Ann Le

Ann Le (b. 1981, San Diego, CA) is a first-generation Vietnamese American artist who utilizes photography, collage, illustration, and motion. She received her MFA from California State University, Long Beach and BFA from California State University, Fullerton and has been featured in group exhibitions at Art Salon Chinatown, the Fellows of Contemporary Art Curator’s Lab, and the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery. @annsgood

Ann Le’s World Wars series (2019) layers documentation of families, soldiers, and individuals in Vietnam during the war with family photographs of her own mother and siblings. The cumulative effect of this imagery evokes the importance of personal and collective remembrance. By digitally rebuilding temporal and historical disruptions, Le comments on the idea of home, displacement, separation, and how we embrace and conquer loss. Le’s tragic and poetic composites unravel narratives and place her Vietnamese American perspective into a contemporary landscape.

Artwork captions (from left to right): Ann Le, World War Mothers, 2019, World War Backyard, 2019, World War Beach, 2019, World War Apartment, 2019, World War Disneyland, 2019, Photomontage, 20 x 20 inches each. Courtesy of the artist.