I am the founder and curator of Vagabond, a project-based platform that highlights Vietnamese artists, rooted in the DMV.

A core value of Vagabond projects is that there’s no one way to be Vietnamese, and therefore we can embrace all the different ways to be Vietnamese with love, acceptance and curiosity as the foundation of building community.

Vagabond Project 1: 2024 Art Zine

Vagabond’s first project is an art zine featuring 13 Vietnamese visual artists, musicians, poets and writers, mostly based in the DMV. The zine features artist interviews and photos. Each artist was also commissioned to write a letter to their younger selves as an act of self-love. The project culminated in a zine launch and outdoor exhibition featuring portraits of each artist exhibited in the Lost Origins outdoor Alley Gallery. The project was supported by Wherewithal Grants, a regional regranting program of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts administered by Washington Project for the Arts, and a grant from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. Vagabond is archived by the Library of Congress and The People’s Archive in Washington, DC.

Vagabond Project 2: 50 Years of HOPE and HA-HAs Exhibition (2025)

Vagabond presents “50 Years of HOPE and HA-HAs,” the DMV’s first Vietnamese American art exhibition, celebrating the expansiveness of the diaspora. The exhibition features visual art, poetry, video art, zines and music by over 20 Viet artists including four zine collectives, offering counter narratives from the 1.5 and 2nd generation while uplifting the multi-cultural intersectionality of the diaspora. The theme of resilience is interwoven through joy, memorial, heritage, catharsis, solidarity, representation and community. This exhibition is curated by Anthony Le and Philippa Hughes and funded by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities’ Art Exhibition Grant program.