Tuan Andrew Nguyen
Tuan Andrew Nguyen explores the power of storytelling through video and sculpture, reworking colonial histories and supernaturalisms into imaginative vignettes. As a starting point, the artist often uses micro-narratives, lived stories, or singular objects, which he transforms into repositories and indicators of traumas that have been concealed by official history, especially ones caused by colonialism, war, and forced migration.
Nguyen has had solo presentations at the New Museum (2023), Fundació Joan Miró (2024), Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (2024), Smithsonian American Art Museum (2024), and Art Institute of Chicago (2025). Nguyen has received numerous awards, including the 2023 Joan Miró Prize, the 2025 Trellis Art Fund Milestone Grant, and the 2025 MacArthur Fellowship. [Source: VOX, 2025]
