EDUCATION
2012 MFA Photography, California State University, Long Beach, CA
2008 BFA Photography, California State University, Fullerton, CA

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
ArtCenter College of Design, Fall 2022
Lecturer Photography (Phot241: Culture: Identity and Ethnicity)

California State University, Fullerton, CA Spring 2022 - Present
Lecturer Photography (Art338A: Creative Photography – Black &White darkroom)

Long Beach Community College, Long Beach, CA / Fall 2014 – Present
Photography Instructor (Art 80: Elements of Photography; Art 81: Intro to Fine Art Photography – B&W Darkroom; Photo 43: Photoshop + Digital Image Management; Art 291: Advanced Lab)

Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA / Spring 2013 – Present
Senior Lecturer (Art 160: 2D Art; Art 260: Computer Graphics I, Art 382: Digital Photography; Art 350: Visual Language)

San Diego City College, San Diego, CA Fall 2021
Lecturer Photography (Photo 150: History of Photography)

Chapman College, Orange, CA Fall 2021- Present
Photography Instructor (Art 120: Photographic Imaging – B&W Darkroom)

Los Angeles Valley College, Van Nuys, CA Spring 2021
Lecturer (Art 250: Introduction to Digital Art)

Art Institute of California, Los Angeles, CA / Summer 2013 – 2016
Photography Instructor (Photographic Post Production; Adv. Photographic Post Production; Large Format & View Camera Theory; Portraiture; Portfolio I; Digital Image Management; History of Photography; Portfolio I; Applied Portraiture; Editorial Photography)

Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA / F2009 – F2012
Teaching / Studio Assistant for Michael Brodsky (Computer Graphics I; Digital Photography

Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA / F2009 – F2012
Teaching / Studio Assistant for Saeri Cho-Dobson (Computer Graphics I; Experimental Typography; & Professional Practice Graphic Design)

Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA / F2009 – F2012
Teaching / Studio Assistant for Dmitry Kmelnitsky (Computer Graphics I)

Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA / F2009 – F2012
Teaching / Studio Assistant for Diane Meyer (Special Studies Bookmaking & Photography; Photography I; & Photography II)

California State University, Long Beach, CA / Spring 2011
Teaching Internship with Rebecca Sittler-Shrock (Color Photography)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
Weighted with Ghosts, Sunset Spectacular (digital art billboard), Orange Barrel Media, West Hollywood, CA 

2020
Reconstructing Slippages in Time: Between Home and Here, UCSB Multicultural Center, Santa Barbara, CA

2012
Embodiment, MFA Thesis, Dutzi Gallery, California State University, Long Beach, CA
Embody and Echo, DBA 256 Gallery, Pomona, CA

2005
It’s a small world, University of North Carolina, NC
Confession, University of North Carolina, NC

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Forthcoming – Fort Worth Contemporary Arts (Texas Christian University), Texas
Vietnam in Transition: 1976-Present (Warhol Foundation), Wende Museum, Culver City,CA

2022
Mapping The Sublime: Reframing Landscape in the 21st Century, Brand Library & Art Center, Glendale,CA
Traditions, 2nd annual AAPI show, Ewkuks, Los Angeles
Home Edition, Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art, Chaffey College, Chaffey, CA

2020
No one remembers alone, USC Roski School of Art, Los Angeles, CA
We Are Here: Art and Asian Voices in L.A., USC Asia Pacific Museum, Pasadena,CA

2019
Singing in The Dark, A Meditation on Migration, Art Salon Chinatown, Los Angeles,CA

2018
Reframing the Fragments, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon
Complement, Long Beach City College Visual & Media Arts Gallery, Long Beach

2017
Aliens with Extraordinary Abilities, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA Fresh, South Bay Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA

2016
Faculty Exhibition, Long Beach City College Visual & Media Arts Gallery, Long Beach
Honoring our Ancestors, Avenue 50 Studio, Highland Park, CA
South of the Grapevine, Arte Americas, Fresno, CA
Embody, Boston Court Performing Arts Center, (The Golden Dragon), Pasadena,CA
Women in Light, Luxe Gallery, San Diego City College, San Diego,CA
Constructions of Disquiet, Golden West College Gallery, Huntington Beach,CA
SKIN, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2015
Shelved Art, Newtown Arts Project, Pasadena, CA

2014
Facts & Figures, Long Beach City College Visual and Media Arts Gallery
εἶδος: That Which is Seen, Thomas P. Kelly Jr.Gallery,Loyola Marymount University
Crossing Borders, Gallery Gong, Seoul, South Korea
Crossing Borders, Instituto Municipal de Arte y Cultura – IMAC, Tijuana, Mexico
TOHYF, Encino Terrace, Encino, CA

