An-My Lê

An-My Lê, a photographer, was born in Saigon, Vietnam. She came to the United States in 1975 as a political refugee, and earned a BAS and an MS from Stanford University and an MFA from Yale University School of the Arts. Her subject matter contains both war reenactments as well as images of soldiers in the U.S. training for service in the Middle East. As Merrily Kerr of Time Out New York writes, “Lê does not sensationalize her subject . . .. Instead, the somber black-and-white photographs disclose the limits of training and suggest that our soldiers may have a lot to learn when they arrive overseas” (October 2004, Issue no. 472). Recent solo exhibitions include San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, PS1/MoMA, DIA: Beacon. She received the National Science Foundation Artists and Writers grant in 2008 to travel to Antarctica. She is also an assistant professor of photography at Bard College.