FotoFocus Welcomes Vietnamese-American Artist An-My Lê for Special Lecture

Friday, February 7, 2025

FotoFocus, a Cincinnati-based nonprofit dedicated to lens-based art, welcomes Vietnamese-American photographer, filmmaker, and author An-My Lê as the latest speaker in its Lecture and Visiting Artist Series. The free public talk will take place at the Cincinnati Art Museum’s Fath Auditorium on Thursday, March 6 at 6:30 p.m.

This event follows the success of the 2024 FotoFocus Biennial, the organization’s largest to date, featuring 107 projects and attracting over 300,000 attendees last fall.

Lê, known for her evocative depictions of war, landscape, and displacement, has spent 30 years exploring the intersections of human experience and political realities. Her work has been the focus of major museum exhibitions, including Between Two Rivers/Giữa hai giòng sông/Entre deux rivières (2023–2024) at the Museum of Modern Art, which presented three decades of photography alongside video, textile, and sculpture. Another key exhibition, On Contested Terrain (2020–2021), debuted at the Carnegie Museum of Art before traveling to the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Amon Carter Museum.

Currently, Lê’s solo exhibition Dark Star/Grey Wolf is on view at Marian Goodman Gallery in New York through February 22, 2025. This cinematic presentation examines the contradictions within the American landscape, balancing manifestation and the sublime.

FotoFocus Artistic Director and Curator Kevin Moore said, “An-My Lê is a singular voice in photography. Her work combines personal history with geo-politics in a brave, elegant and thoughtful way.”

“An-My Lê’s robust body of work teaches us how to look at conflict and contemplate the interwoven threads of the personal and the historical, the human and the political. We are honored to have the opportunity to think through and beyond our historical moment with Lê during this year’s Lecture and Visiting Artist Series,” said FotoFocus Executive Director Katherine Ryckman Siegwarth.