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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.

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 puts power relations in action, focusing on the domestic sphere, colonial histories, movement geographies, and the relating between human and natural worlds.



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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


2025 - 2026
arts club fellow, chicago

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

april 24, 2025
music box, chicago

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

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











     


2026 - 2028

chicago artist coalition residency


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

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


may 2, 2026
gray center (university of chicago)

may 15, 2026
goethe-institut, chicago (performance)

may 17 - 31, 2026

ramona residency, houston