San Jose–based artist Binh Danh, whose photography is featured in the exhibition "Hyphen American: Intersections of Identity" at Sheldon Museum of Art, will deliver an artist talk at the museum at 5:30 p.m. March 26.
Danh first came to the museum in 2011 as an artist-in-residence to create works for the solo exhibition "Viet Nam, Nebraska." In his talk, he will reflect on this transformational period in his career and the evolution of his artistic practice since then.
Danh reimagines traditional photographic techniques to explore the layered connections between history, identity and place. He is widely recognized for his contemporary daguerreotypes of national parks — striking works with mirrored surfaces that invite viewers of all backgrounds to see themselves reflected in the American landscape. Earlier in his career, Danh investigated the collective memory of war through chlorophyll printing, a process he pioneered in which photographic images are embedded in leaves via photosynthesis.
Danh’s work is held in the collections of major institutions, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, J. Paul Getty Museum, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, National Gallery of Art and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
He has been honored with numerous awards, including the William Collins Smith Auburn Award for Advancing American Art (2024) and the Eureka Fellowship from the Fleishhacker Foundation (2010). In 2023, his most recent book, "Binh Danh: The Enigma of Belonging," was the inaugural recipient of the Minami Book Grant for Asian American Visual Artists from Radius Books.
Danh's talk is presented as part of the Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture Series of the School of Art, Art History and Design. Underwritten by the Hixson-Lied Endowment with additional support from other sources, the series enriches the culture of the state by providing a way for Nebraskans to interact with luminaries in the fields of art, art history and design.
