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MAYA NGUYEN



MN is a Vietnamese-Russian interdisciplinary artist with a focus on critical sound performance and diasporic making. She gathers speech fragments, urban recordings, body movements, migratory routes, sounds imitating nature sounds, and videos of daily encounters 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 human interaction and the environments that facilitate these interactions, 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


dec 9, 2023
murmuration, chicago

nov 10 - dec 15, 2023
john mooney foundation, chicago

aug 4, 2023
manzi art cafe, hanoi

july 20, 2023
OPENHAUS ZK/U, berlin

june 1 - july 31, 2023
ZK/U, berlin

     


may 12 - 23, 2023
SAIC galleries, chicago

may 7, 2023
mayfield, chicago

april 21-23, 2023
northwestern university, chicago

april 9, 2023
experimental sound studio, chicago