MyLoan Dinh
Heritage: Vietnamese
MyLoan Dinh is a Vietnamese American multidisciplinary artist. She explores the porous boundary between personal and collective history by deconstructing materials and images to (re)construct personal experiences and narratives within the greater cultural context of which she is a part.
Drawing from the shuffling, cross-cultural entanglements and everyday manifestations of identity, memory, and displacement, she works through diverse media, including painting, sculpture, installation, and performance. Her story as a refugee and immigrant is often a starting point.
She weaves intimate stories using photographs, text, video, sound, imagery with southeast Asian and western symbols, and uses cultural code-shifting as a means of expression. Through her investigations into material culture, she frequently utilize everyday objects that not only hold familial meaning, but have global associations with class, race, gender, and power.
All images © Deepa Gopinath
“Over time, I’ve tried to learn how to hold the specificity of my experience in tension with a desire to connect with the more universal dimensions of human experience.”