Hùng Lê is currently an MFA candidate in Visual Art at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual
Arts. Immigrating to the United States from Việt Nam at a young age shaped a complex and
multifaceted sense of identity that has been a generative force in their thinking and studio
practice. As a bilingual and transnational, Lê was keenly made aware of how languages facilitate our imagination and our capacity to communicate our lived experiences. Because of this, research serves as the foundation within their practice to investigate how personal memory is retained within objects, photographs, and oral traditions, compared to how collective or national memory is created and preserved through education, archives, and propaganda.
Lê received their BFA and Asian Studies Certificate from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2022.
They have received multiple awards, including the Charlotte Street Visual Artist Award in 2025, the Windgate-Lamar Fellowship Award in 2022, the Jesse-Howard Fellowship in 2022, and the Charlotte Street Foundation Studio Residency in 2022.