FotoFocus Presents: An-My Lê
Posted on February 6, 2025
FotoFocus is pleased to present the Spring 2025 Lecture and Visiting Artist Series with An-My Lê.
Details
Thursday, March 6, 2025 at 6:30pm
Cincinnati Art Museum, Fath Auditorium
953 Eden Park Dr, Cincinnati, OH 45202
This event is free and open to the public but registration is kindly requested. A reception will immediately follow the talk in the Marek-Weaver Family Commons.
ACCESSIBILITY ACCOMMODATIONS
Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) will be provided. Assistive Listening Devices are available upon request. For questions regarding accessibility accommodations at FotoFocus events, please contact info@fotofocus.org.
Vietnamese-American Photographer An-My Lê to Present the 2025 FotoFocus Spring Lecture
Following her MoMA retrospective, An-My Lê will speak with FotoFocus Artistic Director and Curator Kevin Moore at the Cincinnati Art Museum on March 6
(CINCINNATI, OH — FEBRUARY 6, 2025) — Cincinnati-based nonprofit arts organization and champion of lens-based art, FotoFocus is pleased to announce Vietnamese-American photographer, filmmaker, and author An-My Lê as the latest speaker in its Lecture and Visiting Artist Series. The talk, which is free and open to the public, will take place at the Cincinnati Art Museum, Fath Auditorium on Thursday, March 6 at 6:30 pm. This event comes on the heels of a successful 2024 FotoFocus Biennial, the largest to date for the organization. Featuring 107 projects, the Biennial welcomed more than 300,000 attendees last fall.
Known for her evocative imagery of war, landscape, and displacement, throughout her 30-year career, Lê has consistently turned her lens towards exploring the intersections of human experience and political realities. In recent years, Lê’s work was the center of two important museum exhibitions: Between Two Rivers/Giữa hai giòng sông/Entre deux rivières (2023–2024), her major retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, which featured photographs from the last three decades as well as explorations of other mediums such as video, textile, and sculpture and On Contested Terrain (2020–2021), at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, which traveled to the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Amon Carter Museum.
Lê has a solo exhibition of two new bodies of work, Dark Star/Grey Wolf, on view at Marian Goodman Gallery in New York through February 22, 2025. The cinematic presentation explores the contradictions within the American landscape of manifestation and the sublime.
FotoFocus Artistic Director and Curator Kevin Moore said, “An-My Lê is a singular voice in photography. Her work combines personal history with geo-politics in a brave, elegant and thoughtful way.”
“An-My Lê’s robust body of work teaches us how to look at conflict and contemplate the interwoven threads of the personal and the historical, the human and the political. We are honored to have the opportunity to think through and beyond our historical moment with Lê during this year’s Lecture and Visiting Artist Series,” said FotoFocus Executive Director Katherine Ryckman Siegwarth.
About the Artist
An-My Lê was born in Saigon, Vietnam in 1960. She earned her B.A.S. and M.S. from Stanford University and her M.F.A. from Yale University. She has been the recipient of numerous awards including the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (2012); the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (2009); and the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (1997), amongst others. Lê currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, and is Professor of Photography at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.
After fleeing Vietnam in 1975, Lê’s family settled in the United States as refugees. Her work often addresses the impact of war on culture and the environment, stating 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.”
In 2023, Lê presented Between Two Rivers/GiỮa hai giòng sông/Entre deux rivières at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. In 2020, a major exhibition opened at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, and traveled to the Milwaukee Art Museum, WI, and the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX. Other solo exhibitions of Lê’s work have been presented at the Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE (2017); Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg, Sweden (2015); Baltimore Museum of Art, MD (2013); Dia Beacon, New York, NY (2008); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA (2008); and MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY (2002).
Her work has also been included in the Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (2017), and the Taipei Biennial (2014 and 2006). She has been included in numerous international group shows including at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN (2019); Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (2017); the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (2016); National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan (2015); Tate Modern, London, UK (2014); Brooklyn Museum, NY (2012); and The Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (2010), amongst others.
Watch the Lecture
Watch the FotoFocus Presents: An-My Lê on Vimeo.
