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In 1997, Hei Han Khiang, a Cambodian refugee to the U.S., returned to the region of his childhood to document the radical transformation of the cultural and physical landscape in rural Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. Khiang's photographs examine how the isolated communities of Hill Tribe People -- many of whom did not realize a war was even taking place in Southeast Asia -- have negotiated the sudden and unexpected U.S. aerial bombardment of their villages along the Ho Chi Minh Trail in the 1960s and 70s. The Hill Tribe People have transformed the physical devastation and war materials which violently disrupted their livelihood and the physical terrain -- turning bomb craters into fish ponds, making fences and houses from bomb shells, and turning grenades and other materials into lamps, cowbells, jewelry and useful tools.
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H e i H a n K h i a n g
E-mail: travel4art@hotmail.com
Education
| 1996 | MFA, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) |
| 1991 | BA, State University of New York, Buffalo |
| 1988-89 | China Exchange, Beijing Teacher's College/SUNY Oswego |
| 1986-87 | State University of New York College at Plattsburgh |
Awards and Fellowships
| 1998 | Longwood Arts Project, The Bronx Council for the Arts (May-December
1998) Artist in the Marketplace Program, The Bronx Museum of the Arts (March - June 1998) |
| 1996 | Anna Bing Arnold Scholarship UCLA Art Council Scholarship |
| 1995 | Elaine Krown Klein Fine Arts Scholarship Edna and Yu-Shan Han Scholarship National Graduate Seminar, American Photography Institute, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University |
| 1994 | National Endowment for the Arts/Arts International, Project Grant |
| 1986 | Nina Winkel Scholarship |
Selected Solo Exhibitions
| 1999 | Ho Chi Minh Trail, Campos Photography Center, Buffalo,
New York Ho Chi Minh Trail, Aspsara Gallery, Long Beach, CA |
| 1995 | Danger!! Mines!! UCLA Kerkhoff Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Danger!! Mines!! Aspsara Gallery, Long Beach, CA |
| 1994 | Children of the Killing Field, Meridian Gallery, Long Island, New York |
| 1991 | Anti-War Demonstration In Washington D.C., SUNY Buffalo, New York |
| 1990 | Tian An Men Square Democracy Movement, Villa Maria College, Buffalo, New York |
| 1989 | Tian An Men Square Democracy Movement, CEPA Gallery, Satellite
Show, Buffalo, New York Sarah Lawrence College, New York |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 1998 | The Bronx Museum of the Art (July - September),
Bronx, NY A Baker's Dozen, The Foot Square Space at the Sea Cliff Gallery, New York |
| 1996 | UCLA MFA Thesis Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1995 | Exile: House, Home, Homeland, Rice University,
Houston, TX Gulf and Western Gallery, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University |
| 1993 | International Women's Day, Phnom, Cambodia |
| 1991 | Exile Within, Self-Portrait Documentation, Bethune Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
| 1990 | Tian An Men Square Democracy Movement, Cleveland Institute of Arts, Ohio, Traveled exhibitions to Austin (TX), Flint (MI) and Hong Kong |
| 1989 | Tian An Men Square Democracy Movement, Asian American Art Center, New York, NY |
Reviews
| 1995 | The UCLA Graduate Quarterly, Los Angeles,
CA The Asian-Pacific Magazine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1994 | The New York Times The Press Telegraph, Long Beach, CA |
Selected Photographs in Publications and Photo Stock Agencies
| 1998 | The New York Times Sunday Magazine (June 28th, 1998) |
| 1997 | Handicap International, France |
| 1996 | The Red Krayola '96, Los Angeles Conceptual Artists' Music CD |
| 1995 | Non-Western Art, Image Resource Center, Prentice
On-Hall Publishing, New Jersey Oehlen Williams '95, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio |
| 1993 | The Phnom Penh Post, Cambodia |
| 1990 | University of Oregon Press, Eugene, Oregon |
| 1989 | Kyodo News Agency, Tokyo, Japan Associated Press,
New York Impact Visuals, New York |