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Interview of Binh Danh on SPARK, KQED click here
EDUCATION
2004 MFA in Studio Art, Stanford University, CA
2002
BFA in Photography, minor in Asian American Studies San Jose State University, CA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITION
2011
Viet Nam, Nebraska, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE
The Grass over Graves, Stanier Gallery, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA
2010-11
In the Eclipse of Angkor (travelling exhibition): Piedmont Arts, Martinsville, VA,
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
2010
Collecting Memories, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
Ancestral Alters, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
Life, Times, and Matter of the Swamp, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY
Art on Market Street posters: Leaves of San Francisco, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA
2009
In the Eclipse of Angkor: Tuol Sleng, Choeung Ek, and Khmer Temples, Shasta College Art Gallery,
Redding, CA
In the Eclipse of Angkor, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
In the Eclipse of Angkor: Tuol Sleng, Choeung EK, and Khmer Temples, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Artist-in-Residence Exhibition, Hollins University at the Eleanor Wilson Museum, Roanoke, Virginia
Binh Danh: New Work, University of Oregon, Jordan Schnitzer Museum, Eugene, OR
2008
Life, Times, and Matter of the Swamp, Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery, Weber State University, Ogden, UT
Life, Times, and Matter of the Swamp, Clara Hatton Gallery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
2007
The Botany of Transformation, Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA
The Botany of Tuol Sleng, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Botanical Stories, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA
One Week’s Dead, Light work, Syracuse, New York
Jungle of Memories, Chico State University, Chico, CA
2006
Ancestral Altars, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005
Room for contemplation, Cantor Center for the Arts, Stanford, CA
Binh Danh’s Photographic Works, Mohn Gallery, Finn Center, Community School of Arts & Music, Mountain View, CA
2004
Human / Nature, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002
Immortality: The Remnants of the Vietnam and American War, Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery,
Porter College, UC Santa Cruz, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
Systems of Collecting, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
Science of Sight, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2010-11
15 Minutes of Fame: Portraits From Ansel Adams to Andy Warhol, Orange County Museum of Art, CA
2010
The Future Lasts Forever, San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
Push/Process, CoExist Arts, Southend-On-Sea, Essex, United Kingdom
Edges of Light, Art Benicia, Benicia, CA
Exposed: Today’s Photography/Yesterday’s Technology, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art,
San Jose, CA
Personal Identities / Contemporary Portraits, Sonoma State University Art Gallery, CA
Art / Not Art, George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, NY
The Future Lasts Forever, San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
2009
Everything Illuminated Arts, San Arts, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam.
Pictures/Words, Nelson Gallery, Lexington, VA
Agent Orange: Landscape, Body, Image, California Museum of Photography, University of California Riverside, CA
LandMark, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Post Memory: Makeshift Memorials in Contemporary Art, Elizabeth Foundation Gallery, New York, NY
One Way Or Another: Asian Art Now, Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, HI
Picturing Eden, Munson-Williams-Prcotor Arts Institute, Utica, NY
2008
Shifted Focus: 10th Anniversary APAture Retrospective Exhibition, Kearny Street Workshop,
San Francisco, CA
A New Cosmopolitanism, California State University, Fullerton, CA
Life as a way of war, 18th Street Art Center, Santa Monica, CA
2007
The Missing peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama, San Francisco, CA
Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Landscape & Memory II, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Witness to War: Revisiting Vietnam in Contemporary Art,” International Center for the Arts at San Francisco State
University, San Francisco, CA
2006-07
One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now, Asia Society Museum, New York, NY [Traveling exhibition. Other
venues include: Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Berkeley Art Museum, Japanese American National
Museum, Los Angeles, CA]
2006
Director’s Choice, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006 California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Picturing Eden, George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, NY
The Missing Peace: The Dalai Lama Portrait Project, Fowler Museum of Cultural History, University
of California, LA, Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago, Rubin Museum of Art, NY
Peripheral Vision, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Image as Object, Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, Porter College, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA
The Genius of the Place – Land and Identity in Contemporary Art, Art Museum of Western Virginia,
Roanoke, WV
Another Asia – Fotomanifestatie Noorderlicht, Noorderlicht Fotogalerie, Groningen, Netherlands
Visual Politics – The Art of Engagement, The Katzen Arts Center at American University, Washington, DC
2005
Director’s Choice: Contemporary Art with Objects from Asia, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Stages of Memory: The War in Vietnam, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College,
Chicago, IL
