An-My Lê Vietnamese-American Photographer to Present the 2025 FotoFocus Spring Lecture
Cincinnati-based nonprofit arts organization and champion of lens-based art, FotoFocus is pleased to announce Vietnamese-American photographer, filmmaker, and author An-My Lê as the latest speaker in its Lecture and Visiting Artist Series. The talk, which is free and open to the public, will take place at the Cincinnati Art Museum, Fath Auditorium on Thursday, March 6 at 6:30 pm. This event comes on the heels of a successful 2024 FotoFocus Biennial, the largest to date for the organization. Featuring 107 projects, the Biennial welcomed more than 300,000 attendees last fall.
Known for her evocative imagery of war, landscape, and displacement, throughout her 30-year career, Lê has consistently turned her lens towards exploring the intersections of human experience and political realities. In recent years, Lê’s work was the center of two important museum exhibitions: Between Two Rivers/Giữa hai giòng sông/Entre deux rivières (2023–2024), her major retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, which featured photographs from the last three decades as well as explorations of other mediums such as video, textile, and sculpture, and On Contested Terrain (2020–2021) at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, which traveled to the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Amon Carter Museum.
Lê has a solo exhibition of two new bodies of work, Dark Star/Grey Wolf, on view at Marian Goodman Gallery in New York through February 22, 2025. The cinematic presentation explores the contradictions within the American landscape of manifestation and the sublime.
“An-My Lê is a singular voice in photography. Her work combines personal history with geo-politics in a brave, elegant and thoughtful way.”
Kevin Moore, FotoFocus Artistic Director and Curator
“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.”
Katherine Ryckman Siegwarth, FotoFocus Executive Director
The event is free and open to the public but registration is requested. Those interested can register here. For more information, please visit fotofocus.org. Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) will be provided. Assistive Listening Devices are available upon request. For questions regarding accessibility accommodations at FotoFocus events, please contact info@fotofocus.org.
FotoFocus brings photography and lens-based art programming to Cincinnati year-round. Previous speakers in the FotoFocus Lecture and Visiting Artist Series have included: Doug Aitken, Thomas Demand, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Roe Ethridge, Larry Fink, Sky Hopinka, Zoe Leonard, Laurie Simmons, Alec Soth, William Wegman, and Roger Ross Williams.