Self-portrait, 2021. Silver gelatin print from paper negative shot on 4 x 5 camera.
I am a queer Vietnamese-Canadian artist living and creating on the unceded lands of the Anishinaabe Algonquin people. I have a background in photography and dance and my practice explores ways to visualize multiplicity, including those of our memories and identities. My aim is to evoke reflections on interconnectedness, ways in which memories are stored, reconstructed and released within our body and psyche, and to remind the audience of their own transformative power to reshape our own perspectives and imagine new futures.
I like to blend historical photographic processes, digital manipulation, and figuration to create composites that merge the physical and digital. Influenced by my Vietnamese heritage and performing arts practice, I draw inspiration from artists like Lilly and Lana Wachowski, Sara Cwynar, Michiko Kon, and Martha Graham.
My work has been exhibited at the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, the Toronto Outdoor Art Fair, and public spaces such as the Ottawa Art Gallery - Annex, Etobicoke Civic Centre Art Gallery, Digital Arts Resource Centre, and Axeneo7. I am also grateful to have received funding from the Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts.