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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 works. These often take the shape of performance lecture, sound installation, movement, and video.



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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), Saari Residency (Mynämäki, Finland), 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), Jack Straw Cultural Center (Seattle) and elsewhere.

Currently based in Chicago; AV for Poetry Foundation.

            

mayaknguyen@gmail.com


2026 - 2028
chicago artist coalition fellowship


2025 - 2026

arts club fellowship, chicago

march - april, 2025
saari residency, finland

sept 3 - 11, 2025
open studios with do trong quy, hanoi

july 11 - sept 12, 2025
jack straw gallery, seattle (solo show)

april 9 - july 31, 2026
goethe-institut chicago (solo show)









     


2026 - 2028

akademie schloss solitude fellowship


april 18 - june 13, 2026
somad gallery, nyc (group show)


may 2, 2026
gray center at university of chicago

may 17 - 31, 2026

ramona residency, houston

june 20, 2026
weserstudio54, berlin

august 7, 2026
arts club fellowship event, chicago