* ✉️ Minh Nguyen

I'm a writer, critic, and curator, based between New York City and Ho Chi Minh City. Within my work, I take special interest in the philosophy of art, socialist and anti-colonial aesthetic traditions, avant-garde/militant cinema, and etc. Currently, I am the curator at Dogma, a collection and exhibition space in HCMC, and the managing editor of e-flux journal.

I have organized exhibitions and screenings at Wing Luke Museum, Northwest Film Forum, and King Street Station, Gene Siskel Film Center and Chicago Cultural Center. My criticism has appeared in publications such as e-flux journal, Art in America, Artforum, Momus, Mousse, and ArtAsiaPacific. I received an Andy Warhol Arts Writers award, and was a visiting scholar at New York University via the Asia/Pacific/America Institute. Formerly, I was an instructor at Parsons School of Design, The New School.

I'm slowly completing a book of essays, forthcoming with Art Metropole (Toronto, Canada) and Wendy's Subway (Brooklyn, US).

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

View of "A Radial System" at Dogma, February 28 - June 13, 2025. Photo by Dương Gia Hiếu.

Some Essays, Reviews, and Interviews

In 2021, I guest-curated what flies but never lands?, an exhibition on the scales of time, at Chicago Cultural Center. While in Chicago, I was a curatorial assistant for Conversations at the Edge, a film, video, and new media series at Gene Siskel Film Center, organizing programs like This Set of Actions is a Mirror. Before that, in Seattle, I worked as exhibition specialist at Wing Luke Museum in its Chinatown-International District, where exhibitions are created through a collective participatory process.

Website designed by Jacob Lindgren. Last updated March 2025.

Photo by S*an D. Henry-Smith