Tammy Nguyen
Tammy Nguyen was born in San Francisco, CA and lives and works in New York CIty. Nguyen received a BFA from Cooper Union in 2007. The following year she was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study lacquer painting in Vietnam, where she remained and worked for a ceramics company for three years thereafter. In 2013, Nguyen received an MFA from Yale, and was awarded the Van Lier Fellowship at Wave Hill in 2014. Her work has been exhibited at the Rubin Museum of Art, The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre in Vietnam, the Bronx Museum, and is included in the permanent collections of Yale University, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, MIT Library, the Seattle Art Museum, the Walker Art Center Library, and the Museum of Modern Art Library. Recent solo and two person exhibitions include, The Ship Named Atlast, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond VA (2019); Necessary Fictions with Ha Ninh Pham, The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (2019); The Ship Named Atlast, Lightwell Gallery, University of Oklahoma, Norman OK (2019); and One Blue Eye, Two Servings with Nicole Won Hee Maloof, CRUSH Curatorial, New York NY (2018). Tammy Nguyen is also the founder of Passenger Pigeon Press, an independent press addressing geopolitics, science and identity through visual art and writing, and is an Assistant Professor of Art at Wesleyan University.
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Tammy Nguyen...he gnawed the steak off its T-bone..., 2020Watercolor, vinyl paint, and metal leaf on paper stretched over wood panels14 x 11 in.
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Tammy NguyenDust Season, 2020Watercolor, vinyl paint, and pastel on paper stretched over panel48 x 48 in.
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Tammy NguyenFire Season, 2020Watercolor, vinyl paint, and pastel on paper stretched over panel48 x 48 in.
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Tammy NguyenFlood Season, 2020Watercolor, vinyl paint, and pastel on paper stretched over panel48 x 48 in.
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Tammy Nguyenthe meeting of acidic water and corrosive rock, 2020Watercolor, vinyl paint, pastel, and metal leaf on paper stretched over wood panels24 x 20 in
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Tammy NguyenThe organisms around us had been dead for millions of years, 2020Watercolor, vinyl paint, and metal leaf on paper stretched over wood panels16 x 20 in
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Tammy NguyenVolcano Season, 2020Watercolor, vinyl paint, and pastel on paper stretched over panel48 x 48 in.
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Tammy NguyenYou could eat anything you found in the forest, 2020Watercolor, vinyl paint, and metal leaf on paper stretched over wood panels30 x 24 in
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Tammy NguyenA Gorgon, 2019Mixed media on panel30 x 24 in
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Tammy NguyenAs A Result of Trade, 2019Mixed media on panel30 x 24 in
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Tammy NguyenBats from The Good Light, 2019Watercolor, vinyl paint, pastel, and metal leaf on paper stretched over wood panel24 x 36 in
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Tammy NguyenHow To Resurrect, 2019Mixed media on panel20 x 16 in
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Tammy NguyenDaily Life in Malacca, 2018Mixed media on panel30 x 24 in
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Tammy NguyenAll Eyeballs Go to Heaven #2, 2015Mixed Media on Panel30 x 24 in
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Tammy NguyenStacked Landscape, 2015Mixed Media on Panel30 x 24 in
76.2 x 61 cm
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CAVE MATTER
Tammy Nguyen November 17 - December 19, 2020CAVE MATTER IS AN ON-LINE EXHIBITION OF NEW PAINTINGS BY TAMMY NGUYEN WHICH DRAWS FROM HER RECENT WRITTEN WORK, PHONG NHA, THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN SMILE (UGLY DUCKLING...Read more -
surreality
Alicia Adamerovich, Amanda Baldwin, Amie Cunat, Carl D'Alvia, Kirsten Deirup, Dominique Fung, Kathleen Granados, Angela Heisch, Peter LaBier, Zoe Nelson, Tammy Nguyen, Johanna Robinson, Sarah Slappey, Maureen St. Vincent, Emily Weiner, Ryan Wilde, Kalina January 8 - February 8, 2019Featuring: Alicia Adamerovich, Amanda Baldwin, Amie Cunat, Carl D'Alvia, Kirsten Deirup, Dominique Fung, Kathleen Granados, Angela Heisch, Peter LaBier, Zoe Nelson, Tammy Nguyen, Johanna Robinson, Sarah Slappey, Maureen St. Vincent,...Read more -
One Blue Eye, Two Servings
Nicole Won Hee Maloof and Tammy Nguyen October 18 - November 10, 2018Crush Curatorial is pleased to announce One Blue Eye, Two Servings, a two-person exhibition featuring video, etchings, and silkscreens by Nicole Won Hee Maloof and a series of paintings by...Read more
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Tammy Nguyen Exhibition at Hunter Shaw Fine Art
March 15, 2020Tammy Nguyen and Adam de Boer: Facing New Axes Hunter Shaw Fine Art, Los Angeles March 15 - April 26, 2020 Read moreRead more -
Tammy Nguyen at SPRING/BREAK Art Show
March 3, 2020Neo-Ornamentalist Redux SPRING/BREAK Booth 1116 Featuring Tammy Nguyen, Naomi Kawanishi Reis, and Takashi Horisaki Curated by Nina Horisaki-Christens March 3 - 9, 2020 Read more...Read more