An-My Lê

An-My Lê
Born 1960 (age 57–58)
Saigon
Nationality American
Occupation Professor
Known for Photography
Awards MacArthur Fellowship John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

An-My Lê (born 1960 in Saigon, South Vietnam) is a Vietnamese American photographer, and professor at Bard College.[1] She is a 2012 MacArthur Foundation Fellow and has received numerous other awards including the Tiffany Comfort Foundation Fellowship (2010), the National Science Foundation Antarctic Artists and Writers Program Award (2007) and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (1997).[2] Her work has been widely exhibited, with solo shows at the Baltimore Museum of Art; Museum aan de Stroom, Antwerp, Belgium; MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK; Dia, Beacon, New York; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; and MoMA PS1, New York. Lê is represented by Murray Guy Gallery in New York.[3] Her work is featured in the 2017 Whitney Biennial[4]

Life and education

An-My Lê was born in Saigon, Vietnam, in 1960. Lê fled Vietnam with her family as a teenager in 1975, the final year of the war, eventually settling in the United States as a political refugee. She received her BAS and MS degrees in biology from Stanford University in 1981 and 1985. She had also received an MFA from Yale School of Art in 1993.

An-My Lê's photographs and films examine the impact, consequences, and representation of war. Whether in color or black-and-white, her pictures frame a tension between the natural landscape and its violent transformation into battlefields. Projects include "Viêt Nam" (1994–98), in which Lê’s memories of a war-torn countryside are reconciled with the contemporary landscape; "Small Wars" (1999–2002), in which Lê photographed and participated in Vietnam War reenactments in Virginia and North Carolina; and "29 Palms" (2003–04), in which United States Marines preparing for deployment play-act scenarios in a virtual Middle East in the California desert. These three projects were brought together in a monograph titled "Small Wars," published by Aperture.[5] Suspended between the formal traditions of documentary and staged photography, Lê’s work explores the disjunction between wars as historical events and the ubiquitous representation of war in contemporary entertainment, politics, and collective consciousness.[6]

In November 2014, her second book, Events Ashore, was published by Aperture. Events Ashore depicts a 9-year exploration of the US Navy working throughout the world. The project began when the artist was invited to photograph US naval ships preparing for deployment to Iraq, the first in a series of visits to battleships, humanitarian missions in Africa and Asia, training exercises, and scientific missions in the Arctic and Antarctic.[7]

Awards, Grants

2012 John D. and Catherina T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship
2010 Tiffany Comfort Foundation
2007 National Science Foundation, Antarctic Artists and Writers Program Award
2004 John Gutmann Photography Fellowship
1997 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship
1996 New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in photography
1995 CameraWorks Inc. fellowship
1993 Blair Dickinson Memorial Award, Yale University School of Art

Books and Monographs

2014 Events Ashore. New York: Aperture, 2014. Essay by Geoff Dyer.
2005 Small Wars. New York: Aperture, 2005. Essay by Richard B. Woodward. Interview by Hilton Als.

Works

  • Viêt Nam (1994–98)
  • Small Wars (1999–2002) - An album of photos she took between 1999-2002 during a reenactment of the Vietnam War. The photos were primarily taken in black and white and portray different scenes that portray battles from the Vietnam War.
  • 29 Palms (2003–04)
  • Trap Rock (2006)

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

2017 An-My Lê, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France

29 Palms, Sheldon Art Museum, Lincoln, Nebraska

2015 Charles Scott Gallery, Emily Carr University of Art +Design, Vancouver, Canada
2014 MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK (curated by Kate Bush), traveling to Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg, Sweden Museum aan de Stroom, Antwerp, Belgium
2013 Baltimore Museum of Art
2010 Murray Guy, New York, NY
2008 Events Ashore, Murray Guy, New York, NY

The Photographs of An-My Lê, University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, KY

