Vinhay Keo, born in Cambodia and currently based in Los Angeles, is an interdisciplinary visual artist and researcher. He employs photography, installation, sculpture, performance, and writing as strategies to explore the persistent hauntings of violence. By reading intimately across archives, Keo examines the legacy of the Khmer Rouge Genocide, the Vietnam War, colonialism in Indochina, and queer erasure throughout history and its effects on contemporary diasporic lives.

Keo earned an MFA in Art from the California Institute of the Arts (2020) and a BFA from the Kentucky College of Art + Design at Spalding University (2016). His work has been exhibited in the U.S. and internationally, including: ONE Archives at the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, California; USC Pacific Asia Museum (PAM), Pasadena, California; The Maxim Gorki Theatre, Berlin, Germany; Contemporary Arts Center Gallery at the University of California Irvine (UCI), Irvine, California; MAK Center for Art and Architecture at Mackey Apartments, Los Angeles, California; The Reef, Los Angeles, California; the Philosophical Research Society, Los Angeles, California; KMAC Museum, Louisville, Kentucky; Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore (ICAS) at LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore; California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California; 21c Museum, Louisville, Kentucky; The Loudoun House, Lexington, Kentucky; and Yale Norfolk School of Art, Norfolk, Connecticut. He has participated in various residency programs in the U.S. and abroad, including: Yale at Norfolk, Norfolk, Connecticut; Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass Village, Colorado; and Tropical Lab, Singapore. He is a recipient of the Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship, the Emergency Response Program Award from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA), Louisville Visual Art's Rising Star Award, and a Great Meadows Foundation grant.