CHẾ (Vietnamese American, b. 1996)

​​

Identifying by her last name, Diana Chế is a German born, Vietnamese-American interdisciplinary visual artist and cultural educator based in Los Angeles. Her practice explores an ambiguous reconstruction of memory made from remnants of war, producing an intimate connection to ancestral rituals and spaces of familiarity. She's interested in reinterpreting ways to archive and preserve memory as an alternative form of healing from intergenerational trauma. Her conceptual work is a reservoir of dedicated research informed by themes of constructed identity, material sustainability, and collective healing.​

​​​

Chế has exhibited work at the Angels Arts and Cultural Center Gallery in San Pedro, Mardag Gallery at the Franconia Sculpture Garden, and Mandeville Gallery at the University of California, San Diego. Her drawings and paintings are in private collections around the United States, Germany, and France.​

​

Intuitively following her interests, she earned her BA in Economics with minors in Visual Arts and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego. Based in Los Angeles, she's currently an MFA candidate at California Institute of the Arts.