2006 Trap Rock, Dia: Beacon, Beacon, NY

Small Wars: Photographs by An-My Lê, Marion Center, Santa Fe, NM; RISD Museum, Providence, RI; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, traveling to National Media Museum, Bradford, UK; Ffotogallery, Cardiff, Wales, UK; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA (2007); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID (2008)

2004 29 Palms, Murray Guy, New York
2002 Small Wars, PS1/MOMA Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY

Group Exhibitions

2017 Before the Event/After the Fact:Contemporary Perspectives on War, curated by Judy Ditner, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

Re:Collection, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois Something Fierce, curated by Christie Davis, The Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, New Mexic Whitney Biennial, curated by Chris Lew and Mia Locks, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

2016 Poetics of Place, curated by Doug Eklund, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Shape of Things: Photographs from Robert B. Menschel, the Museum of Modern Art, New York Security Theater, Karl Burke, Harun Farocki, An-My Lê and the Bureau of Inverse Technology (curated by Justin Barski), Or Gallery, Vancouver, Canada The Ocean After Nature (curated by Alaina Claire Feldman), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA Unsuspending Disbelief, Logan Center, University of Chicago, IL New Genealogies, Green Gallery, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT MoCP at 40, Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, Chicago, IL

2015 Staging Disorder, University of the Arts, London

Time of Others, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

2014 Taipei Biennial: The Great Acceleration (curated by Nicolas Bourriaud), Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei

Fractured Narratives: A Strategy to Engage, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL Conflict, Time, Photography, Tate Modern, London; traveling to Museum Fokwang, Essen; Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (2015) La guerra che verrà non è la prima (The war which is coming is not the first one), MART, Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto Trento, Italy Ri-Conoscere Michelangelo: la scultura del Buonarroti nella fotografia e nella pittura dall’ottocento a oggi, Galleria dell’ Accademia, Florence Footnotes, CSS Bard Hessel Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

2013 An Eye for an Eye, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, NY
Contemporary Vietnamerican Art, Maier Museum at Randolph College, Lynchburg, VA
2012 War / Photography: Photographs of Armed Conflict and its Aftermath, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; travelling to The Brooklyn Museum, New York; The Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles; and The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Poetic Politic, Kadist Foundation, San Francisco, CA
Prix Pictet, Saatchi Gallery, London; traveling to Hungarian House of Photography, Budapest, Hungary (2013); Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul; Dublin Gallery of Photography, Dublin; Beirut Exhibition Center, Beirut; Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Thessaloniki; Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA (2014)
Newtopia: The State of Human Rights, Mechelen, Belgium
Provisional Aesthetic, Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
More Real? Art in the Age of Truthiness, Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Minneapolis, MN; travelling to Site Sante Fe, Sante Fe, NM
Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Gallery of Modern Art and Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
2011 Prospect 2 New Orleans, New Orleans, LA

After the Gold Rush, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Photography After Color : Roger Ballen, An-My Lê, Matthew Pillsbury, Pennsylvania College of Art & Design, Philadelphia Role Models - Role Playing, Museum der moderne, Salzburg, Austria New Topography of War, Le Bal, Paris, France

2010 The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY In the Vernacular, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

2009 America, Beirut Art Center, Beirut, Lebanon

Manmade: Notions of Landscape from the Lannan Collection, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM Images Recalled - Bilder auf Aufruf:, 3. Fotofestival Mannheim Ludwigshafen Heidelberg, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Germany Into the Sunset: Photography’s Image of the American West, The Museum of Modern Art, New York Vague Terrain: Analogues of Place in Contemporary Photography, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY Lives of the Hudson, Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York

2008 Soft Manipulation, or Who is Afraid of the New Now?, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg; Stiftelson 3,14, Bergen, Norway

Zones of Conflict, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY On the Subject of War, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK The Printed Picture, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY The Greenroom, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY Portraits: Of People and Places, Gallery of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA Framing and Being Framed: The Uses of Documentary Photography, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT

