Bio
Binh Danh (MFA, Stanford University; BFA, San Jose State University) reimagines traditional photographic techniques to explore the layered connections between history, identity, and place. He is widely recognized for his contemporary daguerreotypes of national parks—striking works with mirrored surfaces that invite viewers of all backgrounds to see themselves reflected in the American landscape. Earlier in his career, Danh investigated the collective memory of war through chlorophyll printing, a process he pioneered in which photographic images are embedded in leaves via photosynthesis.
His work is held in the permanent collections of major institutions including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the National Gallery of Art, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Danh has been honored with numerous awards, including the William Collins Smith Auburn Award for Advancing American Art (2024) and the Eureka Fellowship from the Fleishhacker Foundation (2010). His most recent book, Binh Danh: The Enigma of Belonging, was the inaugural recipient of the Minami Book Grant for Asian American Visual Artists from Radius Books in 2023. He is an associate professor of art at San José State University.
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