Daniella Thach is a Cambodian-American artist whose works trace a country’s violent history and the diasporic impact on their family to form a new, amalgamous identity. Their artistic practice combines analog and digital lighting elements such as neon and video projections to collapse timelines across the past and familial memory to envisage life and identity after genocide, assimilation, and the loss of heritage.
Thach holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Currently, they are an Education Graduate fellow in the Master of Fine Arts in glass program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is advised by Helen Lee, head of the glass department. They are also studying scientific glassblowing under UW-Madison’s master glassblower, Tracy Drier.
Thach has exhibited works across the U.S. such as the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA, The Minnesota Museum of American Art in St. Paul, MN, and Zhou B Art Center in Chicago, IL. They were an artist in residence at Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, WA and Chautauqua School of Visual Arts in Chautauqua, NY. Their artwork has been featured in publications including New Glass Review, Sixty Inches From Center, and The Oxford Blue.
Exhibitions
“Ghostwriter”, comprised of four works across glass, textiles, archival footage, and wood, Art Lofts Main Gallery, Madison, WI.
“Still After: Threads of Remembrance”, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, IL.
“From Beginning to End and Back Again”, Backspace Gallery, Madison, WI
Teaching
T.A. for ART 100-316, 317, 318.
Guest lecture as part of the Art Colloquium held at the Chazen Museum of Art, February 2026.
Activities
Public neon glass bending demonstration as part of Astria Suparak’s visiting artist colloquium, 2026.