hamsa fae

hamsa fae (b. 1993, Los Angeles) is a Vietnamese American artist and organizor working across expanded performance and time-based media. Rooted in a decade of land-based animist practice, she positions the body as a site for re-matriation. Her distinctive method probes how ritualistic systems reshape intimacy and our entanglement to earth, the screen, and one another. 

Emerging from the spiritual lineages of trans womanhood, her work mobilizes the feminine form as an ancestral technology for reclaiming aliveness. She submerges into interconnected ecologies—from California coastlines to livestreaming platforms— activating each as more-than-human agents. Through durational bodily transformation and self-documentation, she counter-archives how bodies are consumed and mediated within economies of gendered labor and desire. 

Her performances translate into multimedia installations that function as speculative altars and elemental afterlives. Combining organic materials, field recordings, and assembled GIFs, she designs participatory spaces where consciousness and interface become porous through encounter. Audiences kneel, speak, drink, and gather in collective acts that confront the erasure of third-gender peoples and blur the roles of witness, voyeur, and co-author.

Her work has been presented across experimental and institutional spaces throughout San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, and San Diego. She has delivered talks at the Center for Race and Gender at UC Berkeley, the 2024 Paris Olympics, and the San Diego Asian Film Festival. Her writing has been published and featured in diaCritics, Transgender Law Center, and the Yale School of the Environment. She is the Founder and Director of the first AAPI Emerging Artist Fellowship in Southern California, where she curates exhibitions, film programming, workshops, and residencies in cultivation of queer, AAPI artistry and visibility.