That was then and this is now, PS1 Contemporary Arts, Center, Long Island City, NY Lugares comprometidos. topografia y actualidad/compromised places.topography and actuality, PhotoEspana, Fundacion ICO, Madrid, Spain Asi se escribe la historia/This is how history is written, Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain Marlon Brando, Pocahontas,and Me, curated by Jeremy Deller, The Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO Intimacies of Distant War, Dorsky Gallery, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY

2007 transPOP: Korea Vietnam Remix, ARKO Art Center, Seoul, South Korea, traveling to: University Art Gallery at UC Irvine, Irvine CA; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA (2008) To the Point: A New Reality: Black and White Photography in Contemporary Art, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, cat.
2006 Witness to War: Revisiting Vietnam in Contemporary Art, San Francisco State University Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Changing Identity: Recent Works by Women Artists from Vietnam, Kennesaw State University Art Galleries, Kennesaw, GA; traveling to: Trammell & Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art, Dallas, TX; Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA; Stedman Art Gallery, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ; 2008: Depree Gallery, Hope College, Holland, MI; Clara M. Eagle Gallery, Murray State University, Murray, KY; Center for Visual Arts, Metropolitan State College of Denver, Denver, CO; Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Gallery, College of Holy Cross, Worcester, MA; Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT; 2009 Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN Dirty Yoga: 2006 Taipei Biennial, Taipei, Taiwan Ecotopia: The Second ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, International Center of Photography, New York NY Hereford Photography Festival, Courtyard Gallery and left Bank Gallery, Hereford, UK New Landscape, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Image War: Contesting Images of Political Conflict, CUNY Graduate Center Gallery, New York, NY Beautiful Suffering: Photography and the Traffic in Pain, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, CT

2005 The Pentagruel Syndrome, T1 Torinotriennale Tremusei, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino and the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy

The Forest: Politics, Poetics and Practice, curated by Kathy Goncharov, The Nasher Museum at Duke University, Durham, NC Stages of Memory: The War in Vietnam, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago. IL Set Up: Recent Acquisitions in Photography, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY The Art of Aggression, curated by Robert Hobbs and Jean Crutchfield, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA; The Moore Space, Miami, FL

2004 The Freedom Salon, Deitch Projects, New York

Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self, International Center of Photography, New York, NY, traveling to Seattle Art Museum; San Diego Museum of Art

2002 Fiona Banner, An-My Lê, Ann Lislegaard, Murray Guy, New York, NY

Road Trip, Murray Guy, New York, NY Gravity Over Time, Milleventi gallery, Milan, Italy

2001 Photographs from the Permanent Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
2000 Documents, Perceptions, and Perspectives, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI

Reconsidering Vietnam, St Lawrence University, Brush Gallery, CantonAn-My Lê

1999 Things They Carry, University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton, An-My LêTX
1998 Re-imagining Vietnam, Fotofest, Houston, TX
1997 Selections from the Permanent Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

New Photography 13, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Picturing Communities, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX

1996 New Histories, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA Spot Gallery, New York, NY
1994-96 Picturing Asia America: Communities, Culture, Difference, Houston Center for Photography;

traveled to Hunt Gallery of Webster University, St. Louis, MO and Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA

1994 Building, Dwelling, Thinking, Lowinski Gallery, New York, NY
1993 Contemporary American Photography, Canton Cultural Center, China

References

  1. ↑ "Bard College | Faculty". Bard.edu. 2013-10-30. Retrieved 2013-11-06.
  2. ↑ "An-My Lê — MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
  3. ↑ "An-My Lê Photography". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
  4. ↑ "Whitney Biennial 2017 | Whitney Museum of American Art". whitney.org. Retrieved 2017-03-31.
  5. ↑ "Small Wars". Aperture.org. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
  6. ↑ "ART21 - PBS Programs - PBS". ART21 - PBS Programs - PBS. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
  7. ↑ "Events Ashore". Aperture.org. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
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