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Born in Saigon, An-my Lê came to the US as a teenager fleeing Vietnam at the end of the war. After completing her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in biology from Stanford University, she received a Master of Fine Arts from Yale School of Art in 1993. Her work has been exhibited in solo shows at several prestigious venues including the NY MOMA and galleries abroad.
A photographer by profession, her work depicts the impact and havoc created by war, shaped by her own personal experience. Her first book Small Wars is a collection of her trilogy of photographs depicting post-war Vietnam, re-enactment of the Vietnam War and Marines training for the Gulf Wars. Her recent book Events Ashore captures the work done by the US Navy over a 9 year period as well as interesting scientific missions to the Artic, Antarctic and humanitarian missions in Asia and Africa. A winner of the MacArthur Fellowship, An-my Lê is also a recipient of the National Science Foundation Antarctic Artists and Writers Program Award and the Guggenheim Fellowship. She is currently a Professor of Photography at Bard College.