Hùng Lê is an interdisciplinary artist born in Đồng Nai, Việt Nam. His family immigrated to America when he was seven, settling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Immigrating at a young age has caused a lot of dissonance within his identity, which fostered his interest in memories, American culture, immigration, language, and citizenship as a means to understand himself and the history that precedes him. He has received multiple awards, including the Charlotte Street Visual Artist Award in 2025, the Windgate-Lamar Fellowship Award in 2022, the Jesse-Howard Fellowship in 2022, and the Charlotte Street Foundation Studio Residency in 2022.