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Danh Vo

Danh Vo’s (b. 1975, Vietnam) practice, existing at the intersection of autobiography and collective history, explores the signification found within archival traces as well as the malleable nature of personal identity. With references to migration and integration, Danh Vo’s largely conceptual body of work destabilizes the embedded structures of legitimacy within citizenship and identification. Emerging from personal relationships and fortuitous encounters, his projects take their final form as objects and images that have accrued shifting layers of meaning in the world, whether through their former ownership, their proximity to specific events, or their currency as universal icons. 

Danh Vo’s works have been exhibited worldwide at institutions including the Pinault Collection – Bourse de Commerce, Paris, France, 2023; Secession, Vienna, Austria, 2021; MUDAM, Luxembourg, 2021; The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan, 2020; Winsing Arts Foundation, Taipei, 2020; South London Gallery, UK, 2019; The Guggenheim, New York; Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK), Copenhagen, Denmark; M+ Museum, Hong Kong; CAPC-Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, France (all in 2018); Aspen Art Museum, Colorado, USA, 2016; Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany, 2015; Palacio de Cristal, Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, 2015; Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico, 2014;  The Kitchen, New York, USA, 2014; Musée d’art modern de la Ville de Paris, France, 2013; the Villa Medici, Rome, Italy, 2013; The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA, 2012; Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria, 2012; the Fredericianum, Kassel, Germany, 2011; Artist Space, New York, USA, 2010; and Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland, 2009.

He won the Arken Art Prize in 2015, the Hugo Boss Prize from the Guggenheim Foundation in 2013, and the BlauOrange Prize, Berlin, Germany in 2007. He represented Denmark at the 2015 Venice Biennale, and was included in the 2019 and 2013 Venice Biennales, the Berlin Biennale in 2014 and 2010, the Singapore Biennale in 2011, and the Gwangju Biennale, South Korea in 2010.