Danh Vo (1975)

Danh Vo

Danh Vo, birth name Võ Trung Kỳ Danh, is a Vietnamese-born painter and sculptor who lives and works in Berlin and Mexico City.

As a child, he left Vietnam as a refugee in 1979 with his family and moved to Europe. His family settled in Denmark, where they were granted political asylum and citizenship. Vo later studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and graduated from the Städelschule in Frankfurt.

His work is at the intersection of art, world history and personal diary. Vo's works draw on the facts of many individual biographies, including his own, as well as aspects of political history and social memory, to analyze the various forces that influence our lives in both explicit and unexplored ways. Danh Vo creates sculptures, installations, photographs and works on paper.