sTo Len is an interdisciplinary artist whose work has centered on ecological place-based collaborations with diverse landscapes and co-creations with communities and municipal agencies. The cross-disciplinary nature of Len’s practice spans printmaking, video, sound, performance, installation, drawing, and social practice work, threaded together by a site-responsive process of making. Recent projects have included a Trash Museum in Kyrgyzstan, a community pirate radio show in New Mexico, and a series of plant-based printmaking while in residence at the Queens Botanical Garden in NY. Len was the first Artist in Residence at AlexRenew Wastewater Treatment facility in Virginia and the Public Artist in Residence at the NY Department of Sanitation from 2021-2023. Len has done extensive work with waterways including printmaking from surface pollution, underwater field recordings, and turning coastal clean ups into collaborative art events. sTo Len was most recently the Artist in Residence at the Grand Canyon where he was working with themes of embedded memory, deep time, and our relationship to visiting a site with an interactive video installation in the park’s main visitor center that hosts millions of people a year.

Len has exhibited internationally, including exhibitions in New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Texas, Vietnam, Japan, Germany, Australia, Denmark, and Canada. In 2004, sTo Len co-founded the Brooklyn-based artist-run space Cinders Gallery and curated hundreds of exhibitions and performances until 2019. Len is currently based in Queens, NY, with over two decades of residence in NY and familial roots in Vietnam and Virginia, often incorporating these bonds by connecting issues of their history, environment, and traditions. 

Photo by Alon Koppel