Vietnam: Destination for the New Millennium The Art of Dinh Q. Lê

September 13, 2005–January 15, 2006

Dinh Q. Lê was born in 1968 in Ha Tien, a small town near the Cambodian border, in what was South Vietnam. When he was ten years old, he and his family escaped to Thailand, where they spent nearly one year before immigrating to Los Angeles. He began his art education at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1989 and continued his studies at the School of Visual Arts in New York where he received a Master of Fine Arts degree. In the early 1990s, Lê visited Vietnam and by the middle of the decade was spending most of his time in Ho Chi Minh City, where he currently lives. Further reading: Lê, Dinh Q. Vietnam: Destination for the New Millennium—The Art of Dinh Q. Lê. New York: Asia Society, 2005. A fully illustrated 48-page volume features the work in the exhibition, including the new installation, From Doi Moi to the Sky, commissioned by the Asia Society. Essays by the exhibition curator and a scholar of Vietnamese culture offer contexts for the work, along with an interview with the artist and excerpts from Vietnamese and Vietnamese American literature. Also included are a checklist of the exhibition, and artist biography and bibliography. Miles, Christopher, and Moira Roth. From Vietnam to Hollywood: Dinh Q. Lê. Seattle: Marquand Books, 2003. Pham, Andrew X. Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999. Du, Nguyen. The Tale of Kieu. Translated by Huynh Sanh Thong. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973.