Danh Vo was born in Bà Rịa, Vietnam, in 1975. He is a graduate of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and the Städelschule in Frankfurt.

Following his first solo show at Galerie Klosterfelde in Berlin in 2005, Vo’s works have been shown at venues such as the Walker Center in Minneapolis, the Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Art Institute in Chicago, the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid and the Guggenheim in New York. He represented Denmark at the 2015 Venice Biennale.

Raised in Denmark, Vo currently lives and works in Berlin and Mexico City.