Julia Huỳnh

Julia Huỳnh is a second generation Vietnamese Canadian now based in Orange County, California.  As an interdisciplinary artist, community archivist, and independent researcher, Huỳnh’s interested in investigating the use of photography, language, and music as tools to construct identities, communities, and memories within the Vietnamese diaspora. In doing so, she often turns to her family’s personal archive and reimagined archives like gardens, in order to better understand her cultural identity and family history.

Huỳnh’s relationship to photography and the camera has shifted over time and most recently, due to the pandemic and the increased hypervisibility of anti-Asian hate, she  interrogate what it means to document oneself as an act of resistance, self-love, and self-care. Through altering, manipulating, and playing with images as they are destroyed or transformed into sculptures, she explores the ways in which the very process of the medium’s destruction can become an act of preservation

www.juliahuynh.com