About
Tshab Her is an interdisciplinary artist who focuses on embroidery and textile. She grew up in the suburbs of Chicago as a second generation Hmong American raised by her refugee parents who fled the “secret war” in Laos. She uses paaj ntaub, a traditional Hmong textile art, as a tool for storytelling by confronting the tensions between Hmong statelessness, imperial hegemony, displacement, belonging, femininity, joy, and cultural autonomy. The vibrancy and flow of her work calls attention to the resilience and strength of the war-torn Hmong body in search for collective peace. She received a Bachelor of Fine Art in studio arts at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2016 and moved to the Twin Cities, Minnesota in 2021 where she now lives and works. As an extension of her art practice, she creates handmade statement earrings under the guise of It’s Pronounced Cha.
Portrait by Drew Arrieta.
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