Curriculum Vitae | Creative VIỆT LĘ
Education
Ph.D. (Expected June 2011) American
Studies and Ethnicity Department
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
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
2009
Sovereign Art Prize finalist exhibition
TBA, Hong Kong
The Pandemic Show
Overtones Gallery, Los
Angeles, CA Nov. 14- Dec. 19,
2009
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
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
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
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.
Publications (Creative)
Lę, Việt. 2010.
“Secondhand Emotion (Lost),” and “Samsara.” (poems), Courting Risk Poetry Anthology. Khadijah Queen, editor. Forthcoming.
Lę, Việt. 2010. “Hot
Dogs for Dinner,” “Strawberries for Sale,” “Haunting” (short story and poems). Writing Vietnam (working title).
Catherine Cole, editor. Sydney: University of Western Australia Press, 2010.
forthcoming
Pelaud, Isabelle Thuy. self-portrait series featured. Identity, Society
and Survival: Introduction to Vietnamese American Literature. Temple
University Press, 2009. Forthcoming.
Lę, Việt. 2009. “A-1
Food Market,” “Haunting” (poems). Crab
Orchard Review, “Color Wheel” issue, Volume 14, Number 2, Summer/Fall
2009. Carbondale: University of
Illinois, 2009.
Lę, Việt. 2008.
“Fairytale,” Fire on the 405,” “succeed or quit” (poems and artwork). CONSEQUENCE journal. George Kovach, ed. Boston: William Joiner
Center. Forthcoming.
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. still
photographic series featured. BN Magazine, November 2007 issue.
Lę, Việt. 2007.
“Leaving Los Angeles” (personal essay).
Love, West Hollywood. Chris Freeman and James J. Berg, eds. New York:
Alyson Books, 2007..
Lę, Việt. 2006.
“Asphalt Cocktail” (poem). Blue Arc West: An Anthology of California Poets. Huntington Tebot Bach, 2007.
Lę, Việt. 2005. “Paper
Whites (Narcissus).” Poem and images from the pictures of you photographic
series. Corpus. Los Angeles and New York: AIDS Project, 2005.
Le Viet and Ayesha York.
2005. “shadows and light.” West Coast Line 38/3, Winter 2004-05.
Vancouver, BC.
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.
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.
Fellowships/ Grants
2009 Citivella Ranieri Art Residency Fellow,
Umbria, Italy
2008 Fulbright-Hays International Research Fellow
2007 Association for Asian Studies Art and
Politics Fellow, Boston, MA
2006 Rockefeller Fellow, William Joiner Center for
the Study of War and Social
Consequences, Boston, 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
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
Curatorial
humor us September 14-Dec. 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. humorus.net
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: Đỉnh Q.
Lę, Ann Phong, Nguyễn Tân Hoŕng, Trân T. Kim-Tráng
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
Presentations
Lectures/ Readings/ Workshops:
“Transnationalisms,
Translation and Transgression.” Invited Talk, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles,
CA, March 14, 2009.
“Courting Risk.” Invited
Workshop and Reading, Macaulay Honors College, City University of New York,
November 13, 2008.
“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.
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 September 26, 2003
Cohosted by PEN Center Orange County and UCI Center
for Writing and Translation
Reflections of Wars May 7, 2003
California State University, Northridge
Tebot Bach Anthology of California Poets April
17, 2003
reading and book launch party, Golden West College,
Huntington Beach, CA
Rage (a play by Việt Lę) March 17, 2003
staged reading at East West Players, Los Angeles
War and Other Matters
January 31, 2003
featured reader for Track 16 Nights (part of a series)
at Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica
Sense of Site November 13, 2002
group poetry reading of poets selected for the Sense
of Site project
Skylight Books, Los Angeles
Hot Summer Nights August
31, 2002
an evening of poetry, experimental music and film,
hosted by the L.A. Cultural Affairs Dept.
Hisaki Theater, Japanese American National Museum
Emerging Voices Reading July 31, 2002
an evening of readings by the seven 2002 PEN Emerging
Voices Fellows
Mark Taper Auditorium, Los Angeles
InspirationHouse: Voice Music for Whole Living KPFK
90.7 FM June 10, 2002
featured reader, host Peter Harris
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, Etc... Stage April
28, 2002
featured reader
Employment
University of Southern California: Teaching Assistant fall
‘06, sp‘07, sp ‘08-continuing
Teaching undergraduate
discussion sections for an undergraduate general education courses in Sociology
and American Studies.
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
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