Danh Vo

Danish, b.1975

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Past exhibition at Sifang

Danh Vo (pronounced yon voh) was born in Bà Rịa. After the Communists' victory and the fall of Saigon, the Vo family and 20,000 other South Vietnamese were brought in 1975 to the island of Phú Quốc.When he was 4 years old, his family fled South Vietnam in a homemade boat and was rescued at sea by a freighter belonging to the Danish Maersk shipping company. The family members settled in Denmark, and their assimilation into European culture and the events that led up to their flight from Vietnam are reflected in Vo’s art, which juxtaposes the historical and the personal. When Danh Vo and his family were registered by the Danish authorities, the family name Vo was placed last. His middle name,Trung, was recorded as his first name.