Artist Talk: Curating – An Artist’s Perspective
Tue 24 May 2016, 3 pm
Heritage Space
From Heritage Space:
Heritage Space warmly invites you to attend the talk “Curating: An Artist’s Perspective”, given by artist/curator Trong Gia Nguyen.
Trong Gia Nguyen will be speaking about his experiences of working over 15 years as a full time artist and independent curator in both the United States and abroad. Most recently, Nguyen curated the inaugural exhibition TechNoPhobe at the newest and most ambitious contemporary art space in Ho Chi Minh City, the Factory Contemporary Arts Center. In addition to being an artist, Nguyen has also worked in numerous capacities at galleries, institutions, alternative and not-for-profit spaces, universities, online and hard publications, art fairs, PR firms, and many others. His diverse and wide ranging experience, from artist to gallery director, to blogger, critic, panelist, professor, art handler, etc., contributing a unique vantage point on the inner workings of the art world in scenes and cities big and small. In 2001, he produced a yearlong project in which he played a number of these “roles,” using Ebay as a medium to inventory everything inside his Brooklyn apartment. Currently Nguyen is working on a documentary film about his family’s immigration, which influenced last year’s solo show “The Leavers” at Galerie Quynh in Saigon.
About the artist:
Trong Gia Nguyen is based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and Brooklyn, New York. He received his MFA in Painting from the University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida, USA). In the role of curator, he has organized over 25 exhibitions in the United States and abroad, including TechNoPhobe (The Factory, Ho Chi Minh City, 2016), All Florida Show (Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida, 2014), and Satellites in the Night (Friese Museum, Berlin, 2010). He has exhibited internationally in numerous exhibitions, including solo shows in New York, Frankfurt, Berlin, and Ho Chi Minh City. Nguyen has received grants and residencies from the Museum of Arts & Design (New York, USA), Artist in Residence in the Everglades, LegalArt Miami (USA), Foundation for Contemporary Arts (New York, USA), Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (New York, USA), Harvestworks Digital Media Center (New York, USA), Bronx Museum of the Arts (New York, USA), and Puffin Foundation (New Jersey, USA). He has written articles and contributed interviews to various publications including Art:21, New York Arts Magazine, and ArtSlant. Trong has sat on panels and guest-lectured at the Cue Foundation (New York, USA), Latvia Center for Contemporary Art (Riga), Location One (New York, USA), New York University (USA), School of Visual Arts (New York, USA), Columbia University, (New York, USA), Icelandic Art Academy (Reykjavik), and Catalyst Foundation (Washington, D.C., USA). He has served on the advisory boards of The Elizabeth Foundation (New York), Fashion in Film Festival (London), Florence Artist in Residency, and others.
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Free entry.
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