Dinh Q. Lê was born in Hà Tiên in South Vietnam. In the late 1970s, his family escaped by boat before eventually settling in the US where he completed his education. He is the co-founder of Sàn Art in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, where he has been based for the past decade. In 2010 he was awarded the Prince Claus Award for his outstanding contribution to cultural exchange. He creates conceptually based multimedia work that reflects on the complex history of Vietnam, issues of war, displaced populations, and the depiction of non-western cultures in western media. Lê’s work has been presented in many international group shows including Documenta 13 in Kassel (2012), the 2nd Singapore Biennale (2008), the Gwangju Biennial (2006), and the Venice Biennale (2003). He was the first Vietnamese artist to have a solo show at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2010). A major survey exhibition, Dinh Q. Lê: Memory for Tomorrow, was presented at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo in 2015. Lê’s work is included in numerous permanent collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, Ford Foundation (New York, NY), Portland Art Museum (Portland, OR), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco, CA), Queensland Gallery of Modern Art (Brisbane, Australia), and the Zabludowicz Collection (London, England).