Theresa-Xuan Bui

is an interdisciplinary poet working in performance, video, and sculpture.




SELECTED WORKS

together you’re home, now where are we?
as if our hands could hold the weight of promise
upon skin, upon stone
To Love So Freely,
Body Shop
Fweakiest Fwiday: A Gender Reveal Party
W(H)ELCOME
AAPIasinDDMS


SELECTED POETRY

Behind my boys’ backs, I dream of my boys, and falling in love
I’ll choose love every time
 TLDR; My poetry is bigger than your poetry
the intimacy of a distance
Going, Growing, We Go
I’m good at being self-sufficient
ATEASE
Ô ăn quan
upon skin, upon stone collection
Posturing

ARCHIVED 

I built a pool of gold so we’d always stay afloat
One with the prison, one with the promise, together we give each other form
FUBU
Untitled (Blue)
Basics with Bui: Learning the Letter E’s
Collective Ideation #5

PROCESS  JOURNAL

 Experiments in movement




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At the center of their practice lies the question:
How will I honor my loved ones, my sisters, the liminal, the radical, exquisite, and unseen? To answer, I write.


CV | Resume

Theresa-Xuan Bui is an interdisciplinary artist working in poetry, performance, video, and sculpture. Reflecting on the complications of ownership, inclusion, and exclusion of the English language and subsequently, the American Dream itself, Theresa works to deconstruct language to interrogate the weight of this language on their generation, and past generations, who bought into the myth of bootstraps America. They are a child of the Bui household, a legacy of Vietnamese refugees and vanguard Asian-Americans. Born and raised in Bronx, NY, Theresa moved to Houston, TX before pursuing a BFA at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MIC/A). 

Their work has been exhibited at the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities (Washington, D.C.), Tang Teaching Museum (Saratoga Springs, NY), Otis Mountain Get Down (Elizabethtown, NY), Arlington Arts Center (Arlington, VA), Community College of Baltimore County Essex Gallery (Baltimore, MD), Yale School of Architecture (New Haven, CT), Seattle Asian American Film Festival (Seattle, WA), and Washington Project for the Arts (Washington, D.C). 

Their work has been supported by ADK Quad-County SCR Grant (2024). They’ve served as a committee ambassador for the Southeast Asian Diaspora Project and juried for the MICA Ginsberg Prize for Poetry (2023) which they won the previous year (2022). Bui is currently on sabbatical after working for an artist residency in the Adirondacks of New York.