egg tempera

“Lan” là tên của mẹ/ “Orchid” is my mother’s name 30″ x 48″ A painting about my relationship with my mother (whose name is literally Orchid) during my years living overseas. _______________________________________ Altar 30″ x 48″ One half is about my relationship with a loved one who came out as trans to me. I don’t […]

Watercolor (“placed” series)

To me, watercolor has a way of expressing ephemerality, both in how I paint– by layering transparent washes of water– and in the resulting textures. This ephemerality, combined with often semi-voyeuristic composition expresses my relationship with the world as someone from the diaspora, as a neurodivergent person, and a someone who’s alway rely on memories […]

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). […]