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Shared private histories and the artistic authorship

Danh Vō is a Vietnamese-born Danish performance art inspired conceptual artist. He lives and works in Berlin, Germany and Mexico City. Danh Vo is openly gay.
Early life and education Danh Vō (pronounced yon voh)was born in Bà Rịa, Vietnam in August 1975.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. In 1979, 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.Their assimilation into European culture and the events that led up to their flight from Vietnam are reflected in Vō’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. Vō moved to Berlin in 2005, after finishing school at Städelschule in Frankfurt, where he went after quitting painting at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. He had residencies at the Villa Aurora in Los Angeles (2006) and at Kadist Art Foundation in Paris (2009).He lives in both Berlin and Mexico City.
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