Curriculum Vitae
Education
2004 BFA, President's Scholar, Studio Art with concentration in Pictorial Art, School of Art and Design, San José State University
2003 Advanced Studies in Pictorial Art, School of the Arts and Architecture, University of California, Los Ángeles
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024 Peace be to this House, site-specific installation for Housing California’s 45th Year Annual Conference, Long Beach Convention Center, Long Beach, CA
2022 Understory: as retold by Trinh Mai & Birds, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
2019 That We Should Be Heirs, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
Memory & Place, Gould Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Her Story in History, California History Center, Cupertino, CA
Destination: Transformation, for the New California Arts Forum for James Irvine Foundation, Segerstrom Center for the Arts, Costa Mesa, CA 2017 Lifeline, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA This Journey, Pasadena Central Library, as part of One City, One Story, Pasadena, CA
2016 War Wounds, Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA
Human Potential, Shangri-La Springs, Bonita Beach, FL
2015 Bone of My Bone, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2013 Cap(abilities), featured poet and visual artist, Vietnamese American Arts & Letters Association, Santa Ana, CA (view poetry reading)
We Are Here, Việt Báo Gallery, Westminster, CA
2012 Time and Time Again: A Retrospective Show of Works by Trinh Mai, The District Art Gallery, Tustin, CA
University of California Irvine’s Vietnamese American Oral History Project, featured artist for project's public unveiling
2011 For Life: Paintings by Trinh Mai to benefit the Angkor Hospital for Children, a.Muse Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2010 It’s Time, Whitespace Gallerie, Naples, FL
2008 A Second Chance, Sona Gallery, Naples, FL
I See, Six Degrees Gallery, Naples, FL
2007 I Still Am, Sona Gallery, Naples, FL
2004 I Am, Gallery Three, San José State University
2003 Conversations With God, Gallery Eight, San José State University
2002 Painting through the Spirit, Tree of Life Church, Naples, FL
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Seven Visions x Seven Artists, Angels Gate Art Center, San Pedro, CA
2023 Ventura County: A Place that We Call Home, Santa Paula Agricultural Museum, Santa Paula, CA
In Passing: Ann Le and Trinh Mai, Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, Fort Worth, TX
Momentum, The Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, Brown University, Providence, RI 2023
WPA: Contemporary Interpretations, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA
Then and Now: Rancho Los Cerritos, Rancho Los Cerritos Museum, Long Beach, CA
Under Water, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
Hidden Heritages, San José Museum of Art + Chopsticks Alley + San José Office of Cultural Affairs, San José City Hall, San José, CA
2022 Impermanence: Stories of Rupture and Repair, Billie Jean King Library, Long Beach, CA
Concepts of Home, The Getty Center in partnership with Rancho Los Cerritos, Long Beach, CA
Memories of Tomorrow’s Sunrise, Ronald H. Silverman Fine Arts Gallery, Los Ángeles, CA (+ catalogue)
Textures of Remembrance, Kaddatz Galleries, Fergus Falls, MN; traveling to Oakland Asian Cultural Center, Oakland, CA (2022); traveling to the Global Museum,
San Francisco, CA (2022); traveling to The Chandler Museum, Chandler, AZ (2024); traveling to San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA; traveling to the Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County, Moorhead, MN (2025)
Grow our Souls, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA A Growing Collection, works from OMA’s permanent collection, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA (+ catalogue)
2021 Hostile Terrain, Gallery 51, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, North Adams, MA
Hobson’s Choice, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
Stretched Language: Explorations into Visual and Mathematical Poetry, Bonita Art Museum, Bonita, CA (+ catalogue)
2020 Living Democracy, Platform Gallery, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, University of California Santa Barbara
2019 That We Should Be Heirs documented by Jenna Hanford, as part of Life Wide Angle/Close Up, Wing Luke Museum, Seattle, WA
Correspondence, 1805 Gallery in partnership with Porto Vista Hotel, San Diego, CA
Ancestral Journeys, Euphrat Museum of Art, Cupertino, CA
Harvest, Segerstrom Center for the Arts, Costa Mesa, CA
2018 The Foodie Space, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA
Salt Stained, presented by Chopsticks Alley in partnership with San Jose Museum of Art, Art Object Gallery, San José, CA
Family Tree, The Strand Theater, San Francisco, CA
Hướng Nước // Inheritance // Water, Portland Children's Museum, Portland, OR
2017 Our Autumn Moon, Bowers Museum, Santa Ana, CA
Then, Now, and Hereafter, a duo show with Kelly Clark in honor of her life, Pioneer Square, Seattle, WA (Peace be, Belle. Together. Even after life.)
