BIOGRAPHY

Born: Laos, 1982
Resides: Blaine, Minnesota
Education: Yale University School of Art (M.F.A., 2012); Minneapolis College of Art and Design (B.F.A., 2009).

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022 “Untitled”, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

“Paj qaum ntuj/Flowers of the sky”, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

2020 “Pao Houa Her: Emplotment”, Or Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia.

2019 “After the fall of Hmong Tebchaw”, Saint Catherine University, St. Paul, Minnesota.

“My grandfather turned into a Tiger”, PLATFORM Centre, Winnipeg, Canada.

2018 “My Mother’s flowers”, University of Wisconsin- Lacrosse, Lacrosse, Minnesota.

“My grandfather turned into a Tiger”, Midway Contemporary Arts, Minneapolis, MN.

2016 “My Mother’s flowers”, Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022 “The Outwin 2022: American Portraiture Today”, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C.

“Whitney Biennial: Quiet as It’s Kept,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

“Snake Whiskey Still Life and Other Stories”, Various Small Fires, Los Angeles.

2021 “The Regionals”, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.

2020 “The American War”, King Street Station, Seattle.

2019 “Artists Reflect: Contemporary Views on the American War”, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

2018 “Elevations Laos”, i:cat gallery, Vientiane, Vientiane, Laos.

“Expo Chicago”, Chicago.

“FRONT Triennial, The Great Lakes Research”, Cleveland Institute of Art, Ohio.

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2021 Pha, Kong Pheng. “Pao Houa Her: My Grandfather

Turned into a Tiger,” Aperture (Fall).

2020 Lightwork Contact Sheet 207: Light Work Annual 2020.

Light Work.

2015 Umolu, Yesomi. “Interview with Pao Her,” Black Flash Magazine (September).

2008 “Between the Water,” Water Stone Review (September).