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Maryland, 1980 #2, 2001
Toned gelatin silver print, 20x24"
Handwriting on image: Loss Changes Everything






Florida 1979, 2001
Toned gelatin silver print, 24x20"
Handwriting on image: (love) (miss) (you) a lot






Vuon Cay Cao Su II, (rubber plantation), 2002
Toned gelatin silver print with stitching, 20x16"
Handwriting on image: Then came the Americans


R. Hong-An Truong
Born: 1976
Resides: Brooklyn, NY and Irvine, CA

Heritage:
Vietnamese

Selected Exhibitions:
Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, California, 2007
Oakland University Art Gallery, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, 2007
University Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine, CA, 2007
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA, 2006
UC Santa Cruz Film and Video Festival, Santa Cruz, CA 2006
LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art), Los Angeles, CA 2006
Catalyst Gallery, UC Irvine, CA 2006
Raid Projects Gallery, The Brewery, Los Angeles, CA 2006
Transom Gallery, Durham, NC 2005
Installation in historic Chatham Label Mill, Pittsboro, NC 2004
Emerging Artists Retrospective, Allenton Gallery, Durham, NC 2004
Gaddy-Hamrick Art Center, Meredith College, Raleigh, NC 2003
Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY 2003
International Center for Photography (online), New York, NY 2003
En Foco at Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College, NY 2002
Chambers Gallery, Chelsea, New York, NY 2002
Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC, 2002
Porch Gallery, Center for Documentary Studies, Durham, NC 2000


Education:
Bachelor of Arts, English literature/photography minor, University of Arizona, summa cum laude, 1998
Master of Fine Arts, Studio Art, University of California at Irvine, expected graduation 2008


Awards:
University of California Research and Travel Grant, 2007
University of California Research and Travel Grant, 2006
Davis-Putter Grant, 2005
American Association of University Women Educational Foundation, Career Development Grant, 2005
California Graduate Fellowship, University of California, Irvine, 2005
Durham Arts Council Emerging Artist Grant, Durham, NC, 2004
Southeastern Camera Award and Best of Competition Award, 2003
Durham Arts Council Emerging Artist Grant, Durham, NC, 2001
En Foco New Works Photography Award, Bronx, NY, 2001


Residencies:
Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY 2002
Visual Studies Workshop, SUNY Rochester, NY 2002


Publications:
“Mangoes and Sugarcane,” in Under Her Skin: How Girls Experience Race in America, edited by Pooja Makhijani, 2004
“Putting Poetry Where His Mouth Is,” article in Independent Weekly, June 23-29, 2004, Durham, North Carolina
PQ#87, Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY, 2003
Nueva Luz Photographic Journal, Bronx, New York, 2003


 

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