Persistent Vestiges: Drawing from the American-Vietnam War, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Picturing Eden, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
In/Sight; A Celebration of Photography and Poetry, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
2004
Cream, Arts Benicia Center Gallery, Benicia, CA
MFA Exhibition, Thomas Welton Stanford Art Gallery, Stanford, CA
What’s going on? California and the Vietnam Era, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
State of the Nation, Intersection of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Collapsing Histories Project, Daigo Fukuryu Maru Exhibition Hall and Gallery ef, Tokyo, Japan
Collapsing Histories Project, Santa Cruz Institute of Contemporary Art, Santa Cruz, CA
Re-mix 2004, SomArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
California Masters, Works/San Jose, San Jose. CA
Art as artifacts, Martin Luther King Library, San Jose, CA
Closing the Distance, Euphrat Museum of Art, Cupertino, CA
Perspective x 3: Visions of Vietnam: Chuong, Danh, and Narasimhan, Chinese Culture Center,
San Francisco, CA
2003
Bring Light into the Darkness, SomArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
Global Elegies: Art & Ofrendas for the Dead, Oakland Museum of CA, Oakland, CA
APAture, SomArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
The Cameraless Image, Photo-Eye Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Agitate, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
Orange Alert, Thomas Welton Stanford Art Gallery, Stanford, CA
Hybrid, SF State University Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002
Immortality: The Remnants of the Vietnam and American War, solo, Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery,
Porter
College, UC Santa Cruz, CA
Searching for the Cosmos, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
Remembrance, Silicon Valley Art Museum, Belmont, CA
Ag Works 25, member show, Works/San Jose, San Jose. CA
Magician’s Day Off and Other Stories, Euphrat Museum of Art, Cupertino, CA
Thinking Green: With the Earth, Arts and Environment, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, CA
2001
Immortality: The Remnants of the Vietnam and American War, Gallery Three, San Jose State University,
San Jose, CA
Viêt nam, Gallery Three, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
The Beauty of Decay, Cogswell College, Sunnyvale, San Jose, CA
Introduction South, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
First Anniversary Exhibit, Art Object Gallery, San Jose, CA
2000
Boat People: Self Portraits, Gallery Two, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
1999
Killing Death: the Daguerreotype Series, Gallery Two, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
Evidence, Gallery Five, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
Silent night auction, Works/San Jose, San Jose, CA
1998
Botany Specimens, Gallery Five, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
Once White, Gallery Five, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
1996
Olympiad of the Arts, Villa Montalvo, CA
RESIDENCIES, FELLOWSHIP, AND AWARDS
2010
Eureka Fellowship, Fleishhacker Foundation, San Francisco, CA
Art on Market 2009/2010 Kiosk Poster Series, San Francisco Arts Commission, CA
2009
Frances Niederer Artist-in-Residence, Spring Semester 2009, Hollins University, VA
The John and Barbara Glynn Family Visiting Professor, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA
2008
Hurst Artist in Residence, Webster State University, Ogden, UT
Critic and Artist Residency Series, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
2007
Eureka Fellowship, Fleishhacker Foundation, San Francisco, CA 2007
Residency at Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
Visions from the New California Award, Alliance of Artists Communities, Providence, RI
2006
Residency at Light Work, Syracuse, NY
“The Influence of Memory,” Spark, KQED, Episode #410.
2004/05
Arts Council Silicon Valley Artist Fellowship
Residency at the Cite Internationale Des Arts in Paris
2004
Artist Project Award, The Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA
2003
Cantor Center for Visual Arts Fellowship, Stanford, CA
Artist Diversity Residency Program, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
2002
Lillie Webster Squires Memorial Fellowship, Stanford, CA
Artist Diversity Residency Program, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
2001
Individual Grant, Belle Foundation, San Jose, CA
2000
Lottery Grant, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
Veronica Lew Button Scholarship, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
1999
Alumni Association Scholarship, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
1998
Violet Speedy Scholarship, from the School of Art and Design, San Jose, CA
1996
Bank of America Achievement Award in the Field of Fine Arts, Plaque Winner, San Jose, CA
Montalvo Award of Merit, Villa Montalvo, CA
LECTURES AND PANELS
2009
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Washington & Lee University, Lexington, VA
California Museum of Photography, Agent Orange: Landscape, Body, and Image, University of California,
Riverside
2007
Mills College, Oakland, CA
2006
Art Museum of West Virginia, Roanoke, VA
2004
SomArts, Process Makes Perfect, Kearny Street Workshop
Cantor Art Center’s 50th Anniversary, MFA Highlight, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Triton Museum of Art, Making/Reading Art: Immigrant and History with Hung Liu, Flo Oy Wong, and
Moira Roth, Santa Clara, CA.
2003
Oakland Museum of California, Global Elegies: Art and Ofrendas for the Dead panel, Oakland, CA
Visual Aid, Artist Lecture Series, San Francisco, CA
California State Summer School for the Arts at Cal Arts, Art and Culture Lecture Series, Valencia, CA
SF Camerawork, West Coast Artist Presentation, San Francisco, CA
Sacred Heart Prep, Guest Speaker in B/W Photo
2002
Stanford University, Winter Quarter Luncheon Series for Asian American Studies.
