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MyLoan Dinh
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MyLoan Dinh
BIOGRAPHY
MyLoan Dinh is a Vietnamese American multidisciplinary artist. MyLoan exhibits nationally and internationally, including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Arlington National Biennial, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Ogden Contemporary Arts in Utah, the Santo Foundation in St. Louis, and the Urania Center for Science and Humanities in Berlin. Her work can be found in collections in the United States and Europe, including the Muhammad Ali Museum and Center in Louisville, KY, ArtFields in Lake City, SC, the Mint Museum of Art in Charlotte, NC, and the Imago Mundi Benetton Foundation, Italy.
Notable accomplishments include: Arts & Science Council Inaugural Founders Grant Recipient, NC Zeitgeist Foundation Biennial Artist, ArtFields 2nd Place Jury Prize and the Community Impact Grant from the Partnership for Democracy, Berlin. Her work has been featured in The Guardian, The Observer, Washington Post and BBC. She and her husband, Till Schmidt-Rimpler, co-founded Moving Poets – Charlotte l Berlin and have creative projects in the USA and Germany.
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"Human”
Artist Statement
Since 2016, I’ve been layering objects in eggshell veneer, inspired by sơn mài lacquer ware, an often-overlooked traditional craft related to my Vietnamese cultural heritage. Eggshells, while fragile, evoke life, shelter, nourishment. The deliberate slowness of this work bears emphasis. It requires time-consuming labor and care. Such slowness has given me the space to meditate on possible connections between identity, alternative ways of being, and non-Western epistemologies. The unhurried demands of my eggshell sculptures offer me a way of working through a broader, growing set of concerns about slowness as a decolonial strategy, and a way to resist the ever-quickening time pressures of capitalism. By focusing on slow and careful intentionality, the excessive idealization of speed and efficiency can be decentered and decelerated.
My work is made by and for humans. In our ever increasing polarized society, arts and culture brings people and communities together to see each other’s humanity.