Brian Doan was born in Vietnam and immigrated to the United States in 1991. In 2004 he received his BFA in photography from the University of Colorado at Denver. He is currently in the MFA program and teaching faculty at the Mass College of Art in Boston.
Brian's work has been exhibited internationally. including the Museum of Photography in Riverside, California, the International Center of Photography in New York, the Centre of Image in Mexico City, and the Victoria & Albert Museums in London.
He is the recipient of several grants and awards, including from the California Council for the Humanities and the Rockefeller Fellows in the Humanities. His monograph The Forgotten Ones was published by VAALA in 2004.