Prayers, Peace, and Resistance, Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, CA
Ribba, Coastline Gallery, Newport Beach, CA
2016 Nature and Us, Vietnamese American Society of Creative Arts and Music, San José, CA (+ catalogue)
I Breathe With You, Augusta Savage Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (+ catalogue)
2015 Generations: 40 Hues Between Black and White, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA (+ catalogue)
Beyond Land and Ocean, presented by the Pacific Symphony, Segerstrom Center for the Arts, Costa Mesa, CA
Artist Alliance Biennial, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA
The Artist Odyssey, 3rdSpace, San Diego, CA
2014 Fiesta Latina, Bowers Museum, Santa Ana, CA
A Day in the Life of Asian Pacific America, Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
Coastal Color, Oceanside Museum of Art / Herbert B. Turner Galleries, Del Mar, CA
LA Heat, Chinese American Museum, Los Angeles, CA (+ catalogue)
Touchstone: Artist Alliance II, Oceanside Museum of Art / Herbert B. Turner Galleries, Del Mar, CA
2013 Sacred Memories, Pico House Gallery, Los Ángeles, CA
APAture, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2012 Trùng Dương: The Convergence of Rivers, San Jose Center for the Performing Arts, San José, CA
Bảy Cửa | Seven Doors, Jennifer & Philip DiNapoli Gallery, San José, CA
Full Circle, The District Art Gallery, Tustin, CA
Today, Tresidder Memorial Union, Stanford University, CA
3rd Vietnamese-American Art and Poetry Festival, African American Art & Culture Complex, San Francisco, CA
Centered on the Center, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA
2011 Marvelous Metaphors: Art as Visual Poetry, Vietnamese American Arts & Letters Association, Santa Ana, CA (+ catalogue)
New Works, Pacific Place, Union Square, San Francisco, CA
Friends Without a Border 9th Annual Gala, Espace, New York, NY
2010 Venation, La Familia Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Turn, Turn, Turn, The Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center, Fort Myers, FL
2009 The Canvas Project, Art House Gallery, Atlanta, GA; traveled to the Atlanta International Airport Atrium Gallery, Atlanta, GA
From One Generation to the Next, Amrithika Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
XOXO: 3rd Annual Nudes Exhibition, Space Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008 Out of Clay, John Waggoner Gallery, Naples, FL
Environmental Twists, Sona Gallery, Naples, FL
Still Life: Further than Fruits and Flowers, Lauritzen-Rush Gallery, Marco Island, FL
2007 New Works, Room Interior Philosophy, Naples, FL
2006 Flux, Works Gallery, San José, CA
Nine, Jennifer & Philip DiNapoli Gallery, San José, CA
2005 An Exploration into the Realm of Duality, Green Rice Gallery, San José, CA
2003 Our Valley Our Voices, Gallery Three, San José State University
Selected Benefit Exhibitions
2022 Biennial Art Auction, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA
2021 Undocumented Women’s Fund Art Auction, New York, NY
Asian American Women Artists Association Art Auction, San Francisco, CA
2020 Friends of Huế Foundation 20th Year Anniversary Auction benefitting the Children’s Shelter, Huế, Việt Nam
Triton Museum Art Auction, Santa Clara, CA
Ruminate Happenings, worldwide
2019 Art Auction, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA 2018 Rising Together, benefiting Tahirih Justice Center, San Francisco, CA 2016 The Glass and Ceramics Show, Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA
2015 Gathering Under the Banyan Tree, benefiting Orange County Asian and Pacific Islander Community Alliance (OCAPICA), Costa Mesa, CA
Memories in the Making, benefiting the Alzheimer's Association of Orange County, Irvine, CA
2014 Full Squad Art Exhibit to benefit the Warriors Community Foundation, hosted by the Golden State Warriors, Oracle Arena, Oakland, CA
2013 Incognito, Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL
2012 Hearts in San Francisco, AT&T Park, San Francisco; traveled to Union Square, San Francisco; traveled to Wells Fargo (collection of Wells Fargo), San Francisco, CA
Viet Hope 10th Anniversary Benefit, Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA
Trùng Duong: The Convergence of Rivers, San Jose Center for the Performing Arts, San José, CA
Lighting the Way for Justice, Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach 37th Anniversary Celebration, St. Mary’s Cathedral, San Francisco, CA
Night of the Apsara, benefiting Angkor Hospital for Children, Villa Kirirom, Washington D.C.
