Artist: Sisavanh Houghton | Location: Murfreesboro, TN
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Artist: Sisavanh Houghton | Location: Murfreesboro, TN
Murfreesboro, TN
Sisavanh Phouthavong is a Lao American visual artist born in Vientiane, Laos, in 1976. Her artwork has been exhibited nationally at venues including Asian Arts Initiative, Hunter Museum of American Art, Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, and Huntsville Museum of Art. Phouthavong earned her BFA from the University of Kansas and her MFA at Southern Illinois University of Carbondale, IL. She is a recipient of the 2017 Tennessee Arts Individual Artist Fellowship for 2D and the 2019 ArtField’s winner for painting. Sisavanh is a Professor of Painting at Middle Tennessee State University. Her refugee and immigrant experience inspire Phouthavong’s current work and raises awareness of the Secret War on Laos. Through her artwork, she confronts the challenges of bicultural memory and documentation. She considers abstract and concrete notions for those who must remember both their inner and external histories in a diaspora framed by secrecy and loss.
Artist Website
https://www.sisavanhphouthavong.com/