Past Exhibitions

Steven Luu: A Path to Healing & Transformation

Curated by Gloria (Jiaying) Dai
July 2024-May 2025

Steven Luu: A Path to Healing and Transformation explores art as a means of addressing and confronting trauma through the works of Steven Luu.

As an artist who was a medic and wounded veteran, Luu creates sculptural installations that deal with the traumatic experiences resulting from his childhood and numerous deployments in the Middle East. The artworks featured in this show, with an emphasis on seriality and repetition, infused with autobiographical meaning, aim to establish newborn and recognizable narrative potential that could transform loss and traumas into survival and rebirth.

Articulated by the motif and process of transformation, reinvention, and repurposing of materials, Luu’s works – employ everyday objects that accompanied him during his military service. Other materials, such as concrete and epoxy resin, are used to explore ways to express his inner voice. In his exploration of art through different mediums, Luu candidly speaks about the past, reveals his personal medical reality, and eventually offers the viewers access to healing with his life testimony.

Steven Luu
US Air Force, 1995-2016NVAM Artist Fellow 2024

George Mason University Article featuring Steven Luu: