Beyond the Visible – A Group Exhibition at the Ground Floor Gallery Space, Pfizer Building (630 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn)

‘Beyond the Visible’ is a group exhibition featuring works by Cole Lu, Alison Nguyen, Catalina Ouyang, and Kanthy Peng and curated by Jennifer (Chia-ling) Ho and Min Sun Jeon. The exhibition seeks to bring together works that uncover the particularities of hidden social and technological infrastructures to reorient our understanding of the visible in a world heavily mediated by the images, materials, and languages we perceive and speak.

I will be showing a new video installation of my 2019 video work every dog has its day. The Exhibition will run from Feb. 7 – Feb. 23 at the Ground Floor Gallery Space, Pfizer Building (630 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11206).

Collection of Recollection – A Group Exhibition in Tokyo

‘Collection of Recollection’ is a group exhibition revolving around works that look back on past events to track down their traces. Featuring both domestic and international artists, regardless of nationalities, genders and ages, the exhibition “collects” past events via works with themes and topics based on the history of a specific place or personal experience of each artist.

I am showing my 2017 video work you can’t plan a perfect day sometimes it just happens. The exhibition will run from Feb. 7 – Feb. 13 at Yotsuya Unconfirmed Studio (4-13-1 Yotsuya, Shinjuku Ku, Tokyo To, 160-0004, Japan).

Contemporary + Digital Art Fair (Miami)

I will be showing a single-channel version of my 2017-2018 video work Dessert-Disaster at the Contemporary and Digital Art Fair (CADAF) in Miami. The fair takes place from Dec. 5 – Dec. 8.

Fall Open Studios at ISCP

The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) Fall Open Studios is a two-day exhibition of international contemporary art presented by the 37 artists and curators from 25 countries currently in residence.

Twice a year only, ISCP offers the public access to private artists’ and curators’ studios to view artwork and share one-on-one conversations. Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, ISCP invites the public to engage in dialogue around contemporary art with arts professionals from across the globe.

I will be screening a rough cut of my latest work, Andra8 (my favorite software is being here) alongside my 2017 double-channel installation, Dessert-Disaster. Studios will be open November 15th and 16th with a reception from 6 – 9 on Friday the 15th.

Ungrounded, group exhibition at the International Studio & Curatorial Program (NYC)

October 8th - December 6th. 2019

Ungrounded is a group exhibition featuring the work of the seven artists in residence in ISCP’s Ground Floor Program. The exhibition considers—from many vantage points—today’s political, social, and ecological urgencies. Works include a compilation of words in need of safeguarding painted by Danilo Correale; Simone Couto’s multimedia presentation of immigrant stories spanning 150 years in 2 x 2; Furen Dai’s two-dimensional work examining global census forms; Mariajosé Fernández-Plenge’s photographic exploration of the fine line between mental illness and compulsive habits in Small Obsessions; Jude Griebel’s latest figurative sculpture highlighting dystopic paranoia; Joshua Liebowitz’ Proof Burdens – No1, an ongoing multimedia project investigating grievance in the United States; and Alison Nguyen’s every dog has its day, a video made with consumer-produced media highlighting the connections between religion, self, and technology.

Artists in the exhibition: Danilo Correale, Simone Couto, Furen Dai, Mariajosé Fernandez-Plenge, Jude Griebel, Joshua Liebowitz, and Alison Nguyen.

Ungrounded is organized by Alexandra Friedman, Programs Associate, ISCP.

More info:
https://iscp-nyc.org/event/ungrounded

Channels Festival International Biennial of Video Art (Melbourne, Australia)

Open City Documentary Festival (London)

Screening my video ‘every dog has its day’ at Open City Documentary Festival in London.

September 9, 7pm
The Bertha DocHouse
Curzon Bloomsbury
The Brunswick
London

https://opencitylondon.com/events/shorts-on-the-border/

International Studio & Curatorial Program's Summer 2019 Open House (NYC)

July 17th, 2019
6-9pm

The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) announces the second edition of Summer Open House, an evening of live performances and studio presentations.

Summer Open House will include three live performances curated by Hsiang Huang (Curator and CEO, Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art, Taiwan) with assistance from Alexia Pierre. From 6:15-7:00pm, artists Paolo Bini, Joshua Liebowitz and Honkasalo-Niemi-Virtanen will present new performance works outdoors on the loading dock of ISCP. Rhythmic and fluid, the performances are choreographed around three points of entry and exit. Each performance will articulate a new form of exchange and dialogue, engendering audience participation through the use of objects, spoken word or physical gestures.

The 37 artists and curators from 23 countries in residence at ISCP will open their studios to the public from 7-9pm.

Schedule:
6:15-7pm: Performances by Paolo Bini, Joshua Liebowitz and Honkasalo-Niemi-Virtanen
7-9pm: Resident studios open to the public

'Dessert-Disaster' in group exhibition at AC Gallery (Beijing)

Opening May 24, 2019

AC Gallery
798 Arts District
Beijing, China

Maryland Film Festival

My new video work ‘every dog has its day’ (2019) will be screening at the Maryland Film Festival May 11-12. More screening information here and below:

ISCP's Spring Open Studios 2019

I’m excited to be taking part in the International Studio & Curatorial Program’s Spring Open Studios March 29-30. You can find out more information about it here.

Workspace Residency at Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Center (Buffalo, NY)

I will be a Workspace Resident at Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center from March 9-23, 2019. As a part of my residency I’ll be working on a new project, teaching a class ‘The Conflicted Image’, and doing an artist talk.

'Regarding the Wild' exhibition (NYC)

March 3 - March 31, 2019

Opening Reception: Friday, March 8th, 6 - 9PM

One Brooklyn Bridge Place
(waterfront side of) 
360 Furman Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201

Gallery Hours: Saturdays and Sundays 11AM - 6:30PM

Curated by Basia Goszczynska, Regarding the Wild brings together paintings, sculptures, cyanotypes, drawings and a video installation by Nellie Appleby, Matt Arbuckle, Jason Baerg, Heidi Daehler, Jeffrey Heiman, Delphine Hennelly, Jodie Mack, Debby Miller, Alison Nguyen, Sharon Norwood, Ben Pederson, Gabriel Ramos and Alexander Stark.

you can't plan a perfect day sometimes it just happens by Alison Nguyen, Hd video installation, single channel, color, sound, 10'w x 5' 7 1/2"h x 1' 3 3/4"d custom projection screen, 8 minute loop, 2017 - 2019

you can't plan a perfect day sometimes it just happens by Alison Nguyen, Hd video installation, single channel, color, sound, 10'w x 5' 7 1/2"h x 1' 3 3/4"d custom projection screen, 8 minute loop, 2017 - 2019

True/False Film Festival 2019 (Columbia, MO)

My short video ‘every dog has its day’ will premiere at True/False Film Festival on March 1st at 7:45pm.

https://truefalse.org/program/shorts/

‘every dog has its day’ explores the notions of iconicity, immortality, and terror in consumer-produced media. Drawing from home movies, social media, surveillance, and videos created by religious cults/extremists, the appropriative work explores the porous visual relationships between domestic intimacy, terror and technology.

"...agitation, irritation, self-reflexivity, random acts of violence, narcissism, feedback loops of constructed selves, instant history and cultural amnesia all collide in mirror-play, pseudo-remembrance and denial." 
-Bradley Eros