I am an interdisciplinary artist and educator. My cartoons have been featured in The New Yorker, Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, and Medium. I am the vocalist/pianist of the jazz trio, Superior Cling, and creator of Mom’s Viet Kitchen, a cooking website that shares family recipes and the stories behind them. I am the cartoonist of the Ignatz nominated comic series, The Gulf. Most recently, I completed In Our Own Time, a six-part webcomic for McSweeney’s that charts the ups and downs of of my wife’s and my fertility journey. I have been awarded The Baker Prize, a Rubys Artist Grant, and an Independent Artist Award from the Maryland State Arts Council. Previously, I served as the senior video producer/editor at Science Magazine. As a digital media professor at Loyola University Maryland, I teach video, graphics, animation, comics, and more.
I was born in Saigon, Vietnam, and raised in Cape Coral, Florida. I studied visual art at The Cooper Union, earned a B.A. in music and integrated arts from Bard College, earned a master’s degree in jazz piano from the University of Maryland, and an MFA in Studio Art from Towson University. I live in Baltimore, Maryland with my wife and two sons.
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