Christian Dinh: On Being Lucky

Christian Dinh is a Vietnamese-American ceramic artist from Orlando, Florida. Currently, Dinh is attending the MFA program at Tulane University and will graduate in 2022. He received his BA in 2017 from the University of West Florida in Pensacola, Florida. While studying at UWF, Christian Dinh was nominated for the International Sculpture Center’s Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award. Dinh’s ceramic and sculptural work has been in numerous exhibitions throughout the Gulf Coast, including the exhibition PHILIC / PHOBIC at the Pensacola Museum of Art and And Now For Something New Vol. 2 at LeMieux Gallery in New Orleans, Louisiana. Christian Dinh’s most recent series Nail Salon redirects stigma and celebrates Vietnamese-American identity by confronting racism, stereotypes and underrepresentation. The work focuses on the Vietnamese culture that developed in the United States subsequent to the Vietnam War and the flourishing Vietnamese community established by refugees and immigrants throughout the country. Christian Dinh’s Nail Salon will be exhibited as part of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art’s Focus Series in June 2021 in New Orleans, Louisiana.