Việt Lê

Việt Lê is an artist, creative writer, curator and Associate Professor in Visual Studies at California College of the Arts. whose work focuses on trauma, spiritualities, healing, representation, sexuality and popular culture with a focus on Southeast Asia and its diasporas. Dr. Lê is the author of Return Engagements: Contemporary Art’s Traumas of Modernity and History in Sài Gòn and Phnom Penh (Duke University Press, 2021). The art book White Gaze is a collaboration with Latipa, 2021 CCSRE Mellon Arts Fellow (Candor Arts + Memory and Resistance Laboratory + Sming Sming Books, 2nd Edition, 2019).

Lê has presented their work throughout the world including at The Banff Centre, Bangkok Art & Cultural Center, Shanghai Biennale, Rio Gay Film Festival, the Smithsonian, among other venues. Lê curated  Charlie Don’t Surf! (Centre A, Vancouver, BC, 2005); and co-curated humor us (with Leta Ming and Yong Soon Min, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, CA, 2008), among others.