EDUCATION
1993 - 94 School of Arts and Design, University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
1990 - 92 Studio Art - College of Arts & Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2024 - Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship National nominee
2023 - Arts & Science Council Inaugural Founders Grant, Charlotte, NC
2022 - Arts & Science Council Artist Support Grant, Charlotte, NC
2022 - Artfields Second Place Jury Prize Winner, Lake City SC
2020 - Arts & Science Council Creative Renewal Fellowship, Charlotte, NC
2020 - Arts & Science Council Regional Artist Project Grant, Charlotte, NC
2019 - Knight Foundation Celebrate Charlotte Arts Grant (awarded with Moving Poets)
2019 - Playing For Others 2019 Change Makers Honoree, Charlotte
2019 - Reemprise Fund (awarded with Moving Poets)
2018 - Arts & Science Council Cultural Vision Grant (awarded with Moving Poets)
2016 - Community Impact Grant - Partnership for Democracy, Berlin (awarded with Moving Poets Berlin)
2016 - Arts & Science Council Regional Artist Project Grant, Charlotte, NC
2013 - Artist Grant - Department of Arts and Culture, Berlin Treptow-Köpenick
2012 - Artist Project Grant - Department of Arts and Culture, Berlin Treptow-Köpenick
1993 - Jonathan E. Sharpe Art Award Scholarship - UNC Chapel Hill
SELECTED PROJECTS AND EXHIBITIONS
Solo exhibitions
Unsettled Provisions, Ogden Contemporary Arts, Ogden, Utah (forthcoming Nov 2023 - Jan 2024)
Mixed Blessings, Elder Gallery of Contemporary Art, Charlotte, NC, 2022
Constellations, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC, 2021
Fluid, Durham Arts Council, Durham, NC, 2017
Mother's Milk, MoBe - center for arts, Berlin, 2012
Group exhibitions
Current/Recent
Strike Fast, Dance Lightly: Artists on Boxing, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida (October 26, 2024 - March 9, 2025)
Coined in the South: 2024 Biennial, Mint Museum of Art, Uptown, Charlotte, NC (Dec 14, 2024 - April 27, 2025)
HOA TAY (Flower Hands), Southern Artists of the Vietnamese Diaspora, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA (March 15 - September 21, 2025)
2024
VOICES OF DEMOCRACY: Exploring the Ideal, Sarah Belk Gambrell Center for the Arts and Civic Engagement, Queens University
Worldfest: 10th Anniversary exhibition, NOVILLA, Berlin, Germany
Encounters, McColl Center for Art, Charlotte, NC (Feb 2024)
Out of Place, Imago Mundi / Benetton Foundation, Fondazione Imago Mundi / Gallerie delle Prigioni, Treviso, Italy (March 8 - June, 2024)
Taking Root, 701 Center of Contemporary Art, Colombia, SC
ArtFields, Lake City, SC
2023
Encounters, Transatlantic Exhibition of Art in the SouthEast - Biennial, traveling exhibition, NC Zeitgeist Foundation, Plüschow - Rostock - Berlin, Germany
Ladies to the Front - group exhibition, Parlor Gallery, NJ
Present Moments: Contemporary Asian Artists Perspectives, invitational group exhibition, Berlin Literary Action &
Capital Cultural Fund, Galerie in der Novilla, Berlin, Germany
Southern Voices/Global Visions - invitational group exhibition, presented by ArtFields Collective and South Arts, TRAX Visual Arts Center, The ROB, Jones Carter Gallery, Crossroads Gallery (4 venues), Lake City, SC
NC Artists Exhibition - juried group exhibition, Contemporary Arts Museum, Raleigh, NC
2022
Assembly 2022: Time and Attention - Biennale, Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, Washington DC
Nature Morte, Rowe Art Gallery, University of North Carolina Charlotte, NC
Not in Repose, Good Year Arts, Charlotte, NC
Continuing Conversations, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
ArtFields - Year Ten Art Festival, Lake City, SC
2021
Inspiration to Action: An Art Tribute to Muhammad Ali, group exhibition, Muhammad Ali Center, Louisville, KY
2020
Tarmac, McColl Center for Art + Innovation, Charlotte, NC
Spring to Action, online benefit exihibition, Monica King Contemporary, NYC
H20/20: Elemental Retribution, curated by Janelle Dunlap, Gallery C3 at Alchemy, Charlotte, NC
Thank you, No Thank you, curated by Catzie Vilayphonh, Asian Arts Initiative main gallery, Philadelphia, PA
HEAVEN Upside Down, Migration 5, Novilla - Center for Arts, Berlin, Germany
