Reimagining Vietnamese women identity
In this dialogue with A&M, a multiplatform specializing in Southeast Asian art, Le Hien Minh reflects on her two-decade career, discusses upcoming projects, and shares candid thoughts on how she approaches art.
Disobedient Bodies
Sundaram Tagore, Singapore.
Le Hien Minh will present selected works, including her newest piece, Some Body to Love, at Sundaram Tagore Gallery.
January 11 – March 8, 2025.
Ground Floor Biennial
Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, USA
Le Hien Minh will join the Ground Floor Biennial at Hyde Park Art Center, a platform for Chicago’s top emerging artists since 2010.
December 7, 2024 – March 16, 2025
3Arts Ignite Fund
Chicago, USA
Le Hien Minh is a grantee of the Ignite Fund, which support experimental and groundbreaking visual arts-based work by Chicago-area artists for her Nail Women’s Project, 2024.
A Village Before Us
John David Mooney Foundation, Chicago, USA
Le Hien Minh will show works from the series “Ornamentalism” from November 10 to December 31, 2023.
Tongue & Nail
Iceberg Projects, Chicago, USA
Le Hien Minh will show the artwork “Minority Model” at Iceberg Projects, a gallery supporting artists of color, queer artists, and emerging artists.
April 01 – 29, 2023
Pacific–Leipzig
Deutsches Haus, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam
Le Hien Minh will exhibit her etching print at the Deutsches Haus from
November 29 – December 18, 2022.
Asian Culture Council
New York, USA
Le Hien Minh is a Fellow of the Asian Culture Council, 2022.
Making & Experiencing Asian Culture
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
The artwork “The States of Mind” will be shown at the museum from
June 24 – September 21, 2021.
Within | Between | Beneath | Upon
Factory Contemporary Arts Center, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam
The installation “The Gods of Expectation” will be shown from March 13, 2021 – June 06, 2021.
Objekti 6
Veteran Park, Espoo, Finland
After Helsinki, the work “Divine Feminine” will be shown
at Espoo, the 2nd largest city in Finland from
June 10 – September 06, 2020.
Spring Show
Art and Culture Centre Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei, Leipzig, Germany
Le Hien Minh will exhibit the installation “The Invisibility of Female Labor,” created specifically for the LIA residency in Leipzig, Germany, from May 14–16, 2020.
Pacific-Leipzig Grant Winner
Leipzig, Germany
Le Hien Minh is the 1st winner of the Pacific-Leipzig 2020, a project between the Goethe-Institut Vietnam and LIA.
She will participate in the LIA residency from March to May 2020.
25th Hakata Tomyo Festival
Fukuoka, Japan
To celebrate this annual Fukuoka city festival, Le Hien Minh will use traditional Tomyo lanterns to light up the entire street outside the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum.
October 19, 2019, from 6pm to 9pm.
The States of Mind
Fukuoka, Japan
Le Hien Minh will exhibit the work “The States of Mind” at Myorakuji Temple, a historical site in Fukuoka city.
The public installation will be displayed from October 11 – 14, 2019.
Mask Workshop
Fukuoka, Japan
Le Hien Minh will hold three workshops at FAAM for public school students. The students’ masks will be displayed at the museum from September 26 to November 26, 2019.
Artist Talk
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
Le Hien Minh will give a talk discussing her years of inventing new ways to employ Dó paper within a
contemporary context which is a catalyst for cultural sustainability and preservation of material heritage.
August 24, 2019 from 4pm to 5pm.
FAAM Residency
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
Le Hien Minh is one of two artists selected to receive a full fellowship in FAAM’s residency program in the fall of 2019, recognized as one of the most prestigious residency programs in Asia.
Sculpture Expanded
Helsinki, Finland
Le Hien Minh will exhibit the installation “Divine Feminine,” which will be displayed at three public locations:
May 17 – June 30 2019 REDI
July 1 – August 15 2019 Hesperia Park
August 15 – September 15 2019 Allas Sea Pool
Art Omi Residency
Ghent, New York
Le Hien Minh will join 30 other artists from around the world at the Art Omi residency in the summer of 2019 to experiment, collaborate, and share ideas.
Artist Talk
San Jose Museum of Art, USA
Le Hien Minh will discuss her life in art as it relates to communist and capitalist economies, materiality, and the Buddhist concept of impermanence on January 2, 2019.