STUDIO 2023 - 2024 Whitney Independent Study Program
BIO
Alison Nguyen’s practice combines the particulars of the personal with an exploration into broader forces of history, specifically those entwined with technology. Weaving together approaches of research, performance and narrative, her moving image works and installations contain speculative worlds where fiction and non-fiction meet.
Her work has been presented at MIT List Center for Visual Arts, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea, The Everson Museum, Vienna Secession, The Dowse Art Museum, The International Studio & Curatorial Program, op.cit.,AC Gallery Beijing, Signs and Symbols, KAJE, Hartnett Gallery, and The University of Oklahoma, among others. Her screenings include: Museum of Modern Art, e-flux, Ann Arbor Film Festival, International Film Festival Oberhausen, CPH:DOX, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Channels Festival International Biennial of Video Art, True/False Film Festival, Open City Documentary Festival, The Jewish Museum, and Microscope Gallery.
Nguyen is a 2023-2024 Studio Artist in the Whitney Independent Study Program. She has received residencies and fellowships from the International Studio & Curatorial Program, The Institute of Electronic Arts, BRIC, Squeaky Wheel Film and Media Art Center, Signal Culture, and Vermont Studio 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,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. Nguyen serves as an Adjunct Professor in New York University’s BFA Program and has been a Guest Lecturer and Visiting Critic at numerous institutions and organizations including e-flux, Cooper Union, University of Buffalo, The New School, New York University, Rhode Island School of Design, The School of Visual Arts, and Sotheby’s Institute of Art.