On 9 February 2018, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum opened Danh Vo: Take My Breath Away, a survey of the Danish-Vietnamese artist's work that ran through 9 May. Organized by Katherine Brinson with Susan Thompson and Ylinka Barotto, the exhibition gathered sculptures, photographs, and works on paper made over roughly fifteen years. Vo's practice uses readymade objects, family histories, fragments of political power, and charged relics of migration and colonialism to explore how identity is shaped by possession, displacement, faith, and national myth. The Guggenheim presentation was especially notable as the first comprehensive survey of Vo's work in the United States.
The exhibition consolidated Vo's reputation in the United States as a major artist of diaspora, memory, and historical assemblage.