San Francisco Art Institute, Fall Lecture Series, Photo Alliance, opening speaker for Adam Fuss.
Stanford University, Robert Dawson’s Intro to Photography
2001
San Francisco Art Institute, Linda Connor’s Sacred and Profane.
San Francisco State University, Julie Blankenship’s Artists in the Bay Area.
Cogswell College, Jack Toolin’s 20th Century Art.
2000
Arizona State University, Association of Asian American Studies Conference, Panelist: Image-ing,
Imagining Asian America.
San Francisco Art Institute, Julie Blankenship’s Photography Critique Seminar.
San Jose State University, Dr. Curtiss Rooks’s Asian American Studies 33B.
TEACHING ASSISTANTSHIPS AND POSITIONS
2009
Picturing Memory and Thereafter, Hollins University, VA, Spring.
Photo I (Beginning), III (Large Format), and IV (Honor Thesis), Washington and Lee University, VA Fall.
2008
Alternative Processes, Stanford University, Dept of Art and Art History, Spring.
2007
Alternative Processes, Stanford University, Dept of Art and Art History, Spring.
2006
Graduate Seminar in Photography, San Jose State University, Spring.
Picturing Home, California College of the Arts, Spring.
2005
Home and Family Values, San Francisco Art Institute, Fall.
Beginning Photography, Foothill Community College, Fall.
Hologram Workshop, Foothill Community College, Fall.
2004
Photography for non-majors, Stanford University, Dept of Art and Art History.
2003
Lukas Felzmann, Stanford University, Dept of Art and Art History, Photo One.
2002-04
Joel Leivick, Stanford University, Dept of Art and Art History, Photo Three.
2002-03
Robert Dawson, Stanford University, Dept of Art and Art History, Photo One.
2001
Brian Taylor, SJSU, School of Art and Design, Advanced Alternative Processes.
1998-02
Mimi Plumb-Chambers, SJSU, School of Art and Design, Beginning and Intermediate photography.
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
M.H. de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, Hollins University, Roanoke, VA
George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas, Austin, TX
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
North Carolina Museum of Art; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
Orange County Museum of Art, New Port Beach, CA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA
University Art Museum at Fort Collins University, CO
University of California, Santa Cruz, CA
William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, CT
ARTICLES/REVIEWS
2011
Zhang, Michael. “Photographer Makes ‘Chlorophyll Prints’ Using Leaves and Sunlight,” PetaPixel,
August 30, 2011.
2010
Pritikin, Renny. “Collecting Memories,” Art Practical, August 2010.
Baker, Kenneth. “Danh, Spence shows at Mills College Art Museum,” San Francisco Chronicle,
September 9, 2010
Cappon-Javey, Maureen. “’Exposed’ Artist Profile: Binh Danh,” Talking Art: Art and Conversation
at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art and Beyond, July 20, 2010
2009
“N.C. Museum of Art Presents Rockwell, Four Other Exhibitions in 2010,” Raleigh Downtowner,
December 30, 2009
“N.C. Museum of Art Announces Exhibition for Reopening November 2010,” Ardaily.org,
November 25, 2009.
Nilsen, Richard. “Live-leaf photos imprint horror of Khmer killings,” The Arizona Republic, June 12, 2009.
Vanesian, Kathleen. “’Binh Danh: In the Eclipse of Angkor’ at Lisa Sette Gallery,” Phoenix New Times,
June 2, 2009.
Bing, Alison. “Binh Danh at Haines Gallery,” Artweek, March 2009.
Schultz, Robert. “Faces Fleshed in Green,” The Virginia Quarterly Review, Winter 2009.
Baker, Kenneth. “Artists confront horrors of the past – and of an unknowable future,” San Francisco
Chronicle, January 17, 2009.
2007
Beil, Kim. "'California Biennial' at OCMA," ARTweek, February 2007.
Morse, Marcia. “’Reconstructing Memories’ at the UH Art Gallery,”ARTweek, March 2007, Volume 38,
Issue 2.
Wong, Martin. " Sweet Leaf," Giant Robot Magazine, Issue 46, March 2007.
2006
Baker, Kenneth. “Binh Danh’s ‘Altars’ at Haines,” San Francisco Chronicle, September 16, 2006.
Baker, Kenneth. “Fall Arts Preview,” San Francisco Chronicle, August 27, 2006.
Chun, Kimberly and Johnny Ray Huston. “Fall Favorites,” San Francisco Bay Guardian, August 30 –
September 5, 2006.
Goldstein, Melissa. “Seven Things to Know Right Now,” 7x7 Magazine, September 2006.
Kunitz, Daniel. “Defying The Definitive,” The New York Sun, September 14, 2006.