2013
Sacred Memories: Honoring the Dead Across Cultures, Pico House Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Wish You Were Here 12, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Gettin’ Off the Ground, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA
Crossing Borders, SOMArts Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2012
Crossing Borders, Emergent Art Space Juried online Exhibition
B Social, Factory, Downtown Los Angeles, CA
Alter/Altar, King Street Gallery, School of Art + Design at Montgomery College, Silver Springs, MD
Consortium, Avenue 50 Studio, Highland Park, CA
The X-Actobles, Bar Basic, San Diego, CA
Mercy, Not Sacrifice IV, Syrup Loft, Los Angeles, CA
Portraiture, ArtExchange, Long Beach, CA
MFA Advancement, Gatov Gallery, CSU, Long Beach, CA
Ventriloquists, Gatov Gallery West, CSU, Long Beach, CA

2011
MFA Open Studios, California State University, Long Beach, CA
Lived Experience, The Huntington, Los Angeles, CA

2010
Photography & LA, Phantom Galleries, Long Beach, CA
Collaborative, The Mezz, Los Angeles, CA
Third Eye Vision, Bar Basic, San Diego, CA
La Jolla Art & Wine Festival, Emerging Artist recipient, La Jolla, CA
International Mail Art, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
MFA Open Studios, California State University, Long Beach, CA
Object of Friction, Arty LA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Other, Werby Gallery, California State University, Long Beach, CA
Introspect: Urban Art, Onyx Room, San Diego, CA
Life and Dignity, Fernando’s Hideaway, Los Angeles, CA

2008
Family and Fiction, Progressive Gallery, Pomona, CA
Before/After, California State University, Fullerton, CA

2007
Attachment, Art for Health, California State University, Fullerton, CA
Skin Deep, East Gallery, California State University, Fullerton, CA

2006
Cross Process Concepts, Apogee, San Diego, CA

PRINTED MATERIAL
2022 Forthcoming – Cover Art for Nothing Follows by Lan Duong
2021 American Literature Anthology textbook, MacMillan Publishing
         Le Monde diplomatique, Maniere De Voir 180, Le Vietnam, Paris France
2020 AP English Language and Composition, MacMillan Publishing

COLLECTIONS
2021 SoHo House/Soho Works (Terrorscape 1+6), West Hollywood,CA
2019 Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, (Home: Family Portrait I, Sisters I) University of Oregon

AWARDS / CURATIONS / RESIDENCIES
2022 Artist in Residency, Istanbul, Turkey
2015 The Rema Hort Mann Foundation LA Emerging Artist nominee, CA
2015 Creative Aging (Residency cycle IV), Theatre of Hearts, LA, CA Jan-Apr
2015 Present Tense, Curator, DNJ Gallery at Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
2015 Characters & Conditions, Curator, Nomad Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Creative Visions Photography Show, Curator, ArtShareLA, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Creative Aging (Residency cycle III), Theatre of Hearts, LA, CA Sept-Dec
2014 Creative Aging (Residency cycle II), Theatre of Hearts, LA, CA July-Aug
2014 Creative Aging (Residency cycle I), Theatre of Hearts, LA, CA Feb-May
2012 First Place, Crossing Borders, Emergent Art Space Juried Exhibition
2010 Emerging Artist, LJAWF

ARTIST LECTURES / PANEL DISCUSSIONS / WORKSHOPS
2022
INTERSECTIONS: Diaspora: Citizenship, Identity, and Memory, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE)

2021
San Diego State University, Artist Talk, Asian Pacific Islander Desi American Center
Russell Sage College, Artist Talk, Opalka Gallery, Troy, NY
Chaffey College, Artist Talk, Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art Home Edition
Arts Council for Long Beach, PhotoWorks Editing Workshop

2020
We Are Here: Panel conversation w/ Viet Thanh Nguyen, Phung Huynh, Quyen Nguyen-Le, USC Pacific Asian America Museum, Pasadena, CA Dec 2020
We Are Here: Artist Lecture, USC Pacific Asian America Museum, Pasadena,CA

2019
Lecture series: Vietnamese creative leaders of San Diego, BRIDGE, San Diego,CA
Illuminated Recipes: Photography Instructor, Vietnamese American Arts & Letters Association. Garden Grove, CA

2018
Project Foto: Photography Instructor, Vietnamese American Arts & Letters Association. Westminster,CA
AJA Project: Artist Lecture, San Diego

2016
KaleidoLA: The Speaker Series of the Department of Art and Art History; Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles

2015
Scanning,Post-Production,& Printing:Digital Photography Workshop, Art Institute of Los Angeles
Photography & Social Media: Digital Photography Workshop, AI of Los Angeles
AiAfter Dark, AI of Los Angeles

2014
Portraiture: Digital Photography Workshop, AI of Los Angeles
Executive & Business Portraiture: Digital Photography Workshop, AI of Los Angeles
Photography & Fashion Styling, Ai Summer Break Series, AI of Los Angeles
Digital Photography, Ai Summer Studio, AI of Los Angeles /June 23 – June 26, 2014
AiAfter Dark: Selfies, #AiAfterDark, AI of Los Angeles
Portfolio Success: Digital Photography, Senior Saturday, AI of Los Angeles

2013
The Business of Photography: Digital Photography, Senior Saturday, AI of Los Angeles
Lighting Techniques: Digital Photography, Senior Saturday, AI of Los Angeles
Fundamentals & Foundation: Digital Photography, Senior Saturday, AI of Los Angeles