Anh Thuy Nguyen

Premiere DateApr 16, 2019
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Categories Art Culture Talk Weekly Talk
00:00 Introduction
00:37 Anh Thuy Anh Thuy
01:58 Vile Bodies Patio
04:17 Material and Themes
11:18 Post Minimalist Style
15:04 An Act of Simultaneous Looking
20:17 Semiotics of Distance
33:36 Perfect Black Big Spirit
39:18 Outro
39:40 Finish

Anh Thuy Nguyen (b.1993) is a visual artist from Hanoi, Viet Nam.  She earned an M.F.A in Interdisciplinary Fine Art from School of Visual Arts (2018)  and a B.A in Studio Art and English (Writing) from DePauw University (2015). Her work consists of installation, sculpture and performance that allegorize the interpersonal affect between bodies against the landscape of displacement, absence and nostalgia.

Thuy  has exhibited at Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery,  Sotheby’s Institute of Art , BOSI Contemporary, The Java Project, Pfizer Factory, Trestle Gallery, Nha San Collective (Hanoi, Viet Nam) among others.

Residencies include Brooklyn Art Space, Vermont Studio Center. Anh Thuy is the recipient of institutional awards for the art:  Prindle Institute Prize for Exceptional Visual Art Project related to Ethics (2015) and Efroymson Fellowship Grant (2014).

Thuy is based in Brooklyn, NY where she is currently a member of Brooklyn Art Space –Trestle Projects and Adjunct Professor at Hudson County Community College (NJ).

She has an upcoming show at Chinatown Soup in Manhattan.

All images courtesy of the artist


An Act of Simultaneous Looking, 2018
Silicone, Thermoplastic, Epoxy Resin, Acrylic Paint and Mixed Media


An Act of Simultaneous Looking, 2018
Silicone, Thermoplastic, Epoxy Resin, Acrylic Paint and Mixed Media


Semiotics of Distance, 2017
Steel, Aluminum Platter, Silicone, Mixed Media and Performance


To Clense, 2017
Single channel video performance of the artist washing a traditional Vietnamese red altar.


To Clense, 2017
Single channel video performance of the artist washing a traditional Vietnamese red altar.

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