Friends Without a Border 10th Annual Gala, Espace, New York, NY
2011 For Life: Paintings by Trinh Mai, a.Muse Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Passage to Angkor: Friends Without a Border 2nd Annual Los Angeles Gala, The Roosevelt Hotel, Los Ángeles, CA
Bay Area Artists for Japan, Mina Dresden Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Healdsburg Fire Department’s Annual Fundraiser, Healdsburg, CA
Fall into the Arts, benefiting Drawbridge and Education Through Music, SB Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2009 1st Annual Art Benefit for the Bill Wilson Center, San José, CA
4th Annual Art Benefit for the Janet Pomeroy Center, San Francisco, CA
Animal Refuge Center Charity Auction, Sanibel Harbor Resort, Sanibel, FL
2008 Gulf Shore Playhouse Charity Golf Classic, Angelinas's, Naples, FL; traveled to Dillard’s, Naples, FL
Collier County Fire Department's 3rd Annual Winter Ball, The Ritz Carlton, Naples, FL
5th Annual Royal Palm Winter Auction, Royal Palm Academy, Naples, FL
2006 A Light of Hope, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA
2004 Humanity Through Art: Traces of the Hundred Viets, Jennifer & Philip DiNapoli Gallery, San José, CA
Collaborative and Relief Projects
2023 We Survived and Here We Are, in partnership with United Cambodian Community for the Cambodian American Oral History + Narrative Project, Long Beach, CA 2022-2023 Visual accompaniment for 2022-2023 Winter Concert Series for Long Beach Chorale & Orchestra, Long Beach, CA Shadows Cast upon Waters, visual accompaniment for Long Beach Chorale & Orchestra’s Celebrating Oceans concert, Aquarium of the Pacific, Long Beach, CA Hope, Grace, Rebirth, Renewal, for Long Beach Chorale & Orchestra’s Fauré Requiem concert, First Presbyterian Church, Long Beach, CA Glory Be, visual accompaniment for Long Beach Chorale & Orchestra’s Gloria! concert, First Presbyterian Church, Long Beach, CA 2022 As One Born Among You, collaboration with Binh Danh and community members who have stood with the us 2020 The Grief Deck, collaboration with Artists’ Literacies Institute, New York City Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (NYCVOAD), National Hospice Cooperative, and Ohio’s Hospice to mobilize artists and grief workers to create a card deck toolkit to help millions process loss in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic 2019 That We Should Be Heirs, collaboration with San Diego Art Institute, Peacemakers of International Rescue Committee, students from Tijuana, partnering organizations, and the public, an interactive, multi-voiced, art installation containing handwritten letters about fear and how we overcome it, San Diego, CA; traveled to the University of Washington, engaging students and faculty from diverse disciplines, community elders of Mount Baker Village, and residents of Washington State Correctional Facility for Women (in partnership with F.I.G.H.T.; traveled to Harvard University, engaging the Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights, students and faculty of the Department of History & Literature, Cambridge, MA; traveled to Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts Ruminate Happenings, collaboration with Ruminate Magazine, readers, and artists worldwide, Fort Collins, CO 2018 Me Too/Vietnamese Bodies, collaboration poetic performance with visual art component with She Who Has No Master/s, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA; traveled to the International Hotel, San Francisco, CA We Come to Bring Forth Light, collaboration with Portland Children's Museum and Living School of Art, Portland, OR 2017 A Time to Heal, socially engaging fine art collaboration with Photographer J. Grant Brittain and war veterans Sponsored in partnership by Oceanside Museum of Art and MiraCosta College, Oceanside, CA Isolation, visual arrangement for operatic composition by P.Q. Phan, Musco Center for the Arts, Chapman University, Orange, CA
Take Flight, collaboration with Gensler Architecture for site-specific installation for Newkirk Alumni Center, University of Irvine, California.
