Artistic Vision: Trinh Mai renders a personal history

THE ARTIST: Through photography, painting and works on paper, interdisciplinary artist Trinh Mai reimagines her personal history, family roots, and spiritual connections to alter conceptions about our identities and shared histories. Mai is an advisor for the Diasporic Vietnamese Artist Network’s Visual Arts Program. And, since 2012, she has been an artist-in-residence at UC Irvine’s Vietnamese American Oral History Project, where she uses visual-arts storytelling techniques to share