Self-portrait study of Alfred Steigletz’s
“Sun Rays — Paula Berlin” (1889).
“Sun Rays — Paula Berlin” (1889).
(b. 2003 Fort Wayne, IN) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Chicago, IL. As an overarching theme, she utilizes the arts as a form of dissection and protest— abstracting from her own racialized experiences growing up in Midwest America and her familial background of Vietnamese refugees.
She enmeshes archives, objects, materials, crafts, and traditions both from Vietnamese culture and the American landscape/infrastructure to investigate the volatile, lifelong act of re-grounding the fractured self on land that is not home. How can the American landscape be counter-mapped to hold space for diasporic bodies? How does one preserve the self in fracture whilst creating from it? Resisting these erasures is core to her practice—through ritual and prayer, through action as care, and beautification as survival.
Artist panel featuring (from left to right) Paul Octavious, David Kim, Angelo Dolojan, Nick D'Alessandro, Alyvia Luong at Notre Shop in Chicago, IL.
Sunday Morning Fossils installation on view at the SAIC Galleries in Chicago, IL.
Solo exhibition at Studio 330 in the Flat Iron Arts Building in Chicago, IL.
“State of Disequilibrium” from Rebellion, 2023 on view in Rotterdam, New Zealand.
Clockwork Mourning, 2025 on view at the MacLean Center in Chicago, IL.
Exhibitions
Solo 2026, Offerings, Flat Iron Arts Building, Chicago, IL USA
Group 2026, UGG x Notre: Falling Backwards, Notre Shop, Chicago, IL, USA
2026, softly, it remains, James B. Marco Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
2026, Vibrant Chicago: Entry Point, Mana Contemporary Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
2026, “Sunday Morning Fossils”, SAIC Spring Undergraduate Exhibition, SAIC Galleries, Chicago, IL, USA
2026, US Three One Show: Traces of Movement, Gallery Kobun, Tokyo, JPN
2025, II Jhnchristopher. Album Reception, Chicago, IL, USA
2025, Rotterdam Photo Festival: Shared/Connected, Rotterdam, NL
2025, Robotics & Kinetics Invitational Exhibition, MacLean Center, Chicago, IL, USA
2022, ARTBASH, LeRoy Neiman Center Galleries, Chicago, IL, USA
2021, Scholastic Art & Writing National Awards, Bronx Documentation Center Annex, Bronx, NY, USA
2021, Scholastic Art & Writing National Awards, Carnegie Hall, New York, NY, USA
2021, Scholastic Art & Writing Regional Awards, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN, USA
2021, High School Student Show, Garrett Museum of Art, Garrett, IN, USA
2021, National YoungArts Week + 2021 Exhibition, Online, USA
2021, USF Creative Arts 45th Annual High School Art Exhibition, Mimi & Ian Rolland Art Center, Fort Wayne, IN, USA
2020, Scholastic Art & Writing Regional Awards, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN, USA
2020, Comfort Zone Art Show, 114 W. Washington Blvd, Fort Wayne, IN, USA
2020, USF Creative Arts 44th Annual High School Art Exhibition, Mimi & Ian Rolland Art Center, Fort Wayne, IN, USA
Select Accolades
2026, FEBRUARY Artist-in-Residence, Flat Iron Studio 330
2022, Buannano Contemporary Practices Scholarship Award, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2021, Presidential Merit Scholarship Award, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2021, Competitive Excellence Scholarship Award, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2021, Semifinalist for U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts, U.S. Presidential Scholars Program
2021, 1st Place National Gold in Photography, YoungArts Foundation
2021, Social Justice Advocacy Award, FWMOA + Downtown Fort Wayne + Art This Way
2021, American Visions Award Nominee, Scholastic Art & Writing
2021, National Gold Medal Art Portfolio, Scholastic Art & Writing
2021, National Silver Medal Art Portfolio, Scholastic Art & Writing
2021, Outstanding Achievement in Photography Award, University of Saint Francis
2020, Outstanding Achievement in Photography Award, University of Saint Francis
Select Press + Publications
November 2026, LVL3, Spotlight of the Week: Alyvia Luong
“Rebellion”
CHERRY MOON: Emerging Voices from the Asian Diaspora (2023)
CHERRY MOON is a special print anthology exclusively featuring the voices of Asian diaspora emerging writers and artists.
"…an exceptional covey of writers using language and thought to plumb questions of relationship to Asia as well as the non-Asian spaces they live in. The fact of this rigorous anthology, arranged with care and deliberate attention, shows me more new poets and writers to read again and again and trust that there are presses out there with representational justice helming the literary world. Think of how many constellations are out there beyond the Cherry Moon. Think of Cherry Moon opening the pages of possibility."
— Rajiv Mohabir
“The sin(ner) I cannot forgive.”
The Adroit Journal: Issue Forty (2022)
"There’s fantastic artwork and photography here that prioritizes self-preservation. See Scarlett Cai’s Fool’s Paradise and the haunting relevance of Maximo Guerra’s Satirical Stereotypes series. Witness Jalynn McDuffey’s Lookalike and the unflinching loneliness of Alyvia Luong’s photography series, The Sin(ner) I Cannot Forgive."
“The sin(ner) I cannot forgive.”
National YoungArts Week + Anthology and Catalogue (2021)
Select works by 2021 YoungArts Finalists in Design Arts, Photography, Visual Arts and Writing.