Resound, Roots, Revitalize Our Words, a poetic and musical collaboration with Heninger Village, Kimberly Alidio, and Grand Central Art Center
2016 Treble / Tremble, a collaboration in movement and sound with Australian sound artist Luke Jaaniste, Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA Installation for Pacific Symphony's Lantern Festival, in collaboration with Heninger Village Art Studio, the Irvine Chinese School, and the
Người Việt Senior Art Class of the Bowers Museum Treasures Program, Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall, Costa Mesa, CA
2015 VIETNAMESE FOCUS: Generations of Stories, Old Orange County Courthouse Museum, Santa Ana, CA
In partnership with the University of California, Irvine (VAOHP) and Orange County Parks I Breathe With You, in collaboration with Kelly Clark, Augusta Savage Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 1997 Corazón, organized by St. Augustine’s Catholic Church, Pleasanton, CA. Building homes for underprivileged families in Tijuana, México.
1996 Giving and Living, organized by Pleasanton Presbyterian Church, Pleasanton, CA. Building irrigation systems for impoverished neighborhoods in Rosarito, México.
Conversations, Conferences, Lectures, and Workshops
2023 The Art and Science of Jenny’s Float, joint lecture with Earth Scientist & Robotics Engineer Tom O’Reilly, Friends of Huế Foundation Children’s Shelter, Huế, Việt Nam
Hidden Heritages: In Word and in Deed, San José Museum of Art, San José, CA Trinh Mai in Conversation with Aleesa P. Alexander, Keynote panelist for Race and the Speculative Conference, Stanford University, CA Fearless, for the Long Beach College Promise Female Leadership Summit, Long Beach Community College, Long Beach, CA Portraits of Past, Living Arts Long Beach, United Cambodian Community, Long Beach, CA Culture Chat: Vietnam, Michelle Obama Library, Long Beach, CA 2022 Memory as Medium, Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, Stanford University, CA Painting Poetry, for the Long Beach Poet Laureate Program, Billie Jean King Library, Long Beach, CA Fear not., sponsored by Vietnamese American Cultural Studies, Institute of Diversity in the Arts, and the Center for Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity, Stanford University, Stanford, CA Understory: as retold by Trinh Mai & Birds, Department of Art and Art History, San José State University, San José, CA Painting and Poetry as a Language of Peace Leadership in Order to Transcend Global Violence, Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA Artist Talk and Workshop with Trinh Mai, presented by WeRise LA + Arts Council for Long Beach, Green Pines Creative Collective, Long Beach, CA Memories of Tomorrow’s Sunrise, Ronald H. Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Things Hidden, Mỹ Việt Story Slam, Vietnamese Boat People Podcast, nationwide Living (Art) History, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA For the ones we love, United Cambodian Community, Long Beach, CA 2021 Flesh of my Flesh, a conversation with Crystal Kwok on 90.1 KTUH’s KwokTalk, Honolulu, HI Slide Slam 2021, Asian American Women Arts Association (AAWAA) in partnership with the Diasporic Vietnamese Artist Network (DVAN), Bay Area, CA Hostile Terrain: An Exhibition Tour with Trinh Mai and Sanctuary City Project, Gallery 51, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, North Adams, MA Things Hidden: In the Studio with Trinh Mai, Vietnamese American Society of Creative Arts & Music, Bloomington, ID Cemetery Talks: Race and Place, PlacemakingUS, Portland, OR | Nationwide Ca Dao Journey | Poetry | Life, participating poet, San José Museum of Art, San José, CA 2020 Creative Minds: Binh Danh and Trinh Mai, San José Museum of Art, San José, CA Cyanotype Workshop, co-facilitated with Binh Danh, for Hidden Heritages, San José, CA Freedom from Fear, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Preserving Memories, co-facilitated with Binh Danh, San José Museum