Cambodian-American artist based in Chicago, Illinois working in light (ពន្លឺ) and new media.
daniellathach@gmail.com • @uglyneon on instagram and tiktok
E D U C A T I O N
currently an MFA candidate at University of Wisconsin-Madison
2021 BFA - School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2016 Pre-College Program: Painting - Minneapolis College of Art and Design
G R O U P E X H I B I T I O N S
2023 She Bends: Redefining Neon Legacy, Museum of Glass, Tacoma WA
2022 Connections I, Fowler-Kellogg Arts Center, Chautauqua NY
Sutures, Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul MN
2021 Bright-Line, Latent Space Gallery, Chicago IL
2020 Interconnected Dimensions, SAIC Galleries, Chicago IL
2019 Lumens Show II, Flex Space, Chicago IL
2017 In the Closet, Center on Halsted, Chicago IL
2016 Minneapolis College of Art and Design BFA building, Minneapolis MN
Nixie Gallery, Skokie IL
Central Suburban League Art Show, The Art Center, Highland Park IL
Skokie Public Library, Skokie IL
R E S I D E N C I E S
2023 Emerging Artist in Residence in Pilchuck School of Glass, Stanwood WA
2022 Artist in Residence in Chautauqua School of Visual Arts, Chautauqua NY
Photo by Tyler Ostos
T A L K S
2023 She Bends: Redefining Neon Legacy, led by Rïse Peacock, curatorial assistant at the Corning Museum of NY on Youtube Live
She Bends: Redefining Neon Legacy, led by Meryl Pataky and Kesley Issel, co-founders of She Bends at Museum of Glass, Tacoma WA
2022 Glass in the Expanded Field, led by Felicity Machado, artist and lecturer at Colorado College of Art, Colorado Springs CO
2021 Sutures: Seeing New Potentialities, led by Suriya Khuth, curatorial fellow at Minnesota Museum of American Art, Minneapolis MN
P R E S S & P U B L I C A T I O N S
She Bends, "‘She Bends: Redefining Neon Legacy’ Artist Statements: Daniella Thach on ‘As An Aspara’ and ‘The Tower of Angkor Wat,’” Museum of Glass, January 23, 2023
Hanesworth, Ian, “Sutures: An Interview with Michael Khuth,” Sixty Inches From Center, May 17, 2022, https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/sutures-an-interview-with-michael-khuth/
Khuth, Suriya, “Sutures,” Sutures (Exhibition Catalog), Published by the Minnesota Museum of American Art and Emerging Curators Institute, October 2021, pg. 20, PDF ↗
Petrova, Bianca, “An Ode to artistically relinquishing the cultural disconnect,” The Oxford Blue, January 31, 2021 https://theoxfordblue.co.uk/an-ode-to-artistically-relinquishing-the-cultural-disconnect/