Dan Lynh Pham - The American Scholar

Dan Lynh Pham - The American Scholar

Dan Lynh Pham, who was born in Vietnam but grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, has been exploring themes of cultural identity through her prints since she was an undergraduate at Oklahoma State University. “The values and the way [my parents] were raising me was as if they had plucked Vietnam into the household, and I was still in Vietnam,” she says. The competing cultural expectations of Pham’s Vietnamese family and American peers “created a lot of con…