An-My Lê

An-My Lê (born 1960 in Saigon, South Vietnam) is a Vietnamese American photographer, and professor at Bard College.[1]

An-My Lê
Born1960 (age 59–60)
Saigon
NationalityAmerican
OccupationProfessor
Known forPhotography
AwardsMacArthur Fellowship John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

She is a 2012 MacArthur Foundation Fellow and has received 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 exhibited in 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. Her work was featured in the 2017 Whitney Biennial[3]

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.[4] 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.[5]

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.[6]

Awards and grants
  • 1993 Blair Dickinson Memorial Award, Yale University School of Art[7]
  • 1995 CameraWorks Inc. fellowship[7]
  • 1996 New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in photography[8]
  • 1997 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship[8]
  • 2004 John Gutmann Photography Fellowship[7]
  • 2007 National Science Foundation, Antarctic Artists and Writers Program Award[9]
  • 2010 Tiffany Comfort Foundation[10]
  • 2012 John D. and Catherina T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship[7]

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

Works
  • Viêt Nam (1994–98)
  • Small Wars (1999–2002) – An album of photos she took between 1999 and 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)

Solo exhibitions
  • 2002: Small Wars, PS1/MOMA Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
  • 2004: 29 Palms, Murray Guy, New York
  • 2006: 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)
  • 2006: Trap Rock, Dia: Beacon, Beacon, NY
  • 2008: The Photographs of An-My Lê, University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, KY
  • 2008: Events Ashore, Murray Guy, New York, NY
  • 2010: Murray Guy, New York, NY
  • 2013: Baltimore Museum of Art
  • 2014: MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK (curated by Kate Bush), traveling to Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg, Sweden Museum aan de Stroom, Antwerp, Belgium
  • 2015: Charles Scott Gallery, Emily Carr University of Art +Design, Vancouver, Canada
  • 2017: 29 Palms, Sheldon Art Museum, Lincoln, Nebraska
  • 2017: An-My Lê, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France

References
  1. "Bard College | Faculty". Bard.edu. October 30, 2013. Retrieved November 6, 2013.
  2. "An-My Lê — MacArthur Foundation". macfound.org. Retrieved March 11, 2017.
  3. "Whitney Biennial 2017 | Whitney Museum of American Art". whitney.org. Retrieved March 31, 2017.
  4. "Small Wars". Aperture.org. Retrieved July 26, 2017.
  5. "ART21 – PBS Programs – PBS". ART21 – PBS Programs – PBS. Retrieved July 26, 2017.
  6. "Events Ashore". Aperture.org. Retrieved July 26, 2017.
  7. "An-My Lê". anmyle.com. Retrieved March 16, 2019.
  8. "An-My Lê". Retrieved March 16, 2019.
  9. "AN-My Lê: The landscape of Conflict". stories.daylight.co. Retrieved March 16, 2019.
  10. "Murray Guy " AN-MY Le, 2010". Retrieved March 16, 2019.
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