An-My Le
An-My Le (b. 1960, Vietnam) was educated at Stanford University and Yale University, and has been the recipient of numerous awards including the Mac Arthur Foundation Fellowship in 2012; the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award in 2009; and the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 1997, amongst others. An-My Le is currently the Charles Franklin Kellogg and Grace E. Ramsey Kellogg Professor in the Arts at Bard College, New York.
As a teenager, An-My Le fled Vietnam with her family in 1975. They eventually settled in the United States as refugees. Her work often addresses the impact of war on culture and on the environment. The artist 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”.
Her work has also been included in the Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA, 2017 and the Taipei Biennial, Taiwan, 2014 and 2006. She has been included in numerous international group shows including at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota, USA, 2019; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA, 2017; the Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA, 2016; National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan, 2015; Tate Modern, London, UK, 2014; Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA, 2012; and the Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA, 2010, amongst others.