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MAYA NGUYEN



MN is a Vietnamese-Russian interdisciplinary artist with a focus on sound performance and diasporic making. She gathers speech fragments, urban recordings, body movements, migratory routes, sounds imitating nature sounds, and videos of daily life into open-ended compositions. These often take the shape of performance lectures, sound installations, movement works, and videos.

But no single material choice defines her practice. Instead, she works through ambiguity and interaction across borders: making a commitment of not committing to just one side, but to a multiplicity of sides; to the mix of different sound channels; to the touch of different bodies. Through these material interactions, she exposes power relations inherent in interaction and the environments that facilitate them, focusing on the domestic sphere, colonial histories, migratory routes, and the relating between the human and the natural world.



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B.A. Philosophy and Comparative Literature
The University of Chicago 2018

M.F.A Sound 
School of the Art Institute of Chicago 2023 

Exhibitions/Performances:
Vincom Center for Contemporary Art (Hanoi), Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik (Berlin), UCLA New Wight Gallery (Los Angeles), Manzi Art Space (Hanoi), Berlin Art Week 2024 (Berlin), World Forum For Acoustic Ecology 2023 (Florida), Internationales Digitalkunst Festival 2022 (Stuttgart), Terrain Biennial 2021 (Chicago), Watershed Art & Ecology (Chicago), Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics (Colorado), and elsewhere.

Currently based in Chicago; co-curator of Sound-Lab Series;
AV for Poetry Foundation.

            

mayaknguyen@gmail.com


2025 - 2026
arts club fellow, chicago

february 23, 2025
sound workshop
softnoiseskillshare, chicago

march - april, 2025
saari residency, finland
funded kone foundation

april 24, 2025
night school, chicago





     


may 24, 2025
murmuration gallery, chicago

july 18, 2025
elastic arts, chicago

july - sept, 2025
new media gallery, seattle