CV
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 - Present
Lecturer Photography (Photo 150: History of Photography; Photo 125: Photo Business Operations)
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
- In Passing: Fort Worth Contemporary Arts (Texas Christian University), Texas
- Vietnam in Transition: 1976-Present (Warhol Foundation), Wende Museum, Culver City,CA
-Coin of Light: Golden West College Art Gallery, Huntington Beach, 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 -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 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 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
-AiAfter Dark, AI of Los Angeles
-Portfolio Success: Digital Photography, AI of Los Angeles
2013
-The Business of Photography: Digital Photography, AI of Los Angeles
-Lighting Techniques: Digital Photography, AI of Los Angeles
-Fundamentals & Foundation: Digital Photography, AI of Los Angeles