about
mi-mimi
Lê Hương Mi | Hương Mi Lê
based in hanoi, vietnam
contact@mi-mimi.com
blog (old writings): http://margueritedao.blogspot.com/
instagram: @huongmi.le
Hương Mi Lê (b. 1991) is an educator, a translator, and an author. She teaches History of Graphic Design and Typography at the Monster Lab Art & Design Academy and is the History of Graphic Design columnist at iDesign. Mi participates in organizing many art events in various roles, such as project manager, media manager, talk moderator, and speaker. She has collaborated with CA' Library, Noirfoto Darkroom-Studio-Gallery, Á Space, VCCA, Goethe Institute HCMC, French Institute Hanoi, Pencil Philosophy, Sunday Art Club, Thái Hà Books, Omega+, Người Đô Thị magazine, etc., and independent practitioners.
Mi is also a poet and a visual artist working wearing the persona mi-mimi.
Selected translations:
Kế hoạch của linh hồn: Khám phá ý nghĩa cuộc sống mà bạn đã lên kế hoạch từ trước khi sinh ra (Your Soul's Plan: Discovering the Real Meaning of the Life You Planned Before You Were Born, by Robert Schwartz) - Thái Hà Books - 2021
Selected shows:
04/2021: Self-Reflection - Group exhibition - Fu Hoo cafe (Hanoi)
04/2021: wo|nderer - Group performance - TPD Center (Hanoi)
11/2022: thơ hồng / pink poetry - Solo performance - Đây Đó cafe (Hanoi)
03-04/2021: Cõi riêng ảo / Virtual Private Realms - Group exhibition - Manzi Art Space (Hanoi)
12/2019: Animal Theater 2019 - Performing event - Á Space (Hanoi)
12/2019: Poetry Plus - Performance Plus 2019 - Mot+++ (Ho Chi Minh City) - Guest artist in A. Farm recidency
06/2017: Khi Đàn Chim Trở Về / When the Birds Fly Home - Photography and Story Telling Exhibition - Multiple artists - Vietnamese Women's Museum (Hanoi)
Selected publication:
The dawn of photography and the shift of art and graphic design (Nhiếp ảnh ra đời và sự thay đổi hoàn toàn của nghệ thuật và thiết kế đồ hoạ), part 2, 2021, iDesign
The dawn of photography and the shift of art and graphic design (Nhiếp ảnh ra đời và sự thay đổi hoàn toàn của nghệ thuật và thiết kế đồ hoạ), part 1, 2021, iDesign
An overview of the history of graphic design (Tổng quan dòng chảy lịch sử thiết kế đồ hoạ), 2021, iDesign
What is typography, eventually? (Cuối cùng thì Ký tự pháp là gì?), 2020, iDesign
I found Emil Nolde in the gaze of Mrs. T (Tôi đã tìm thấy Emil Nolde trong ánh mắt của bà T), 2020, iDesign
Selected lectures, presentations, workshops:
11/2020 - 06/2022: Series of monthly seminars on the History of Paintings - for Sunday Art Club
05/2023: Roundtable Creative Photography in Higher Education - Moderator - with Pascal Beausse, Bert Danckaert, Nguyễn Xuân Khánh, Nguyễn Thế Sơn, Phan Lê chung - for Photo Hanoi'23
03-04/2023: Workshop Visual Arts Appreciation – Audience-centered in collaboration with CA' Library
03/2023: ca'talks #02: Gesamtkunstwerk – Art creating Society - for CA' Library
11/2022: Poetry, the poetic current in contemporary culture with MYAN, Duy Phương, and PhD. Đinh Minh Hằng for Vietnam Festival of Creativity and Design
07/2022: Belief! and Doubt? in Visual Arts for Pencil Philosophy
04/2022: Printmaking in the Visual Arts: History and Contemporary with Nguyễn Đình Hưng, Din Sama, and Phạm Tuấn Ngọc for Room of Fotography Hanoi
03/2022: From Expressionism to Abstract: Sentimentality in Geometric Abstraction for Vincom Center of Contemporary Art (VCCA)
03/2022: From Non-Representational to Pure Abstraction in Plastic Arts for VCCA
08/2021: What to learn? How to learn? - For photography practitioners with Phạm Tuấn Ngọc - for Noirfoto and Sunday Art Club.
12/2020: A discussion on discord and harmony in the history of visual arts with the born of photography - Study tour - for Pencil Philosophy
06/2020: The path of a professional artist with Truong Tan and Hà Ninh Pham as guests - for Vincom Center of Contemporary Art (VCCA)
05/2020: Distinguish between Visual Art and Design - Lecture - for Vincom Center of Contemporary Art (VCCA)