of Art, San José, CA Unknown into Known, The Smith Renaissance Society, University of California Santa Cruz, CA Hostile Terrain and Fertile Soil, a lecture/workshop/studio series, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, North Adams, MA That We Should Be Heirs, Diegueño Middle School, Encinitas, CA 2019 Mapping the Journey, as part of Hidden Heritages, Vietnamese American Community Center, San José, CA Strong. Current. Windward School, Los Angeles, CA That We Should Be Heirs: Letting Go and Reclaiming Our Inherited Strengths, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Word Becomes Flesh: A Conversation with Trinh Mai, as part of Conversations of Asia America: A Speaker Series on Asian American Creative and Scholarly Work, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Memory and Place, as part of the Walker-Ames Fellowship, University of Washington, Seattle, WA Home and Heritage, for the International Rescue Committee Peacemakers, El Cajon Valley High School, San Diego, CA Ancestral Journeys, Euphrat Museum of Art, Cupertino, CA Embedding engagement genes into our institutional DNA, for the New California Arts Foundation, Segerstrom Center for the Arts, Costa Mesa, CA 2018 Harvest: Collecting Narratives of Past through Art, Art Object Gallery, San José, CA Preparing Artist Portfolios, Art Object Gallery, San José, CA Art: A Passage to Unearthing History, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR Inspiration, Insight, and Inheritance, Coastline Art Gallery, Newport Beach, CA We Are Living History, Living School of Art, Portland, OR
Me Too/Vietnamese Bodies, collaborative poetic performance with visual art component with She Who Has No Master/s, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA; traveled to the International Hotel, San Francisco, CA 2017 A Time to Heal: Art as Catharsis, Oceanside Museum of Art and MiraCosta College, Oceanside, CA Culture and Creativity: Retelling History Through Artistic Expression, California State University, Fullerton Creating Art with Your Stories: Artmaking Workshop with Trinh Mai, Orange County & Southeast Asian Archive Center, University of California, Irvine
Trinh Mai: An Artist's Vietnamese American Journey, Pasadena Central Library, Pasadena, CA
Archival Use in Research + Art, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Ángeles Artist Talk with Trinh Mai: Documenting Life and War, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA
Where Your Curiosity Can Take You, Keynote address for Southeast Asian Success Youth Conference, University of California, Irvine
A Conversation with Vietnamese American Artist Trinh Mai, University of California, San Diego
Excavating Our History: Visual Art as a Method for Research, University of California, Los Ángeles
We Are Here: Vietnamese American Identity and Memory, sponsored by UC Irvine as part of Homescapes/Warscapes 25/30, Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA
2016 Independent Visions: Sharing our Histories: Visual Art as Storytelling, California State University, Los Ángeles
Art as a Medium in the Search for History & Healing, University of California, Irvine
Oral History as Transnational Method & Praxis, Association of Asian American Studies Conference, Miami, FL
Critical Dialogues Beyond Borders, University of California, Riverside
Sharing our Histories: Visual Art as Storytelling, University of California, Irvine
2015 Asian American Women's Literature & Art, San Francisco State University
Search and Discover, Intersection for the Arts in partnership with DVAN, San Francisco, CA
2014 Art & Influence, with Thai Composer Narong Prangcharoen as part of Painting Music, South Coast Chinese Cultural Association, Irvine, CA
2012 California and Beyond: Conversations with Vietnamese American Artists, Filmmakers & Writers, Stanford University
Trùng Duong: The Convergence of Rivers, San Jose Center for Performing Arts, San José, CA
2001 Arise: New Poetry by Trinh Mai, San José State University
