Dinh Q. Lê - Artists - PPOW Gallery

Dinh Q. Lê

b. 1968, Ha-Tien, Vietnam d. 2024, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Education

1992 M.F.A. Photography and Related Media, The School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

1989 B.A. Fine Arts, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA

Solo Exhibitions

2023 Dinh Q. Lê: Fragile Springs, University of New Hampshire Museum of Art, Durham, NH

2022 Photographing the thread of memory, musée du quai Branly, Paris, France

2021 Monuments and Memorials, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR

2020 Fragile Springs, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR

2019 Pure Land, Tang Contemporary Art Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand

2018 Dinh Q. Lê: True Journey is Return, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA SKIN ON SKIN, Dinh Q. Lê Solo Exhibition, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong Dinh Q. Lê: Earthly Delights, Project Fulfill Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan Dinh Q. Lê: Monuments and Memorials, STPI, Singapore

2017 The Scrolls Distortion, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA The Colony, Museum Boijimans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

2016 Dinh Q. Lê: Beautiful Terror, Viking Union Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA Memory for Tomorrow, Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan The Colony, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom The Colony, ArtAngel, Peckham, United Kingdom The Colony, Site Gallery, Sheffield, United Kingdom

2015 Memory for Tomorrow, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

2014 Crossing the Farther Shore, Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, TX Warp, Woof, Zero, One, P·P·O·W, New York, NY

2013 Fixing the Impermanent, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR

2012 Erasure, 10 Chancery Lane Art Gallery Projects, Hong Kong Remnants, Ruins, Civilization, and Empire, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2011 Scars and Other Remnants, Prince Claus Fund Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Saigon Diary, University of Buffalo Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, NY Erasure, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney, Australia South China Sea Pishkun, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom

2010 Projects 93: Dinh Q. Lê, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Dinh Q. Lê, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Parkside, Australia Signs and Signals from the Periphery, ASU Art Museum, Tempe, AZ Elegies, P·P·O·W, New York, New York

2009 Signs and Signals from the Periphery, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR A Tapestry of Memories: The Art of Dinh Q. Lê, Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, MA All that is Solid, City Vision Festival, Mechelen, Belgium

2008 A Quagmire This Time, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA The Penal Colony, P·P·O·W, New York, NY After the War, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA

2007 A Tapestry of Memories: The Art of Dinh Q. Lê, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA From Father to Son: A Right of Passage, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR

2006 The Imaginary Country, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Tapestries, P·P·O·W, New York, NY

2005 Vietnam: Destination for the New Millennium, Asia Society, New York, NY A Higher Plane, Asia Society, New York, NY

2004 Homecoming, University of California Santa Barbara University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA From Vietnam to Hollywood, P·P·O·W, New York, NY From Vietnam to Hollywood, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong Photology, Milan, Italy

2003 From Vietnam to Hollywood, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Waking Dreams, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR Qua Ben Nuoc Xua (Collaboration with Sue Hadju), Mai Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

2001 We are Named, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY The Texture of Memory, P·P·O·W, New York, NY Persistence of Memory, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA The Texture of Memory, Three Rivers Art Festival, Pittsburgh, PA

2000 We are Named: Photo-based Works by Dinh Q. Lê and Michael Rauner, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO Persistence of Memory, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR Cambodia: Splendor & Darkness, The Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX True Voyage is Return, Montgomery Gallery, Pomona College, Pomona, CA

1999 Lotusland, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1998 Splendor and Darkness, P·P·O·W, New York, NY The Headless Buddha, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Los Angeles, CA; Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR; Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, MA; Sesnon Gallery, Porter College, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA Uncommon Traits, Relocating Asia, Part III, Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Art, Buffalo, NY

1992 Tyler School of Art Gallery, Elkins Park, PA

1991 Portraying a White God, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA

1990 Midtown Y Photography Gallery, New York, NY

Select Group Exhibitions

2024 Constellations: Racial myths, land, and labour, Esker Foundation, Calgary, Canada Spirit House, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA Legacies: Asian American Art Movements in New York City (1969-2001), 80WSE, New York University, New York, NY Tradition Interrupted, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA; Juliet Art Museum, Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences, Charleston, WV; Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA; Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum, University City, MI; Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY; Lamont Gallery, Phillip Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH; Oklahoma State University Museum of Art, Stillwater, OK; Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX; Springfield Art Museum, Springfiel, MO; Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA; The Baker Museum at Artis—Naples, Naples, FL; Marion Art Gallery at SUNY, Fredonia, NY Translations: Afro-Asian Poetics, The Institutum, Gillman Barracks, Singapore Ichihara x Art x Connections Crossing of Worlds and Me, Ichihara Lakeside Museum, Ichihara City, Japan

