* Minh Nguyen

I'm a writer and organizer of exhibitions and programs currently living in New York, by way of Ho Chi Minh City. I generally focus on conceptual, research-based, and cinematic art, socialist and anti-colonial world cultures, the philosophy of art, and critical pedagogy. I have curated exhibitions and screenings at Wing Luke Museum, Northwest Film Forum, and King Street Station in Seattle, Gene Siskel Film Center, and Chicago Cultural Center. My writing appears in publications such as Art in America, Artforum, Momus, Mousse, frieze, and ArtAsiaPacific. (see below)

I received a 2022 Andy Warhol Arts Writers award, and am currently a 2022-24 visiting scholar at New York University via the Asia/Pacific/America Institute. Formerly, I was an editor at Pioneer Works Broadcast, and an instructor at Parsons School of Design, The New School. From 2021-22 I was a participant in the "Art Schools of Asia" seminar organized by Asia Art Archive. I'm slowly working on a book of essays, forthcoming with Art Metropole and with support from Fogo Island Arts.

In the non-tonal English language, Nguyá»…n is pronounced like when.

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In 2021, I guest-curated what flies but never lands?, an exhibition on the scales of time, at Chicago Cultural Center. For the film, video, and new media series Conversations at the Edge at Gene Siskel Film Center, I co-organized This Set of Actions is a Mirror with Liza Sylvestre. Beforehand, I was an exhibit specialist at Wing Luke Museum in Seattle's Chinatown-International District, where exhibitions are collectively created by community members.

*This website was last updated on March 22, 2024. On this day, I was thinking about the statement "I would rather wait for you than believe that you are not coming at all."