Professional Affiliations
2022 - Present Co-creative Director, Áo Dài Festival VI, San José City Hall, San José, CA 2020 - Present Partner for Community Outreach and Editor, Friends of Huế Foundation, San José, CA 2019 - Present Exhibitions and Collections Advisory Committee Member, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA
Visual Art Instructor, engAGE, southern California
2015 - Present Curator and Collaborator for Community Arts Participation, Pacific Symphony, Costa Mesa, CA 2023 Curator, WPA: Contemporary Interpretations, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA 2020 - 2021 Senior Fellow, The Smith Society, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 2018 - 2020 Visual Arts Instructor, arts-x-press, organized by the Pacific Symphony, Concordia University, Irvine, CA 2012 - 2018 Master Teaching Artist, Bowers Museum, Santa Ana, CA (Watch documentary teaser) 2014 - 2018 Artist Advisory Board Member, The Artist Odyssey, Worldwide 2017 - 2018 Judge, Imaginology, Orange County Fair Exhibition, Costa Mesa, CA 2015 - 2016 Visual Art & Exhibition Designer, VIETNAMESE FOCUS: Generations of Stories, a traveling exhibition, University of California, Irvine 2015 Research Associate, Vietnamese American Oral History Project, University of California, Irvine
Director of Photography, Honoring Life: The Work of Trinh Mai, produced by The Artist Odyssey
Peer Reviewer, Journal of Southeast Asian American Education & Advancement, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 2014 - 2015 Advisor for Visual Arts Development, Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network, San Francisco, CA
2014 Course Designer, Painting Music, in partnership with the Pacific Symphony and the Bowers Museum, Irvine, CA
Consultant for the Arts, Healthy Asian Pacific Islander Youth Empowerment Program, California State University, Fullerton, CA
Co-Director & Curator, Children's Moon Festival, Vietnamese American Arts & Letters Association, Santa Ana, CA
2013 Judge, VSA Rose Pageant, University of California, Irvine 2012 Gallery Representative, The District Art Gallery, Tustin, CA Curator, Trùng Duong: The Convergence of Rivers, San José Center for Performing Arts, San José, CA
Co-curator, U&R Magazine’s Grand Opening of House of Art @ House of Blues, House of Blues, Anaheim, CA Judge, Children's Moon Festival, presented by the Vietnamese American Arts & Letters Association, Westminster, CA
2008 Pottery Instructor, Kilns N’ Clay Pottery Studio, Naples, FL
2007 – 2008 Associate Director and Curator, Sona Gallery, Naples, FL Private Painting Instructor, Naples, FL
2006 Mural Assistant, Was, Is Not, and is To Come, a site-specific mural by Darren Waterston, Institute of Contemporary Art, San José, CA
2004 – 2006 Art Instructor and Residential Counselor, Unity Care Group, San José, CA
2001 – 2003 Art Instructor and Counselor, Girl Scouts of Santa Clara County, San José, CA
2001 Co-Choreographer and Dancer, Spartan Angels Hip Hop Ensemble, for SJSU Men's Basketball half-time performances, San José State University 1988 Illustrator, Mustang Magazine, Valley View Elementary School, Pleasanton, CA (We all have our start somewhere! :)
Awards and Honors
2023 Inaugural Muralist for new wing of Tom Bradley International Terminal, Los Ángeles International Airport, in partnership with Los Ángeles World Airports, CA The Philip and Muriel Berman Grant for Artists, Los Angeles, CA, in partnership with 18th Street Art Center, Los Angeles, CA; and MRH Fund, Southern California 2022 Third Place Award, Oceanside Museum of Art 2022 Biennial, Oceanside, CA Grant for Arts Leadership, Core Contributors Group, Los Angeles, CA 2021 Atomic Theory 7: Poems to my Wife and God voted as among the Best Books of Locally Writ in 2020, Spokesman-Review, Spokane, WA Women’s Studio Workshop Grant, Rosendale, NY 2020 Elson Family Arts Grant, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA We Create Us Grant, Arts Council for Long Beach, Long Beach, CA Community Engagement Grant, Community Engagement, Newport Beach, CA 2017 War Wounds site-specific installation at Grand Central Art Center voted as one of 10 Best Art Shows in 2017, OC Weekly, Orange County, CA 2016 Audience Choice Award for Best Short Film, Honoring Life: The Work of Trinh Mai, Viet Film Festival, Orange, CA
