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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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RUNNING OUT OF HAND


Fiber Series 17”x 26”

Woman Made Gallery
Chicago, US Aug 2024

UCLA New Wight Biennial 2022
Los Angeles, US Sept - Oct 2022

Maclean Center
Chicago, US Nov 2021 

︎︎︎https://goarts.ucla.edu/events/the-new-wight-biennial-2022


︎︎︎https://womanmade.org/artwork/maya-nguyen/

“Running Out Of Hand” is a series of fiber works based on the photographic archive from the Vietnam War with America (1955-75). Images of refugee families are condensed down to the physical gesture of bodies gripping one another in flight.


The New Wight Biennial 2022: Between the Self and its True Home, curated by Farshid Bazmandegan and Rachel Hakimian Emenaker, highlights multidisciplinary works from artists exploring ideas of exile, diaspora, and migration.

Between the Self and its True Home features the work of 27 artists from across the globe, which encompass some of the many stories of the present-day challenges which the artists have experienced due to race, ethnicity, gender, religion, war, and persecution. It proposes that the work of these artists in between their current home and former home (whether ancestral or physical) has created a place for timely and meaningful work across places and borders.