Pao Houa Her is a photographer who's work is primarily centered around the struggles of Hmong people.[1]
Pao Houa Her | |
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Born | 1982, in Laos |
Known for | Photography |
Movement | Modernism, feminism, Hmong, vietnam war |
Early life and education
Her early life started in Laos where she was born up until the age of three, when her family fled to Minnesota were she spent most of her life.[2] She remembers vividly the long migration from Laos to camps in Thailand and, finally, on to Saint Paul where Her’s family settled in 1986.[2] She graduated from Humboldt High School in 2001, as a sophomore he became increasingly more interested in photography. She learned her art shooting film—she wouldn’t start working in a digital format until graduate school. She stated at Inver Hills Community College, getting her generals before transferring to the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.[3] When attending college in 2009, she got a bachelor’s of fine arts in photography from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. And then in 2012 she received a master’s of fine arts in photography from the Yale School of Art in New Haven, in Connecticut[4].
Work
She combines images that range from her life in Laos that include ancient large stone jars with burial sites and portraits of the elderly. her backdrops include blank empty studio back drops and range to plastic flowers. her images can combine together and represent each other but they can also stand separately but either way they all represent the Hmong American narrative.[5]
Grants and Awards
- 2016
- McKnight Visual Artists Fellowship, Minneapolis[6]
- 2013
- Jerome Fellowship for Emerging Artist, Jerome Foundation, Minneapolis Minnesota State Arts Board Artists Initiative Grant[6]
- 2012
- Alice Kimball Fellowship, Yale University School of Art, New Haven CT[6]
- 2009
- Minnesota State Arts Board Artists Initiative Grant [6]
Solo Exhibitions
- 2019
- My grandfather turned into a tiger, PLATFORM Centre, Winnepeg, Canada (Jan 11–Feb 22)[6]
- 2018
- My grandfather turned into a tiger, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis (Feb 10–April 7) [6]
- 2016
- My Mother’s Flowers, Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis (June 23–July 30)[6]
- 2015
- 2013
- 2012
- Somebody, The Gordon Park Gallery, curated by Wing Young Huie, St. Paul MN (September)[6]
Group Exhibitions
- 2019-18
- Depths, Elevations Laos Biennial, curated by Erin Gleeson, Sin Many, i:cat Gallery, Ban Simeuang, Vientiane, Laos (Nov 9–Jan 16)
- EXit/ EXile/ EXodus: Voicing the Diaspora in Southeast Asian Contemporary Art, curated by Loredana Pazzini-Paracciani, MAIIAM, Chiang Mai, Thailand (March 4, 2018–March 3, 2019)[6]
- 2018
- in(di)visible, Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston TX (Feb 3–April 22)[6]
- 2017
- On Attachments and Unknowns, SA SA BASSAC, curated by Erin Gleeson, May Adadol Ingawanij, Ben Valentine, Phnom Penh, Cambodia (May 19–Aug 19)[6]
- 2016
- Reframe Minnesota: Art Beyond a Single Story, All My Relations Gallery, Minneapolis (June 24–Sept 16)[6]
- 2015
- 2014
- The 2014 Jerome Fellowship Exhibition, Minneapolis College of Art and Design (Oct 3–Nov 9)[6]
- 2013
- Swerve and Fracture, Camera Club of New York, New York City (Sept 14–Nov 2) [6]
- 2012
- 2010
- Foot In The Door, Minneapolis Institute of Art (Feb 19–June 13) [6]
- 2009
References
- ^ "Hmong-American photographer is a pioneer". Star Tribune. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
- ^ a b [www.bockleygallery.com/artist_her/index.html. "Pao Houa Her"]. Bockley Gallery.
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