Illuminations Grant, University of California, Irvine, CA Asians United to Raise Awareness - Association of Asian American Studies Award, Miami, FL
2014 Panelists' Selection, Artist Alliance Quarterly Exchange, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA
2012 Hearts in San Francisco, commissioned by the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation to create a public art piece for the
9th Annual Hearts in San Francisco project
2010 Winning Artist, Asian Heritage Street Celebration Poster Art Contest, San Francisco, CA
Artwork displayed on advertisements on MUNI buses (interior and exterior), BART stations, bus stops, and billboards
2008 Honorable Mention, Still Life: Further than Fruits and Flowers, Lauritzen-Rush Gallery, Marco Island, FL
2004 President’s Scholar Award, San José State University
2003 Dean’s Scholar Award, San José State University
2002 1st Place, Wave's Poetry Slam, San José, CA
2001 1st Award, Poets Unite, San Jose State University, San José, CA
1996 3rd Award, Alameda County Fair Art Exhibition, Pleasanton, CA (My very first show. Thank you, Ms. Casey! :)
1988 1st Place, Mrs. Black’s 5th Grade Spelling Bee, Valley View Elementary School, Pleasanton, CA (A huge confidence-booster in my young life :)
Fellowships and Residencies
2023 - Present California Creative Corps Fellowship, funded by California Arts Council + Arts Council of Long Beach, partnering with Khmer Girls in Action, Long Beach, CA 2022 - Present Artist-in-Residence, Long Beach Chorale & Chamber Orchestra, Long Beach, CA 2019 - 2023 Creative California Communities for Hidden Heritages, San José Museum of Art + Chopsticks Alley + San José Office of Cultural Affairs, San José, CA 2021 - 2022 Long Beach Professional Artist Fellowship, Arts Council for Long Beach, Long Beach, CA 2022 Center for Global Engagement Fellowship, Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA 2020 - 2021 Hostile Terrain, Berkshire Cultural Resource Center, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, North Adams, MA 2019 Walker-Ames Guest Scholar Fellowship, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 2016 - 2018 Artist-in-Residence, Community Engagement in partnership with Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA
2016 AHA Creative Project Grant, Newport Beach, CA
2012 - 2015 Artist-in-Residence, Vietnamese American Oral History Project, Department of Asian American Studies, University of California, Irvine, CA
2015 Artist-in-Residence, Intersection for the Arts In partnership with DVAN, San Francisco, CA
2014 Artist-in-Residence, The Artist Odyssey Studios, Encinitas, CA
2012 Artist-in-Residence, The District Art Gallery, Tustin, CA
2011 Artist-in-Residence, Vietnamese American Arts & Letters Association, Santa Ana, CA
2007 - 2008 Artist-in-Residence, SONA Gallery, Naples, FL
Representation
2022 - 2023 Oceanside Museum of Art, Museum Store, Oceanside, CA 2015 - 2017 The Artist Odyssey Galleries + Studios, Del Mar, CA 2015 - 2016 Ligne Roset, San Francisco, CA 2009 - 2012 Pacific Place, San Francisco, CA 2012 The District Art Gallery, Tustin, CA 2009 - 2011 Roche Bobois, San Francisco, CA 2011 Judith Liegeois Designs, Naples, FL 2006 - 2008 SONA Gallery, Naples, FL ROOM Interior Philosophy, Naples, FL 2006 - 2007 Le Côté Français, Naples, FL
Public Collections
2024 2017
2016
2015 2013
2008
2007
2006
2002
Housing California, Sacramento, CA
Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA
Newkirk Alumni Center, University of California, Irvine
Rocketship Education, Rising Stars Academy, San José, CA Vietnamese American Oral History Project, University of California, Irvine Wells Fargo Bank, San Francisco, CA
