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Alison Nguyen is a visual artist and filmmaker working across video, installation, and sculpture. Bringing personal histories into contact with broader forces of history, her work draws on speculative fiction, documentary research, and performance to construct counter-mythologies.
Her work has been presented at the Museum of Modern Art; MIT List Center for Visual Arts; Storefront for Art and Architecture; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea; Vienna Secession; The Everson Museum; The Dowse Art Museum; e-flux; Frieze Seoul Film; International Studio & Curatorial Program; Ann Arbor Film Festival; International Film Festival Oberhausen; CPH:DOX; Edinburgh International Film Festival; True/False Film Festival; Open City Documentary Festival; and Channels Festival International Biennial of Video Art, among others.
Nguyen has received residencies and fellowships from Pioneer Works, International Studio & Curatorial Program, the Institute for Electronic Arts, BRIC, and Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center. She has received support from the NYFA Artist Fellowship in Film/Video, NYSCA, Wave Farm’s Media Arts Assistance Fund, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and The New York Community Trust.
In 2018, Nguyen was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film.” Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Frieze, Flash Art, e-flux, Film Comment, The Brooklyn Rail, and Art Papers.
Education & Teaching
Education
MFA in Visual Arts
Columbia University
BA in Literary Arts
Brown University
Studio Fellow, 2023–2024
Whitney Independent Study Program
Current Teaching
Nguyen teaches in the BFA Studio Art program at NYU Steinhardt and the BFA Photography program at Parsons School of Design at The New School.
Previous Appointment
Visiting Assistant Professor, Film and Electronic Arts
Bard College, 2024–2025
Visiting Lectures & Critiques
Nguyen has served as a guest lecturer and visiting critic at the Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art, The Cooper Union, University at Buffalo, The New School, Rhode Island School of Design, Syracuse University, School of Visual Arts, and Sotheby’s Institute of Art.
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New York, New York
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