Larson, Kay. “Art; Such a Casual Man, but So Many Auras,” The New York Times, June 11, 2006.
Martini, Tiffany. “Binh Danh: Turning Over a New Leaf,” San Francisco Examiner, September 30, 2006.
Martini, Tiffany. “Binh Danh,” Alarm Magazine, Issue 24, October, 2006.
Muchnic, Suzanne. “The Faces of this Place: 2006 California Biennial, Los Angeles Times, October 7, 2006.
Smith, Roberta. “A Mélange of Asian Roots and Shifting Identities,” The New York Times,
September 8, 2006.
“The Listings: Vietnam One Week’s Dead,” The New York Times, September 15, 2006.
“Sun Prints,” National Geographic Magazine, November 2006, Vol. 210, No. 5.
2005
Cotter, Holland. “Two Sides’ Viewpoints on the War in Vietnam,” The New York Times, December 9th, 2005.
Camhi, Leslie. “After the Fall: Only with time do we grasp the fuller significance of traumatic events,”
The Village Voice, December 9, 2005.
Lidgus, Sarah. “Binh Danh,” ART PAPERS, March/April 2005
2004
“Human / Nature,” Asian Art News, Volume 14, Number 5, September/October, 2004, p.24.
Baker, Kenneth. San Francisco Chronicle, September 18, 2004, p.E10.
“What’s Going On: California and the Vietnam Era,” Marcia A. Eymann and Charles Wollenberg, eds, University of California Press: Berkeley, p.186.
Vance, Kelly. “Vietnam, at Ground Level,” East Bay Express, August 25, 2004
Wasserman, Abby. “Binh Danh: First Person,” The Museum of California, Summer 2004 Vol. 28
Num. 3, p.18.
Hirsch, Robert “Exploring Color Photography,” McGraw-Hill edition 4. p.13.
“Photosynthesis,” HYPHEN, Summer 2004, Issue 4, p.25-27.
“Arts Ahead,” Grant, Michael S., Metro, April 7 – 14 Vol 20 Num. 7, p.58.
2003
Santiago, Chiori. “Elegies,” The Museum of California, Fall 2003 Vol. 27 Num. 4, p.16.
Hendricks, Tyche. “Dia de Los Muertos,” San Francisco Chronicle, October 31, 2003, p. A21.
Spalding, David. “Dancing as Fast as They Can,” Artweek, September 2003, p. 11.
Douglass, Kim. “Chlorophyll Art Highlights Interconnectedness of the Natural World,” Optics & Photonics News,
Sept. 2003, Vol. 14 No. 9, p. 11.
Armitage, Diane. “The Cameraless Image,” The Magazine, July 2003, p. 57.
Levine, Kitzel. “NPR: Binh Danh's Chlorophyll Art,” NPR Morning Edition, June 12, 2003,
(http://www.npr.org/programs/talkingplants/features/2003/danh/index.html)
Baker, Kenneth. “Artists leave the camera out of the picture,” San Francisco Chronicle, June 7, 2003, p.D10.
Kim, Stefanie. “Searching for Vietnam: Photographer Binh Danh”, Communic Asian, Winter 2003. p.15.
Aarons, Dararail. “Artist talks to classes about craft,” Daily Nebraska, Jan 29, 2003, p.5.
2002
Fisher, Jack. “Organic visions of Vietnam,” San Jose Mercury News, Dec 1, 2002, p. 5E.
Rockstroh, Dennis. “Exhibit leaves imprint about the pain of war,” San Jose Mercury News, Nov 23, 2002,
p. 2B.
“Immortality,” Duc Ha, Viet Mercury, Nov 22, 2002, p. 67.
Wolgamott, Kent.“Telling his history,” Lincoln Journalstar, Nov 11, 2002, Art and Entertainment section.
Semmes, Travis. “Artistic Growth,” Santa Cruz Sentinel, Nov 7, 2002, p. B1.
Andersen, Kathe. “Danh at UNL with artist diversity program”, Scarlet, Oct 31, 2002, p.1.
Olson, Marisa S. “Photographing the Scientific Real,” Artweek, Oct 2002, p.16.
Shah, Rima. “Photographer leafs his mark on history”, Spartan Daily, May 2, 2002, p.6.
2001
“HSJ Digitizes Collection for Website”, The Exchange, Nov 2001, p.3.
1999
“Focused on humanity”, Washington Square, Fall 1999, p.8.
OTHERS
Board of Director: San Francisco Camerawork (current)
Advisory Board: Viet Art Association (current)
Board of Director: WORKS/SAN JOSE Art and Performance Space (May 99 – Dec 01.)
2003 Selected Artist for SF Camerawork Patron Print Program
2002 Selected Artist for WORK/SAN JOSE Patron Print Fundraiser with Julie Blankenship.