Bayshore Coffee Company, Naples, FL
John Waggoner Gallery, Naples, FL
Miromar Lakes Beach and Golf Resort, Estero, FL
Frank Shamrock Martial Arts Academy, San José, CA
Tree of Life Church, Naples, FL
Selected Private Collections
2023
J. Wang, San Francisco, CA
The A.G. Family, Alamo, CA
2022
R. Workman, Harlem, NY
Q. Tran, Redwood City, CA
J. and K. Belle, Sacramento, CA
L. Dinh, San Jose, CA
2021
J. Sun, Pittsburg, PA
G. Hill, Oceanside, CA
P. and K.G., Long Beach, CA
T. and J.C., Long Beach, CA
2020
A. Hitpas, Fort Collins, CO
A. Maydew, Aurora, CO
J. Fueston, Longmont, CO
2019
S. and J. Ferch, Spokane, WA A. Nguyen, San José, CA
D. Doan and C. Le, San José, CA
L. Martin, Fort Collins, CO
S. Bianchi, Livermore, CO
L. Neff, Westmont, IL
M. McGeever, Auckland, New Zealand
2018
U. R., Marina Del Rey, CA
T. Cron, San José, CA
Dr. J. Hiura, Los Gatos, CA H. X. and T. T. Lamm, San José, CA
H. L., St. Louis, MO
C. L., Rolesville, NC
2017
A. Zeleznikar, Oceanside, CA
2016
P.Q. Phan and Anvi Hoang, Bloomington, IN
2015
L. Gliha, Los Angeles, CA
S. and G. Grover, Laguna Hills, CA
B. Parmeter, Irvine, CA
J. and I. Brito, Garden Grove, CA
Maria and Camila Martinez, San Gabriel, CA
2014
Joe and Nicole Lacob, Atherton, CA
Robert and Taryn Lamm, Portola Valley, CA
Thuong and Kim Anh Nguyen, Santa Ana, CA
2013
M. and A. W., Laguna Beach, CA
Judith A. Kaluzny, Fullerton, CA
B. and G. Ridley, Huntington Beach, CA
DeAnna Reposa, Newport Beach, CA
Partrick Probst and Jocelyn Wong, Charlotte, NC
Phuong Le, Westminster, CA
2012
Kelly and Helen Suhr, San Francisco, CA
Lillian Huynh, Irvine, CA
Tuyet Nhung Truong, Orange, CA
Diana Demetrulias, Belmont, CA
Gary and Mei Ching Glass, Lake Forest, CA
Michael and Nancy Le, Irvine, CA
V. Bryand, San José, CA
2011
B. Stamos, San Francisco, CA
B. and E. Stewart, Venice, CA
C. Hest, New York, NY
D. and T. Tran, Santa Barbara, CA
G. Schoeun, West Hollywood, CA
J. Camunas, New York, NY
M. Prak, Chicago, IL
P. Saunders, San Francisco, CA
R. Duryee, San Francisco, CA
S. Rentaria, San Francisco, CA
Tin Do, San Francisco, CA
W. and M. TsaiKho, San José, CA
2010
Jesus and Blanca Hernandez, San José, CA
John and Monique Saiya, Castro Valley, CA
Allison Birdsall, Campbell, CA
M. Kreis, Seattle, WA
Tai and Kristi Thach, Carlsbad, CA
2010
Jesus and Blanca Hernandez, San José, CA
John and Monique Saiya, Castro Valley, CA
Allison Birdsall, Campbell, CA
M. Kreis, Seattle, WA
Tai and Kristi Thach, Carlsbad, CA
2009
J. Lee, San Jose, CA
K. and C. Christensen, San Francisco, CA
M. Omran, San Francisco, CA
V. Gotingco, San Ramon, CA
2008
A. Tranter, San Diego, CA
C. and D. Hall, Mount Vernon, ME
D. Williams, Naples, FL
D. and E. Williams, Naples, FL
C. and S. Ausschnitt, Naples, FL
D. Masseria, Naples, FL
G. Workman, Naples, FL
J. and C. Keery, Marco Island, FL
J. Ross, Naples, FL
M. and Z. Drew, New York, NY
M. Cassell, Naples, FL
N. Hannigan, Coacachi, Ecuador
2007
A. Waggoner, Naples, FL
A. Chappell, Naples, FL
G. Shanabarger, Naples, FL
C. Donenfeld, Naples, FL
C. Whitely, Hana, HI
D. and J. Black, Ontario, Canada
D. Angus, Naples, FL
R. Gomez, Naples, FL
S. Ferner, Gilroy, CA
V. and A. Colonna, Wilkes Barre, PA
2006
D. and J. Rarrick, Dallas, TX
J. Carrillo, San José, CA
L. and C. Lam, Naples, FL
L. Smith, Naples, FL
M. Newhouse, Naples, FL
P. and J. Marani, Naples, FL
2004
Paul Nakada and Christine Hoang, San Francisco, CA
H. Shah, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Jenny Do, San Jose, CA
Hoai Phan, Huntington Beach, CA
2003
B. and K. Clark, Seattle, WA
C. Phan, Huntington Beach, CA
H. Phan, Westminster, CA
Hien Phan, Huntington Beach, CA
L. Huong and H. Phan, Irvine, CA
N. and L. Langston, San José, CA
V. Phan, Westminster, CA
2002
H. and H. Tran, Westminster, CA
H. Phan, Huntington Beach, CA
T. and H. Diep, Huntington Beach, CA
2001
D. Tran and D. Melton, Seattle, WA
Hieu and Huy Mai, San José, CA
Kim Tran, Huntington Beach, CA
*Banner from a still from Honoring Life: The Work of Trinh Mai