Danh Vo was born in Bà R?a, Vietnam, in 1975. Vo is a graduate of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen (2002), and the Städelschule, Frankfurt (2005). His practice, existing at the intersection of autobiography and collective history, explores the signification found within archival traces as well as the malleable nature of personal identity.

With references to migration and integration, Vo’s largely conceptual body of work destabilizes the embedded structures of legitimacy within citizenship and identification.

The conceptual work Vo Rosasco Rasmussen (2002– ) involves the artist’s marriages to and immediate divorces from important people in his life. Assuming and amassing the surnames of his temporary spouses, ...