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An-My Lê (born 1960) is a Vietnamese American photographer, visual artist, filmmaker, and professor at Bard College.
She is a 2012 MacArthur Foundation Fellow and has received the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (1997), the National Science Foundation Antarctic Artists and Writers Program Award (2007), and the Tiffany Comfort Foundation Fellowship (2010). Her work was included in the 2017 Whitney Biennial.
An-My Lê was born in Saigon, Vietnam, in 1960. She left Vietnam in 1975.She studied biology at Stanford University, receiving her BA in 1981 and her MA in 1985. She attended Yale School of Art, receiving her MFA in 1993.
Her book Small Wars was published in 2005. 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.
In 2023, she had a large-scale solo exhibition at MoMA titled 'Between Two Rivers/Giữa hai giòng sông/Entre deux rivières'.
An-My Lê (born 1960) is a Vietnamese American photographer, visual artist, filmmaker, and professor at Bard College.
She is a 2012 MacArthur Foundation Fellow and has received the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (1997), the National Science Foundation Antarctic Artists and Writers Program Award (2007), and the Tiffany Comfort Foundation Fellowship (2010). Her work was included in the 2017 Whitney Biennial.
An-My Lê was born in Saigon, Vietnam, in 1960. She left Vietnam in 1975.She studied biology at Stanford University, receiving her BA in 1981 and her MA in 1985. She attended Yale School of Art, receiving her MFA in 1993.
Her book Small Wars was published in 2005. 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.
In 2023, she had a large-scale solo exhibition at MoMA titled 'Between Two Rivers/Giữa hai giòng sông/Entre deux rivières'.
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