Photo by Annie Ling
Courtesy of the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, and London
Ep.120 features Tammy Nguyen, a multimedia artist whose work spans painting, drawing, printmaking and book making. Intersecting geopolitical realities with fiction, her practice addresses lesser-known histories through a blend of myth and visual narrative. She is the founder of Passenger Pigeon Press, an independent press that joins the work of scientists, journalists, creative writers, and artists to create politically nuanced and cross-disciplinary projects.
Born in San Francisco, Nguyen received a BFA from Cooper Union in 2007. The year following, she received a Fulbright scholarship to study lacquer painting in Vietnam, where she remained and worked with a ceramics company for three years thereafter. Nguyen received an MFA from Yale in 2013 and was awarded the Van Lier Fellowship at Wave Hill in 2014 and a NYFA Fellowship in painting in 2021. She was included in Greater New York 2021 at MOMA PS1 and has also exhibited Smack Mellon, Rubin Museum, The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre in Vietnam, and the Bronx Museum, among others. Her work is included in the 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, among others. She is an Assistant Professor of Art at Wesleyan University and represented by Lehmann Maupin, New York, Seoul, London.
Artist https://tammynguyenstudio.com/
Passenger Pigeon Press https://www.passengerpigeonpress.com/
Lehmann Maupin
https://www.lehmannmaupin.com/index.php/artists/tammy-nguyen/featured-works
Hess Flatow https://hesseflatow.com/artworks/1219-tammy-nguyen-realm-of-nous-2021/
Lit Hub https://lithub.com/author/tammynguyen/
MoMA PS1 https://www.moma.org/artists/133740
Carnegie Council https://www.carnegiecouncil.org/people/tammy-nguyen
Marguo https://www.marguo.com/artists/67-tammy-nguyen/
Smack Mellon https://www.smackmellon.org/exhibition/tammy-nguyen-freehold/
Hyperallergic 2017 https://hyperallergic.com/398645/tammy-nguyen-potrait-of-a-young-artist-from-new-york-to-vietnam-and-back/
In the Heart of Rimland, 2021
Watercolor, vinyl paint, pastel, and metal leaf on paper stretched over panel
84 x 60 inches
Photography by JSP Art Photography
Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, and London
Anno Domini 40, 1945, 1969, 2022
Watercolor, vinyl paint, pastel, and metal leaf on paper stretched over panel
72 x 108 inches
Photography by Chris Gardner
Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, and London
As we swam out, the sun kissed our wet faces, 2021
Watercolor, vinyl paint, pastel, and metal leaf on paper stretched over wood panels
20 x 16 inches
Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, and London
Angels Below, 2021
Watercolor, vinyl paint, pastel, and metal leaf on paper stretched over panel
30 x 24 inches
Photography by JSP Art Photography
