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MAYA NGUYEN


Based in Chicago, b. 1996, VN/RUS, Interdisciplinary Performer. Nguyen incorporates disparate (and often clashing) material sources into forms that remain conceptually indeterminate, such as performance lectures, sound improvisation, and participatory sculptural interventions. Her favored materials include: speech fragments, mistranslations, painful sounds, urban recordings, sounds imitating nature sounds, breast pump parts, internet debris, and videos of daily life.
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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.