Black coal, red soil, yellow flames, Galerie in der Novilla, Berlin, Germany
2019
Santo Foundation 10th Anniversary Exhibition, curated by Gretchen Wagner, Arcade Contemporary Art Projects, St. Louis, Missouri
ABOLITION NOW!, Asian Arts Initiative main gallery, Philadelphia, PA
50/50, kunst projekt, Novilla - Center for Arts, Berlin, Germany
We See Heaven Upside Down, Elder Gallery of Contemporary Art, Charlotte, NC
2018
Feindbild, Novilla - Center for Arts, Berlin, Germany
The Art of Struggle, Elder Gallery of Contemporary Art, Charlotte, NC
2017
ELYSIUM - Art in the context of science & technology, curated by Lynn Battaglia & Bernd Vorjans, Novilla - Center for Arts, Berlin, Germany
We See Heaven Upside Down (Migration 3), Visual Arts headliner for Sensoria 2017, Ross Galleries 1&2, Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, NC
2016
The Archimedes Principle, curated by Ianessa Norris, Zentralstation Schöneweide, Berlin, Germany
Public Dialog (temporary installation), project sponsored by the Partnership for Democracy, Kunst am Spreeknie Arts Festival, Berlin, Germany
We See Heaven Upside Down, Migration 1 & 2, Novilla - Center for Arts, Berlin, Germany
2015
Generations: 40 Hues Between Black and White, curated by Stephen Anderson & Dinh Q. Le, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, California
Zentrale, Kunst am Spreeknie Arts Festival, Berlin
2014
Small Things, VinGallery, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Zentralstation, Zentrale Ausstellung zu Kunst am Spreeknie – Schöneweide Art Festival, curated by Dr. Peter Funken, Rathenau Hallen, Berlin
Nachspiel, video installation, Novilla - Center for Arts, Berlin, Germany
Macht Geld, Schalterraum -– Projektgalerie für Kunst, Arbeit und Geld, Berlin, Germany
Against the old spirit and new wars, The Urania - Center for Science and Humanities, Berlin
2013
SHOWDOWN, Hart Witzen Gallery, Charlotte, NC
Not a Drop, 47/49 Tanner Street, London, UK
biotop chanta, guest artist, Stadtgalerie, Chur, Switzerland
humanity, legs, untitled, MoBe- center for arts, Berlin, Germany
UmspannZENTRALE, curated by G11 Galerie Berlin for the Kunst am Spreeknie Arts Festival, Berlin, Germany
Beyond the Curve: Celebrating Women’s Vision, Civic & Cultural Arts Center. Pineville, NC
2011 - 1993
Delicate, MoBe - center for arts, Berlin
Contact, textile and performance art piece, Context Arts Center, Charlotte, NC
Kiss My Art, Graduate exhibition, Long Gallery, Wollongong, Australia
Sharpe Art Scholarship Recipients Show, Glass Gallery - Hanes Art Center, UNC, Chapel Hill, NC
CURATORIAL PROJECTS:
2028 (forthcoming) The Unlikely Southerner, group exhibition, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
2022 Seeing with the Heart, group exhibition, Booth Playhouse, Blumenthal Performing Arts Center
2021 Eyes Wide Open, group exhibition, Elder Gallery of Contemporary Art, Charlotte, NC
2015 – 2019 We See Heaven Upside Down, an international creative dialog, exhibitions and performance responding to the contemporary challenges of migration, displacement, identity and home. Produced by Moving Poets, Charlotte, Berlin
2018 Speakeasy, group exhibition, Hart-Witzen Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2004 Project Hometown, exhibition/project curator and mentoring/teaching artist, ASC McColl Award, Moving Poets multi-disciplinary year long program + multimedia exhibition working with 25 teen participants from underserved communities, Levine Museum of the New South, Charlotte, NC
SELECTED COMMUNITY AND OUTREACH
1997 - present, co-founder Moving Poets, Charlotte l Berlin, multi-disciplinary arts organization
2023 - current, McColl Center for Art, Board of Directors
2023 Arts & Culture Advisory/Steering committee for the City of Charlotte Arts and Culture Plan
2023 Guest Speaker, Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery, Weber State University, Utah
2021 Founder of Spiced Kinship, creative platform and free resource to build understanding and respect of diverse communities through the sharing of food, art and culture. Supported by the Arts and Science Council and the City of Charlotte.
