Meet Artist Pipo Nguyen Duy in Hue City

Fri 15 Jun 2018, 7 pm
Then Cafe
63 Le Trung Dinh, Hue City

From the organizer:

Returning to the city of his birth, artist and photographer Pipo Nguyen-Duy will give a talk at Then Cafe, a new creative hub in Hue City, Central Vietnam. This talk will highlight Pipo’s practice in photography and his renowned projects including (My) East of Eden, AnOther Expedition: Monet’s Garden, and Hotel (Pictures from In-between).

This program is a part of IAP’s exchange lecture series on art and art practice. In Vietnam, we collaborate with various local artist-run space to host the program. This time, we are honored to work with Then Studio, an emerging art space in Hue City founded by artist Tran Tuan.

About Pipo Nguyen Duy

Pipo Nguyen-Duy was born in Hue, Vietnam. Growing up within thirty kilometers of the demilitarized zone of the 18th Parallel, he describes hearing gunfire every day of his early life He immigrated to the United States as a political refugee.
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Pipo has taken on many things in life in pursuit of his diverse interests. As a teenager in Vietnam, he competed as a national athlete in table tennis. He also spent some time living as a Buddhist monk in Northern India. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics at Carleton College. He then moved to New York City, where he worked as a bartender and later as a nightclub manager. While living in the East Village and meeting people such as musician Don Cherry and artist Keith Haring, Pipo interests turned to art. He earned a Master of Arts in Photography, followed by a Master of Fine Arts in Photography, both from the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque.
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Pipo has received many awards and grants including a Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography, a National Endowment for The Arts, an En Foco Grant; a Professional Development Grant from the College Arts Association; an American Photography Institute’s National Graduate Fellowship, NYC; a fellowship from the Oregon Arts Commission in Salem, Oregon; a B. Wade and Jane B. White Fellowship in the Humanities at Oberlin College; and two Individual Artists Fellowship from the Ohio Arts Council in Columbus, Ohio. He participated as an artist-in-residence at Monet’s Garden through The Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Artists at Giverny Fellowship, at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California, in Light Work’s Artist-in-Residence program.

The talk will be in English with translation to Vietnamese

Free admission
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