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Exhibition HistoryOne Day We’ll Go Home, Media Art Gallery, Emerson Contemporary, Boston, MA, November 1 - December 16, 2023
Tuan Andrew Nguyen: It Was What Is Will Be, Marabouparken Konsthall, Sundbyberg, Sweden, February 18 - April 16, 2023
The Boat People, Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State University, Witchita, KS, January 26 - May 6, 2023
Here After, Bridge Projects, Santa Monica, CA, April 7 - July 30, 2022
STILL ALIVE, 2022 Aichi Triennale, Japan, July 20 - October 20, 2022
Our Blue Planet: Global Visions of Water, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, March 18 - May 30, 2022
The Boat People, The Contemporary Dayton, Dayton, OH, November 11, 2021 - January 16, 2022
The Boat People, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, August 6, 2021 - January 1, 2022
Everyone is an Artist: Cosmopolitical Exercises with Joseph Beuys, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany, March 27 - August 15, 2021
Stories of Resistance, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St Louis, MO, March 12 - August 15, 2021
Phase 01: A Wet Run Rehearsal of the 13th Shanghai Biennale, The 13th Shanghai Biennale: Bodies of Water, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China, November 10 - November 14, 2020
KINO DER KUNST International Competition 2020, Munich, Germany, October 27 - November 1, 2020
21st San Diego Asian Film Festival, San Diego, CA, October 23 - October 31, 2020
Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE, September 19, 2020 - January 3, 2021
The Boat People, Vdrome Online, July 8 - July 21, 2020
State Affairs #6: Tuan Andrew Nguyen and The Propeller Group, State of Concept, Athens, Greece, July 2 - July 17, 2020
A Lotus in a Sea of Fire, James Cohan, 291 Grand Street, February 28 - July 2, 2020
Published ReferencesTuan Andrew Nguyen: Radiant Remembrance, 1st Edition, edited by Vivian Crockett, Ian Wallace. Foreword by Lisa Phillips. Text by Zoe Butt, Catherine Quan Damman, Eungie Joo, Christopher Myers, Nghiêm Phái Thu Linh. Interview by Vivian Crockett. 280 pgs. New York: New Museum, October 10, 2023
Strömbäck Eklund, Jesper, "Rebuilding Vietnam’s Traumatic Histories with Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn,"ArtReview, April 3, 2023
Lai, Ophelia, “A Voice from the Silence,” artasiapacific, Nov/Dec 2021
Aima, Rahel, “At the Edge of: Tuan Andrew Nguyen,” Mousse Magazine, October 15, 2020
Nys Dambrot, Shana, “Art Pick: Tuan Andrew Nguyen: The Boat People,” LA Weekly, July 17, 2020
Ingawanji, May Adadol, “‘Tuan Andrew Nguyen: The Boat People,” Vdrome, July 8, 2020
Lam, Amy, “Reimagining Futurity: An Online Exhibition of Tuan Andrew Nguyen,”diaCritics, May 6, 2020
Chiu, Vivian, “Tuan Andrew Nguyen: The Limits of Narrative,” Ocula, April 17, 2020
Wong, Harley, “Tuan Andrew Nguyen’s Mystical Art Brings People in TouchWith Lost Ancestors,” ARTnews, April 8, 2020
Currently based in Vietnam, Tuan Andrew Nguyen is an accomplished artist who works primarily in the mediums of video and sculpture, often in collaboration with external partners.... Like much of his work, The Boat People staddles fact and fiction, imagination and research...
DMAC News, Jan Feb Mar Apr 2024, pp. 12-14
Exhibition HistoryOne Day We’ll Go Home, Media Art Gallery, Emerson Contemporary, Boston, MA, November 1 - December 16, 2023
Tuan Andrew Nguyen: It Was What Is Will Be, Marabouparken Konsthall, Sundbyberg, Sweden, February 18 - April 16, 2023
The Boat People, Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State University, Witchita, KS, January 26 - May 6, 2023
Here After, Bridge Projects, Santa Monica, CA, April 7 - July 30, 2022
STILL ALIVE, 2022 Aichi Triennale, Japan, July 20 - October 20, 2022
Our Blue Planet: Global Visions of Water, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, March 18 - May 30, 2022
The Boat People, The Contemporary Dayton, Dayton, OH, November 11, 2021 - January 16, 2022
The Boat People, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, August 6, 2021 - January 1, 2022
Everyone is an Artist: Cosmopolitical Exercises with Joseph Beuys, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany, March 27 - August 15, 2021
Stories of Resistance, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St Louis, MO, March 12 - August 15, 2021
Phase 01: A Wet Run Rehearsal of the 13th Shanghai Biennale, The 13th Shanghai Biennale: Bodies of Water, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China, November 10 - November 14, 2020
KINO DER KUNST International Competition 2020, Munich, Germany, October 27 - November 1, 2020
21st San Diego Asian Film Festival, San Diego, CA, October 23 - October 31, 2020
Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE, September 19, 2020 - January 3, 2021
The Boat People, Vdrome Online, July 8 - July 21, 2020
State Affairs #6: Tuan Andrew Nguyen and The Propeller Group, State of Concept, Athens, Greece, July 2 - July 17, 2020
A Lotus in a Sea of Fire, James Cohan, 291 Grand Street, February 28 - July 2, 2020
Published ReferencesTuan Andrew Nguyen: Radiant Remembrance, 1st Edition, edited by Vivian Crockett, Ian Wallace. Foreword by Lisa Phillips. Text by Zoe Butt, Catherine Quan Damman, Eungie Joo, Christopher Myers, Nghiêm Phái Thu Linh. Interview by Vivian Crockett. 280 pgs. New York: New Museum, October 10, 2023
Strömbäck Eklund, Jesper, "Rebuilding Vietnam’s Traumatic Histories with Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn,"ArtReview, April 3, 2023
Lai, Ophelia, “A Voice from the Silence,” artasiapacific, Nov/Dec 2021
Aima, Rahel, “At the Edge of: Tuan Andrew Nguyen,” Mousse Magazine, October 15, 2020
Nys Dambrot, Shana, “Art Pick: Tuan Andrew Nguyen: The Boat People,” LA Weekly, July 17, 2020
Ingawanji, May Adadol, “‘Tuan Andrew Nguyen: The Boat People,” Vdrome, July 8, 2020
Lam, Amy, “Reimagining Futurity: An Online Exhibition of Tuan Andrew Nguyen,”diaCritics, May 6, 2020
Chiu, Vivian, “Tuan Andrew Nguyen: The Limits of Narrative,” Ocula, April 17, 2020
Wong, Harley, “Tuan Andrew Nguyen’s Mystical Art Brings People in TouchWith Lost Ancestors,” ARTnews, April 8, 2020
DimensionsRunning Time: 20min.
Accession Number 2023.32
Classificationstime based media
Edition4/5
Provenance(James Cohan Gallery, New York); Des Moines Art Center [purchased from the previous, 2023]