An-My Lê

An-My Lê (born 1960) is a Vietnamese American photographer, and professor at Bard College.[1]

An-My Lê
Born1960 (age 62–63)
Saigon
NationalityAmerican
OccupationProfessor
Known forPhotography
AwardsMacArthur Fellowship John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

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).[2] Her work was included in the 2017 Whitney Biennial.[3]

Biography

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.[4]

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.[5]

Awards and grants
  • 1993: Blair Dickinson Memorial Award, Yale University School of Art[6]
  • 1995: CameraWorks Inc. fellowship[6]
  • 1996: New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in photography[7]
  • 1997: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship[7]
  • 2004: John Gutmann Photography Fellowship[6]
  • 2007: National Science Foundation, Antarctic Artists and Writers Program Award[8]
  • 2010: Tiffany Comfort Foundation[9]
  • 2012: John D. and Catherina T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship[6]

Books
  • Small Wars. New York: Aperture, 2005. Essay by Richard B. Woodward. Interview by Hilton Als.
  • Events Ashore. New York: Aperture, 2014. Essay by Geoff Dyer.
  • An-My Lê: On Contested Terrain. New York: Aperture, 2020.

Other works
  • Viêt Nam (1994–98)
  • Small Wars (1999–2002) – An album of photos she took between 1999 and 2002 during a reenactment of the Vietnam War. The photos were primarily taken in black and white and portray different scenes that portray battles from the Vietnam War.
  • 29 Palms (2003–04)
  • Trap Rock (2006)

Exhibitions

References
  1. "Bard College | Faculty". Bard.edu. October 30, 2013. Retrieved November 6, 2013.
  2. "An-My Lê — MacArthur Foundation". macfound.org. Retrieved March 11, 2017.
  3. "Whitney Biennial 2017 | Whitney Museum of American Art". whitney.org. Retrieved March 31, 2017.
  4. Shindler, Kelly (October 30, 2007). "Spotlight on Protest: An-My Lê". Art21 Magazine. Retrieved August 25, 2021.
  5. "Events Ashore". Aperture.org. Retrieved July 26, 2017.
  6. "An-My Lê". anmyle.com. Archived from the original on January 10, 2015. Retrieved March 16, 2019.
  7. "An-My Lê". Retrieved March 16, 2019.
  8. "AN-My Lê: The landscape of Conflict". stories.daylight.co. Retrieved March 16, 2019.
  9. "Murray Guy " AN-MY Le, 2010". Retrieved March 16, 2019.
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