BIOGRAPHY

Born in Saigon, Vietnam

Associate Professor, Photography, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

EDUCATION

1993 MFA Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT

1985 MS Stanford University, Stanford, CA 

1981 BAS Stanford University, Stanford, CA 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008 Events Ashore, Murray Guy, New York, NY 

2006 Trap Rock, Dia: Beacon, Beacon, NY 

Small Wars: Photographs by An-My Lê, Marion Center, Santa Fe, NM; RISD Museum, Providence, RI; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, traveling to National Media Museum, Bradford, UK; Fotogallery, Cardiff, Wales, UK; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA(2007); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (2008), Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID (2009)

2004 29 Palms, Murray Guy, New York

2002 Small Wars, PS1/MOMA Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2009 Into the Sunset: Photography's image of the American West, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

2008 The Printed Picture, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

On the Subject of War, Barbican Gallery, London

The Green Room: Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art, CCS Hessel Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York

               That Was Then...This Is Now, PS1, New York, NY

               Of People and Places, University of Massachusetts Amherst Art Gallery, Amherst, MA

Framing and Being Framed: The Uses of Documentary Photography, Wesleyan University Art Gallery, Middletown, CT

               Topografías, PHotoEspaña, Fundación ICO, Madrid, Spain

Marlon Brando, Pocahontas,and Me, curated by Jeremy Deller, The Aspen Art Museum, Aspen

2006 Dirty Yoga: 2006 Taipei Biennial, Taipei, Taiwan

Ecotopia: The Second ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, International Center of Photography, New York NY, cat.

New Landscape, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Image War: Contesting Images of Political Conflict, CUNY Graduate Center Gallery, New York, NY

2005 The Pentagruel Syndrome, T1 Torinotriennale Tremusei, Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino and the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo. Turin, Italy

The Forest: Politics, Poetics and Practice, curated by Kathy Goncharov, The Nasher Museum at Duke University, Durham, NC 

Stages of Memory: The War in Vietnam, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago. IL

Set Up: Recent Acquisitions in Photography, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

2004 Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self, International Center of Photography, New York, NY: Seattle Art Museum; San Diego Museum of Art (2005)

2001 Photographs from the Permanent Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NewYork 

1997 New Photography 13, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

AWARDS-GRANTS

2006 Anonymous Was a Woman award

2004 John Gutmann Photography Fellowship

1997 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship

1996 New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in photography 

1993 Blair Dickinson Memorial Award, Yale University School of Art

COLLECTIONS

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. NY, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France, Sackler Gallery (The Smithsonian), Washington D.C., Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, Herbert Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca NY, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, IL, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN, The RISD Museum, Providence, RI

Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2009      

Respini, Eva, Into the Sunset, Photography's Image of the American West, the Museum of Modern Art, New York,  p.20, p.79

2008               

Masters HG, An-My Lê": "Events Ashore", Art Asia Pacific, NO.59 July/August, 2008, p.162

Bart, Nadine, (ed.) Verschwindende Landschaften, DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne, 2008

Gopnik, Blake, "An-My Lê", Artforum.com, May, 2008

Churner, Rachel, "An-My Lê - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art", Artforum, April 2008, p.377

2007          

Irvine, Karen, "An-My Lê", Photo Art - Fotografie im 21. Jahrhundert, DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne, 2007, pp.246-249

2006          

Godfrey, Mark, "An-My Lê", Vitamin PH - New Perspectives in Photography, Phaidon, London, 2006, pp.154-157

"An-My Lê", Ecotopia - the 2nd ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, ICP/Steidel, New York/Göttingen, 2006, pp. 154-159

Gregory, Stamatina, "The Presence of Absence: Art and Media Critique", Image War: Contesting Images of Political Conflict, exhibition catalogue, Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Sudies Program

2005    

Heffley, Lynne, "Vietnam, Virginia, California", Los Angeles Times, September 25, 2005

Woodward, Richard B., "Essay", Small Wars: An-My Lê, pp.108-117, aperture foundation, New York  

Als, Hilton, "Interview", Small Wars: An-My Lê, pp.108-117, Aperture Foundation, New York

2004    

Moylan, Chris. "An-My Lê: 29 Palms", Art AsiaPacific, No.43, Winter 2005 

Vanderbilt, Tom, "An-My Lê, '29 Palms'", Artforum, December 2004, p.170

"Small Wars", Blind Spot, Issue 28, 

Rosenberg, Karen, An-My Lê - Murray Guy", Artforum, November 2004, p.225-226

Terranova, Charissa, "Manhattanism", Dallas Observer, October 28, 2004

Kerr, Merrily, "An-My Lê, '29 Palms'", Time Out New York, Issue No. 472, October 14-21, 2004, p.80

Aletti, Vince, "An-My Lê", The Village Voice, October 6-12, 2004, p.151

The New Yorker, October 4, 2004, p.21

Gopnik, Blake, "For Art Lovers, A Chelsea Morning", The Washington Post, September 26, 2004 p.N01

Cotter, Holland, "An-My Lê", The New York Times, September 24, 2004, p.E33 

2002      

 Aletti, Vince., "Voice Choices-Photo     ", The Village Voice, Aug 28-Sep 3, 2002, p.67.

"Art museums & galleries", San Jose Mercury News, June 16, 2002, p.8E (illus.).

2001      

 Lê, An-My, "Small Wars", Cabinet, Spring 2001

 "Small Wars", Trace #1, AIGA Journal , January 2001

2000      

"Vietnam", DoubleTake Magazine Spring 2000 

1999                

Whiting, Sam, "Datebook: Impressions of Postwar Vietnam-photographs by Vietnamese American An-My Le", San Francisco Chronicle,  May 10, 1999, p.E1, p.E5. 

Daniel, Mike, "Vietnam War revisited", Dallas Morning News, October 22, 1999

Scott, Whitney, "Must museum", New York Post, January 10, 1999, p.27 (illus.).

Harper's, July 1999, p.37 (illus.).

1998                

Maning, Dee, "Central's FAC host to 'Re-imaging Vietnam'", The Egalitarian, April 8, 1998, p.13.

"Goings On About Town", The New Yorker, January 12, 1998, p18 (illus.).

1997                

Cotter, Holland, "Art In Review: 'New Photography 13'", The New York Times November 7, p.E37.

"Critic's Picks", Time Out New York,  October 23-30, 1997.