sTo LeN

The Artist

sTo Len is a printmaker, installation, sound and performance artist with interests in improvisation and experimentation within a variety of media. The cross-disciplinary nature of Len’s work includes transforming public spaces such as a river into an art studio, recycling waste into art materials, and hosting water ritual performances at superfund sites. His printmaking work updates traditional techniques such as Suminagashi (floating ink) and Gyotaku (fish impression) into an experimental collaboration with nature and a site of discourse on environmentalism and art activism.

sTo Len is based in Queens, NY with bi-cultural roots in Vietnam and Virginia, and his work incorporates these bonds by connecting issues of their history, environment, traditions and politics. sTo co-founded the alternative arts space Cinders Gallery in Brooklyn, NY which has exhibited numerous artists since its inception in 2004 and continues to curate exhibitions as a project-based Non-Profit Arts organization.

Len has exhibited his work in exhibitions in New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Texas in the USA, and internationally in Vietnam, Japan, Germany, Australia, Denmark, and Canada. As a performance/sound artist, sTo has performed at diverse venues such as MOMA P51, New Museum, St. Marks Church, Ramiken Crucible, Silent Barn, and Roulette in New York, as well as Atelier Kunst Spiel Raum and the English Theater in Berlin, Theater de Chameleon in Amsterdam, La Société de Curiosités in Paris and most recently Manzi Gallery and Heritage Space in Vietnam.

Len is a member of Works on Water, a group of artists and activists working with and about water in the face of climate change and environmental justice concerns.

He is currently the first artist in residence at AlexRenew Wastewater Treatment facility in Alexandria, VA. He is also an artist in residence as part of the Field R/D program at Freshkills Park, a transformed landfill in Staten Island, NY.

Grasp Your Gun Tight, Hold Your Plow Firm, 2015

A work on handmade Do paper from Vietnam while Len was working in residency in Hanoi.

sTo Len’s Artworks

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2010s
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