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An-My Lê

An-My Lê lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Lê received her BA from Stanford University and a Master of Fine Arts from the Yale University School of Art. She is the Charles Franklin Kellogg and Grace E. Ramsey Kellogg Professor in the Arts at Bard College, New York, where she has taught since 1999. In addition to her survey exhibition, On Contested Terrain, traveling in the US, she has had solo exhibitions at the MK Gallery, Milton Keynes (England) and Museum aan de Stoom (Belgium) in 2014; Baltimore Museum of Art in 2013; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art / SFMOMA in 2008; Dia:Beacon in 2006-07; and MoMA PS1 Contemporary Arts Center in 2002.

As a teenager Lê fled Vietnam with her family in 1975. They eventually settled in the US as refugees. Her work often addresses the impact of war on culture and on the environment. Lê says her “main goal is to try to photograph landscape in such a way that it suggests a universal history, a personal history, a history of culture.”

Lê is the recipient of numerous awards and grants: in 2012 she was awarded the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship; in 2010, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award; in 2007, the National Science Foundation, Antarctic Artists and Writers Program Award; in 2004 the John Gutmann Photography Fellowship; and in 1997 the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship.

The exhibition, đô-mi-nô, runs from 24 June – 20 August 2021 at Marian Goodman Gallery New York (24 W 57 Street, New York, NY 10019). For further information, please contact the gallery at (212) 977-7160.

An-My Lê Untitled, Ba Vi, Viêt Nam, 1998 Silver gelatin print Image: 16 x 23 in. (40.6 x 58.4 cm) Frame: 21 1/8 x 27 3/4 in. (53.7 x 70.5 cm) Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery
Installation view An-My Lê ,“đô-mi-nô,” Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, 2021 Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery Photo credit: Alex Yudzon
Installation view An-My Lê ,“đô-mi-nô,” Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, 2021 Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery Photo credit: Alex Yudzon
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  1. […] An-My Lê spoke to us in early July. She had just opened đô-mi-nô at Marian Goodman Gallery, which runs until August 20, 2021. Her older series, 29 Palms, is a series of photos of U.S. Marines training in the California high desert in preparation at the start of the war with Iraq in 2002. A self-described landscape photographer, An-My Lê says that the landscape itself is as important in the photos as the subjects therein. Through her photography, she engages with notions of the past, present and future. To do this she describes as much detail as possible in her prints using a large-format camera and 5×7″ negatives. To hear more about her process and work, including her current show at Marian Goodman, listen to the complete interview. […]

  2. […] An-My Lê spoke to us in early July. She had just opened đô-mi-nô at Marian Goodman Gallery, which runs until August 20, 2021. Her older series, 29 Palms, is a series of photos of U.S. Marines training in the California high desert in preparation at the start of the war with Iraq in 2002. A self-described landscape photographer, An-My Lê says that the landscape itself is as important in the photos as the subjects therein. Through her photography, she engages with notions of the past, present and future. To do this she describes as much detail as possible in her prints using a large-format camera and 5×7″ negatives. To hear more about her process and work, including her current show at Marian Goodman, listen to the complete interview. […]

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