2023 Artists in a Time of War, Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Rivoli, Italy So it appears, Institute for Contemporary Art, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

2022 Global Asias: Contemporary Asian & Asian American Art, Yellowstone Museum of Art, Billings, MT Social Fabric: Textiles and Contemporary Issues, Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI Living Pictures: Photography in Southeast Asia, National Gallery Singapore, Civic District, Singapore Past/Present/Future: Expanding Indigenous American, Latinx, Hispanic American, Asian American, and Pacific Islander Perspectives in Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Global Asias: Contemporary Asian & Asian American Art, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN Global Asias: Contemporary Asian & Asian American Art, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY

2021 RECOVERY, P·P·O·W, New York, NY Global Asias: Contemporary Asian & Asian American Art, Palmer Art Museum, University Park, PA Singapore Children’s Biennale 2021, National Gallery Singapore, Singapore Asia Society Triennial: We Do Not Dream Alone, Asia Society Museum, New York, NY The Tides of the Century 2020, Ocean Flower Island Museum, Hainan, China Living Forgiving Remembering, Museum Arnhem, Netherlands; Kunsthall 3,14, Bergen, Norway The Space Between Us II, ICONLUXE, Bangkok, Thailand

2020 Living Giving Remembering, Museum Arnhem, Arnhem, Netherlands Who is Gazing? Musée du Quai Branly, Jacques Chirac, Paris, France Escape Routes, The Bangkok Art Biennale, Bangkok, Thailand Art for All, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at PSU, Portland, OR

2019 Rothko in Lampedusa, Palazzo Querini, Venice, Italy Dreaming Together: New York Historical and the Asia Society, New York, NY Framing Time, DENK Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Tradition Interrupted, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA

2018 Viet Stories: Recollections & Regenerations, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, Yorba Linda, CA Imagined Borders, Gwangju Biennale 2018, Gwangju, South Korea

2017 After Darkness Comes the Light: Art in the Wake of History, Asia Society Museum, New York, NY The Picture Will Still Exist, Dia Projects, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Mekong – New Mythologies, The Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong, China Sunshower: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia 1980s to Now, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Asian Diva: The Muse and the Monster, SeMA, Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea The Family Camera, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada Rosa’s Wound, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan Imaginary Asia, Nam June Paik Art Center, Seoul, South Korea

2016 Crafting the Future, curated by Daniel Peabody, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR Refugees, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, New South Wales, Australia Woven, curated by John David O’Brien, Sturt Haaga Gallery, Descanso Gardens, La Canada Flintridge, CA Salon, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Refugees, Casula Powerhouse Arts Center, New South Wales, Australia When Things Fall Apart – Critical Voices on the Radars, Traphoit Museum, Kolding, Denmark Woven, Sturt Haaga gallery, Descanso Gardens, La Canada Flintridge, CA

2015 Constructed Histories, David B. Smith Gallery, Denver, CO Revolution & Resistance: Responses in Contemporary Print, Technology and Community Activism, Gund Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH CHANNELS: Media, Culture, and Representation, Articulture Biennial Exhibition, The Gallery at Delaware Count Community College, Media, PA

2014 Transformational Imagemaking: Handmade Photography Since 1960, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY Post Traditions/New Voices in Asian Art, Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY Afterimage: Contemporary Photography in Southeast Asia, The Singapore Art Museum, Singapore The Sensory War 1914-2014, Whitworth Art Gallery at the University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom Immaterial Frontiers, National Visual Arts Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

2013 War is for the Living, The Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Art Gallery, New York, NY 2013 Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA

2012 Power of Doubt, Times Museum, Guangzhou Guangdong, China Six Lines of Flight: Shifting Geographies in Contemporary Art, SF MOMA San Francisco CA WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Photographs of Armed Conflict and its Aftermath, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles, CA; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY SVA Alumni Show, New York, NY dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany

2011 6th Curitiba Biennial, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil Air Hole, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan Art in the Auditorium: Elodie Pong, Ergin Cavusoglu, Dinh Q Le, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK The Power of Doubt, Museo Colecciones ICO, Madrid, Spain

2010 Busan Biennale: Living in Evolution, Busan, South Korea Nanjing Biennale, Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum, Nanjing City, China Syntax & Diction: Transforming the Everyday, San Art, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam The Tropics: Views from The Middle of The Globe, Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok, Thailand Art Scene Vietnam, ifa Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany Bodies on the Line Colloquium, New York University, New York, NY The Creative Time Summit: Revolutions in Public, Practice 2, Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY AAI’s Art (Inter)Actions Series, Cuchifritos Gallery, New York, NY Asian and Asian-American Art from the Permanent Collection, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY Ruptures and Continuities: Photography Made After 1960 from the MFAH Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