2023 Blumenthal Artists in Theatres Fellow
2022 CIAF Charlotte International Arts Festival Fellow – Color Play performance installation at Blumenthal PAC
2022 Bridge Builder Conversations Podcast with David "Dae-Lee" Arrington
2021 Patchwork, public art community crosswalk street murals, Monroe Road Corridor, MoRA, ArtWalks CLT, City of Charlotte, Charlotte, NC
2020 The New Colossus, guest panelist, A Conversation with Director and Co-Writer Tim Robbins, Blumenthal Performing Arts Center
2019 CreativeMornings Charlotte, Global Theme: Inclusive, Guest Speaker
2018 Inseparable Stranger: Interactive Map Installation Workshop & Artist Talk
Sponsored by Davidson Refugee Support and Davidson College
2018 DREAM America: Arts Advocacy Forum, Guest Speaker
Sponsored by Queens University Stan Greenspon Center for Peace and Social Justice
2017 Sensoria Visual Arts headliner, Artist Talk, Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, NC
PROFESSIONAL SELECTED DANCE/THEATRE PROJECTS/STAGE WORKS
2006- 2000
Johannesburg Stories, Moving Poets (world premier), supported by the South African Department of Arts and Culture and the Knight Foundation, Spirit Square Arts Center, Charlotte, NC
Seven Deadly Sins, Moving Poets (world premier) in collaboration with M.Z. Ribalow & New River Dramatists, Hart-Witzen Gallery, Charlotte, NC
Island of Light, Moving Poets (world premier) invited by the Echo Foundation honoring Dr. Bernard Kouchner, founder of Doctors Without Borders, Providence Day, Charlotte, NC
Without Borders, Moving Poets (world premier) & Impact Fund Grant, Queens College, Charlotte, NC
The Echo, Moving Poets (world premier) invited by the Echo Foundation honoring Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, Spirit Square Arts Center, Charlotte, NC
Gateway South, Moving Poets (world premier) for documentary film on Maud Gatewood in conjunction with the Empowerment Project, Blumenthal Performing Arts Center, Charlotte, NC
De Profundis, Moving Poets (world premier), Blumenthal Performing Arts Center, Charlotte, NC
Faust, Moving Poets (world premier), Carolina Theater, Charlotte, NC
RESIDENCIES
2019 McColl Center for Art + Innovation, Charlotte, NC
2011- 12 Artist in Residence, MoBe center for arts, Berlin
2000 Little Italy Peninsula Arts Center - Studio Residency (the Bechtler Arts Foundation), Mount Holly, NC
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS & COLLECTIVES
Asian American Women Artists Association (AAWAA)
She Who Has No Master(s) Collective
BBK, Professional Association of Visual Artists Berlin
PUBLIC ART
2024 Corner Oasis, Women's Art Initiative, City of Rock Hill, Rock Hill, SC
2023 Ballantyne Park staircase, Charlotte, NC
2023 CONNECT, interactive gaming outdoor mural, Fifth Third Bank, Charlotte, NC
2022 After Shocks, Community Building Initiative, Victoria Yards, Seventh Street, Charlotte, NC
2022 New Beginnings, The Relatives On Ramp Resource Center, ArtPop Inspiration Project, Charlotte, NC
2022 Uptown CycleLink Bike Lane panels, City of Charlotte Urban Planning, Charlotte, NC
2021 Patchwork, Monroe Road Corridor, MoRA, ArtWalks CLT, City of Charlotte, NC
2020 Collective History, Knight Theater, Blumenthal Performing Arts Center, Charlotte, NC
2020 ArtPop Street Gallery, Class of 2020, Charlotte, NC
COLLECTIONS
Muhammad Ali Museum and Center, Louisville, KY
The Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
Lake City Arts Alliance - Artfields, Lake City, SC
Imago Mundi / Benetton Foundation, Fondazione Imago Mundi, Treviso, Italy
City of Eskişehir, City Hall, Turkey
Private collections in the United States and Europe including the Bechtler family collection and Princess Camilla of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Germany.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2023
Strike Fast, Dance Lightly: Artists on Boxing. Exhibition catalogue; essays by Sara Cochran, Eric Fischl, Robert Lipsyte, Jonathan Rider, Arden Sherman. The Church Sag Harbor, The Flag Foundation, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL.
2024
Tenorio, Rich. “Strike Fast, Dance Lightly: largest ever boxing exhibition links sport and art,” The Guardian, London, December 3.
Thomason, Julian. “The Norton's New Boxing Exhibition Packs An Unexpected Punch,” Boca Magazine, November 20.
Agboada, Jude. “To Make is to Heal, A Conversation with MyLoan Dinh,” Weber, The Contemporary West, Fall 2024, Volume 41, 21-27.
Southern Voices, Global Visions. Exhibition catalogue; essays by Amalia Amaki, PhD, Eleanor Heartney, Courtney McLellan. ArtFields and SouthArts, Lake City, SC.
2023
Rossiter, Shawn. “MyLoan Dinh Peels Back Layers of Identity in OCA Exhibition,”15 Bytes Art Magazine, Utah, November 23.
Rosen, Aaron. “MyLoan Dinh: Fragility & Resilience,” Image Journal, No.118, 32-37.
Herkey, Wendy. “The AAPI experience in Charlotte via art,” NPR, WFAE 90.7, Charlotte, NC, May 9
Assembly: Time and Attention. National Biennale. Exhibition catalogue; essay by Blair Murphy. Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, VA.
2022
Jenkins, Mark. “Assembly 2022,” Washington Post, Washington DC, December 9.
2020
En Route: MyLoan Dinh 2015-2020. Introduction by Jen Sudul Edwards PhD, essay by Janelle Dunlap, Arts & Science Council. Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC.