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Alison Nguyen is visual artist and filmmaker working across video, installation, and sculpture. Her practice integrates the particulars of the personal with an exploration into broader forces of history. Combining approaches of speculative fiction, documentary research, and performance, Nguyen’s work proposes counter-mythologies.

Nguyen’s work has been presented at the Museum of Modern Art; MIT List Center for Visual Arts; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea; Vienna Secession; The Everson Museum; The Dowse Art Museum; e-flux; Frieze Seoul Film; The International Studio & Curatorial Program; Murmurs; op.cit.; Signs and Symbols; KAJE; Microscope Gallery; Ann Arbor Film Festival; International Film Festival Oberhausen; CPH:DOX; Edinburgh International Film Festival; True/False Film Festival; Open City Documentary Festival; and Channels Festival International Biennial of Video Art, among others.  Alison Nguyen has received residencies and fellowships from Pioneer Works, International Studio & Curatorial Program, The Institute of Electronic Arts, BRIC, and Squeaky Wheel Film and Media Art Center. She has been awarded grants from the NYFA Artist Fellowship in Film/Video, NYSCA, Wave Farm’s Media Art Assistance Fund, the Foundation for Contemporary Art, and The New York Community Trust. In 2018 Alison Nguyen was featured in Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film.” Her work has been reviewed in publications such as e-flux, Frieze, Film Comment, Screenslate, The Brooklyn Rail, and Art Papers.

Alison Nguyen received her M.F.A. in Visual Art from Columbia University and her B.A. in Literary Arts from Brown University. She was a 2023-2024 Studio Fellow at the Whitney Independent Study Program. Since 2022 Nguyen has taught Video, Digital Art, and Independent Critique as an Adjunct Professor in Steinhardt’s BFA Studio Art program at New York University. Previously she has served as a Visiting Assistant Professor in Bard College’s Film & Electronic Arts Program Guest and as a Guest Lecturer at numerous institutions and organizations including Saas Fee Summer Institute of Art; Cooper Union; University of Buffalo; The New School; Rhode Island School of Design; The University of Syracuse; The School of Visual Arts; and Sotheby’s Institute of Art.

Degrees Held

M.F.A. Columbia University; B.A. Brown University

Professional Affiliation

The Whitney Independent Study Program, Studio Arts Fellow 

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