2009 Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Fukuoka, Japan World Selection of Contemporary Art, Biennale Cuveé 09, Linz, Austria NAM BANG!, Casula Powerhouse, Casula, Australia 55th International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany All that is Solid, City Vision Festival, Mechelen, Belgium

2008 Cut: Makings of Removal, Vincent Price Art Museum, CA Wonder, Singapore Biennale 2008, Singapore The Tropics, Martin Groupius Bau, Berlin, Germany Re- Imagining Asia, House of the World Culture, Berlin, Germany Stretching the Truth, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI The Lining of Forgetting, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC

2007 TransPop, Arko Art Center, Seoul, Korea; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA Red Hot: Asian Art Today from the Chaney Family Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX The Thermocline of Art- New Asian Waves, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany

2006 Altered, Stitched, and Gathered, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY Liberation, Saigon Open City, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Another Asia, Noorderlicht Photo Festival, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Gwangju Biennale, Jungoei Park, Gwangju City, South Korea Singapore Biennale 2006, Singapore Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland, Australia Infinite Painting- Contemporary Painting and Global Realism, curated by Francesco Bonami and Sarah Cosulich Canarutto, Villa Manin Centre for Contemporary Art, Codroipo, Italy

2005 Image War: Contesting Images of Political Conflict, Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program Exhibition, The Art Gallery of The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, New York, NY Permanent Vestiges: Drawings from the American-Vietnam War, Drawing Center, New York, NY Stages of Memory: The Vietnam War, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL Collection Remixed, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist’s Eye, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

2004 21, P·P·O·W, New York, NY YOUgenics, The School of Art Institute of Chicago, IL Off the Wall, Bruce Museum, CT

2003 Red, Yellow and Blue, The Goethe Institute, Hanoi, Vietnam Dreams and Conflicts: The Dictatorship of the Viewer, Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy Home/land: Artists, Immigration and Identity, Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA Commodification of Buddhism, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY Only Skin Deep, International Center for Photography, New York, NY

2002 Sugar and Cream, Triple Canopy, New York, NY Crisis Response, RISD Museum of Art, Providence, RI Corpus Christi: Photographic Representations of Christ 1855 - 2002, Paris, France and Jerusalem, Israel

2001 Diabolical Beauty, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, CA The Red Lotus: A Rare Look into the Work of Seven Contemporary Vietnamese-American Artists, City Gallery Chastain, Atlanta, GA We Are Named, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY Alterations, James Graham & Sons, New York, NY Made in California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Indochina: The Art of War, Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA

2000 Beyond Boundaries: Contemporary Photography in California, California University Art Museum, Long Beach, CA Shifting Perceptions: Contemporary LA Visions, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA Of the Moment: Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA California Invitational, Ansel Adams Center for Photography, San Francisco, CA You Can’t Go Home Again: The Art of Exile, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA ID/Y2K: Identity at the Millennium, curated by Susan M. Canning Castle Gallery, New Rochelle, NY The Changing Face of Portraiture, Chapman University, Orange, CA

1999 Pattern, James Graham & Sons, New York, NY Slow Release: The Rich Mix Exhibition, Bishopsgate, Goodyard, London, England The Emerging Image: Selected Contemporary Photography, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA You Can’t Go Home Again: The Art of Exile, curated by Amy I. Schlegel, Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, VT

1998 Bioethics: Thresholds of Corporal Completeness, Side Street Projects, Santa Monica, CA Histories (Re)membered, PaineWeber Art Gallery, New York, NY Fabrications: U.S. Photography, Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, Oregon; Vrais Reves Gallery, Contemporary Photography, Lyons, France; L’Hotel Du Musee, Arles, France; La Galerie 36, Paris, France; L’Espace Pereisc, Toulon, France; Musee de L’Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland; Musee de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium Uncommon Traits III, Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Art, Buffalo, NY

1997 Points of Entry, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY; Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA; Eastman International Museum of Photography, Rochester, NY; The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

1996 Chambers of Enchantment, Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Art CEPA, Buffalo, NY A Labor of Love, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY The Present (H)Our: Artists Utilizing Issues of Identity, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA Pushing Image Paradigms: Conceptual Maneuvers in Recent Photography, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR

1995 Picturing Asia America: Communities, Culture, Difference, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA; Hunt Gallery, Webster University, St. Louis, MO Welcome to Asia America: Visualizing A New World, Cambridge Multicultural Art Center, MA Tracing Cultures, The Friends of Photography, Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco, CA; Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA; Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ Identity Crisis, Cambridge Multicultural Art Center, MA