Phung Huynh

Phung Huynh is an artist and educator with a practice in drawing, painting, public art, and community engagement. Huynh’s projects explore the complexities of displacement, assimilation, and cultural negotiation among Cambodian and Vietnamese refugees who have resettled in the United States. She has completed public art commissions throughout Los Angeles County, including a permanent, large-scale metal sculpture that recognizes the dark history of forced sterilizations of 240 Mexican immigrant mothers between 1968 and 1974 at the Los Angeles General Medical Center (formerly LAC+USC Medical Center). Huynh has served as chair of the South Pasadena Public Art Commission and chair of the Prison Arts Collective Advisory Council, which supports arts programming in California state prisons. She is also a recipient of the City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowship, the California Arts Council Individual Established Artist Fellowship, and the California Community Foundation Visual Artist Fellowship. Huynh is Assistant Professor at California State University Los Angeles and represented by Luis De Jesus Gallery.