Ann Phong

Ann Phong, a gifted painter with a penchant for subtle but nonetheless critical narrative. Phong Juxtaposes heavily impasto layers with finer, more transparent ones, as well as vaguely delineated images to convey the complexity of her feelings. (from Daniella Walsh, Febuary 1998. Visual Artsource). 

Ann Phong received her MFA at CSU Fullerton (’95). She has exhibited nationally and internationally, solo and group in more than 200 exhibitions at galleries and museums such as the Watts Towers Art Center (Los Angeles, California), Belgovich Gallery at Cal State U Fullerton, the Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach, California), Palm Spring Art Museum, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art (Kitakyushu, Japan), Center Art Gallery (Vancouver, Canada), Gandong Art Center (Seoul, Korea), Red Roof Museum (Chengdu China), Gangueung Museum (Korea) and Andaman Museum (Thailand). 

Ann’s exhibitions have received many reviews, like in LA Times (Zan Dubin, March 1995), Voice of OC (Richard Chang, Nov. 2018), OC Register (Jeannie Denholm, Dec 2019) and KCET (Sarah Rafael García, March 2022)

She served as Board President of the VAALA (Vietnamese American Arts and Letters Association) between 2009 and 2018. 

Ann is faculty in the Department of Art at Cal Poly Pomona, where she teaches Drawing and Painting.

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