egg tempera

Em 24″ x 36″ 2026 A portrait of my trans sibling; we snuck in a photoshoot for my reference when our family weren’t home with the clothes they’d kept hidden away. The title “Em” is a Vietnamese pronoun used to refer to a younger person, but is also a feminine pronoun in a relationship. The […]

Watercolor (“placed” series)

My watercolor has a way of expressing ephemerality, both through my painting process– by layering transparent color washes– and in the resulting textures. This ephemerality, combined with voyeuristic composition reveal my perspective as an outsider– a diasporic Vietnamese, a queer and neurodivergent person– who relies on memories to anchor them in the present world. My […]

Curatorial projects

Reorienting the Imaginaries Curated by Anh Bui, Robin Birdd, Shirin Makaremi, Lena Sok, and Renae Moua. SOMArts Cultural Center. San Francisco. November 2018- February 2019. —— APAture 2018 : RE:Place. Curated by APAture curatorial committee. Kearny Street Workshop. San Francisco. October 2018- November 2018. —— Remnants of the Diaspora. Curated by Anh Bui ASI Arts […]

Oil painting (What We Found in the Placeless series)

Did you know that a blackhole is undetectable by man, until it collides with another blackhole and creates a ripple throughout the universe? and that the sun is just a continuous explosion which we can’t hear through the vacuum of space? and the moon was created from the body of earth following a traumatic event, […]

Performances

Method Acting (2020) Music written, performed, and produced by Bùi Hà Anh. Video directed by Bùi Hà Anh, Sarah Eun Kim, and Khánh Phạm. Staring: Bùi Hà Anh and Trần Quang Dũng. 3:09 ———————————- Awaiting Orchid (2019) Awaiting Orchid is a metaphor for the digital relationship between the artist and his mother– Lan Huong (Orchid Scent). […]