Tammy Nguyen
Tammy Nguyen (b. 1984, USA) is a Vietnamese-American multimedia artist whose practice traverses painting, drawing, printmaking, artist books, and independent publishing. A storyteller at heart, Nguyen weaves together intersections of geopolitics, ecology and overlooked histories, conveyed through a visual language of abstract forms, figurative imagery, intricate layering and striking flatness. Her works aim to unsettle; the interplay, not least dissonance between form and content, opens up spaces for radical thinking and subversion.
Nguyen received a BFA from Cooper Union in 2007 and a Fulbright fellowship to study lacquer painting in Vietnam in 2008, before earning her MFA in Yale in 2013. Since then, she has been awarded numerous awards and is now a professor at Wesleyan University and a Guggenheim fellow. Select recent solo exhibitions of Nguyen’s work have been organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (2023); Lehmann Maupin, Seoul, South Korea (2023); Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, NY (2022); Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan (2022); Tropical Futures Institute, SEA Focus, Singapore (2022); Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY (2021); Lightwell Gallery, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK (2019); Mariboe Gallery, Peddie School, Hightstown, NJ (2018); and The Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (2017), among others.