited Lecture, Laguna Art Museum. November 2005.

 

“Writers in Exile,” Panel Presentation and Reading (sponsored by PEN USA),

West Hollywood Book Fair. September 2003.         

 

Engaging with Uncertainties: Local and Global Actions, Asian American Studies Regional Conference, Boston. March 27, 2004

 

Writers in Exile, Panel Presentation and Reading (sponsored by PEN USA),  West Hollywood Book

Fair. September 2003.

 

Multicultural Voices reading cohosted by PEN Center Orange County and UCI Center for Writing and

Translation. September 26, 2003.

 

Reflections of Wars reading, California State University, Northridge. May 7, 2003

 

Tebot Bach Anthology of California Poets                                       

reading and book launch party, Golden West College, Huntington Beach, CA. April 17, 2003

 

Rage (a play by Việt Lę).Staged reading at East West Players, Los Angeles. March 17, 2003

 

War and Other Matters. Featured reader for Track 16 Nights (part of a series) at Track 16 Gallery,

Santa Monica, CA. January 31, 2003

 

Sense of  Site. Group poetry reading of poets selected for the Sense of Site project

Skylight Books, Los Angeles. November 13, 2002

 

Hot Summer Nights, an evening of poetry, experimental music and film, hosted by the L.A. Cultural

Affairs Dept. Hisaki Theater, Japanese American National Museum. August 31, 2002

 

Emerging Voices Reading, an evening of readings by the seven 2002 PEN Emerging Voices Fellows

Mark Taper Auditorium, Los Angeles. July 31, 2002.

 

InspirationHouse: Voice Music for Whole Living. KPFK 90.7 FM. Featured reader, host Peter

Harris. June 10, 2002.

 

Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, Etc... Stage, featured reader. April 28, 2002.

 

 

Employment

 

University of Southern California: Teaching Assistant                               spring ’08-continuing

Teaching undergraduate discussion sections for an undergraduate general education Sociology course on social problems, social psychology and social research mehods for Professor Michael Messner and Professor Julie Albright.

 

University of Southern California: Teaching Assistant                                fall ‘06, spring ‘07

Teaching undergraduate discussion sections for a course on race, ethnicity and class in Los Angeles for Professor Leiland Saito and Professor Sarah Gaultieri.

 

University of California, Irvine: Lecturer, art history/ studio art                  winter '01-fall ‘03

Taught Visual Culture classes, a combined art history lecture (1900-present) and interdisciplinary studio art course. 

 

Irvine Valley College/ Golden West College: art history instructor             fall 2001-spring ‘03

Taught undergraduate art history lecture survey courses, spanning from

prehistoric art to contemporary art movements. Socio-political context of work also discussed.

 

 

Collections

Antoine Seguin, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Sovereign Foundation, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Pilsbury, Madison & Sutro, LLP, Costa Mesa, CA

Michael Buitrňn, Long Beach, CA

David Ricketts, New York, NY

Joel Peters, Provincetown, MA

Fehl Cannon, Miami, FL