Anthony Trung Quang Le
Anthony Trung Quang Le (b. 1985, Chattanooga, TN) is a Washington, D.C.-based multidisciplinary artist and identifies as Vietnamese, American and Queer. They explore the joy of nonconformity across painting, video, sculpture, printmaking, performance and curation.
Le co-founded Vagabond, a platform dedicated to amplifying Vietnamese American artists through projects such as a self-published 2024 art zine and the DMV’s first Vietnamese American exhibition 50 Years of Hope and Ha-Has at the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities (CAH).
Le is a three-time CAH Fellow (2023, 2024, 2025), and their work is part of the DC Art Bank Collection. In 2023, Le presented their solo exhibition “Golden Looking Hour” at Transformer in Washington, DC.
@anthonyleart
Please Don’t Go Bo
Acrylic and fabric on canvas, 40” x 30”
Question the River
Acrylic & chalk pastel on canvas, 36” x 30”
I make surreal images of people close to me, pop culture references and my own self-image in narratives about bias, power and belonging within my Vietnamese American Queer experience. I investigate masculine stereotypes in our patriarchal society and offer counter-narratives of vulnerability as strength. I’m interested in remixing Asian iconography to dismantle the model minority myth, emasculation and fetishization. I’m exploring Queerness through scenes of social deviance and otherness through anthropomorphic metaphor. I pinpoint moments of humor, joy and duality to show how my Asian and nonbinary identity feels expansive. I work in painting, video, sculpture, printmaking, performance, writing and curation, exploring the joy of nonconformity.