Monday, September 21, 2009

Visiting Artist Lecture

Visiting Artist Lecture
Photography, Pornography, and Autobiography
by Viet Le
Room # EE250, Monday September 21, 2009
Lecture from 1pm - 2:30pm

Viet Lê is an artist, creative writer, and curator. His work has been
published in Fuse; Amerasia Journal ; Art in Asia; corpus; Crab Orchard
Review; nhà; Blue Arc Anthology of California Poets; West Coast Line; Love,
West Hollywood anthology; Asia Art Archive; among others. Lê's artwork has
been featured at The Banff Centre, Canada; Laguna Art Museum, CA; DoBaeBacSa
Gallery, Seoul, Korea; Cape Museum of Fine Arts, MA; Shoshin Performance
Space, NYU, NY; Highways Performance Space, CA; among other venues.

Lê has received fellowships from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation,
Fulbright-Hays, William Joiner Center, Fine Arts Work Center, Center for
Khmer Studies, PEN Center USA. He is a current finalist for the Sovereign
Art Prize. Lê curated Miss Saigon with the Wind (Highways, Santa Monica) and
Charlie Don't Surf! (Centre A, Vancouver, BC); and co-curated humor us (Los
Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, LA, CA), and transPOP: Korea Viet Nam Remix
(Seoul, Sài Gòn, Irvine, San Francisco). Lê received his MFA from the
University of California, Irvine, where he has also taught Studio Art and
Visual Culture courses. He is currently a doctoral candidate at the
University of Southern California.

REMEMBER, PHOTO CLUB WILL BE MEETING AT PCC EE250 THIS WED. AT 5PM (9/23/09)
PHOTO CLUB WILL BE GOING TO THE HUNTINGTON MUSEUM THIS FRIDAY (9/25/09)

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