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.
Select Essays, Reviews, and Interviews
New Artist Focus: Suneil Sanzgiri, LUX Moving Image, Feb 2024
On Filipa CĂ©sar and SĂłnia Vaz Borges, Momus, Nov 2023
Interview with Eduardo Williams, ScreenSlate, Oct 2023
Interview with Mary Helena Clark and Mike Gibisser, Pioneer Works Broadcast, Â Sept 2023
On militant cinema renewed, Art in America, March 2023
On Alexander Markov's Red Africa and Hana Vojáčková's We Love Life, ScreenSlate, Feb 2023
On the pop star Min, Pioneer Works Broadcast, Oct 2022
Profile of Zheng Bo, Art in America, Â Sept 2022
Review of Documenta15, Art in America, Aug 2022
Interview with Anthony Banua-Simon, Pioneer Works Broadcast, Dec 2021
On Miko Revereza’s No Data Plan, Art in America, Oct 2021
On Ho Rui An’s Student Bodies, Terremoto, Feb 2021
On Luis Camnitzer and liberatory art education, Momus, March 2021
Interview with Ana Garcia Jácome with Jacobo Zambrano-Rangel, Terremoto, Dec 2020
On Jueqian Fang and Hongzhe Liang's Perhaps..., Veronica Project Space, Â Aug 2020
Critics’ Pick: Võ An Khánh’s Masked Force, Artforum, April 2020
On the Chicago Architecture Biennial, frieze, Oct 2019
First Look: Liza Sylvestre, Art in America, Sept 2019
Interview with Nguyen Trinh Thi, ArtAsiaPacific, Sept 2019
Critics’ Pick: Hương Ngô’s In the Shadow of the Future, Artforum, April 2019
On Storme Webber’s Casino: A Palimpsest, Art in America, Dec 2017
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.
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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."