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ABOUT

REVIEWS

Pipo Nguyen-duy

Guggenheim Fellow

Professor Studio Art Department  

Oberlin College .  Oberlin, OH 44074

 pipo@oberlin.edu

 piponguyen-duy.com

 

BIO

b.1962 . Hue,Vietnam

Working and resides in USA

 

 

EDUCATION

 

MFA, Photography, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

NATIONAL GRADUATE SEMINAR, American Photography Institute, Photography Department, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, NY

B.A., Economics, Carleton College, Northfield, MN

 

 

REPRESENTATIONS

ClampArt, New York

 

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2025   Assimulation.ClampArt , NY

2023   (My) East of Eden. Cur. Hoor Al-Quasimi  Sharjah Biennial. Kalba Kindergarten, 

            Emirate of Sharjah

2019   (My) East of Eden, ClampArt, NY

           Hotel Window, ClampArt, NY

2017   AnOther Expedition, ClampArt, NY

2016    AnOther Expedition, 2731 Prospect Contemporary Art Gallery, Cleveland, OH

2015    AnOther Expedition. Espace,. Hanoi and Hue, Vietnam        

2010    East of Eden: Vietnam. Light Works. Syracue, NY

 

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

2024 In Touch. Cur. Mega Young. Riffle Gallery, Ohio Arts Council. Columbus, OH

2023  Daegu Photo Biennial. Cur. Michel Frizot & Ying-Lung Su. Daegu Art Center, Daegu. S.Korea

2022  AIPAD. ClampArt. New York, NY

           Symphony No 3: Altered Landscape, A collaboration between The Reno Philharmonic and The Nevada              Museum of Art. Nevada Museum of Art. Reno, NV

2019  “From North to South and beyond: A Vietnamese photographic journey” Angkor Photo      

          Festival. Angkor Wat. Siem Reap, Cambodia

          Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War 1965-1975. Curator: Robert Cozolino 

          Minneapolis Institute of Art. Minneapolis, MN

          Eyes on Main Street, A Crossroads of Cultures. Wilson, N.Carolina

2018  SPACES 40th Anniversary. SPACES. Cleveland, Ohio 

2017 Conversation: Past and Present in Asia America. Cur. Kevin Greenwood. Allen Art Museum, Oberlin.Ohio

          TRANSLUCENT,McKenzie Fine Art Inc. New York, NY

           Selection from the LightWork Collection. Kathleen O Ellis Gallery, Syracuse, NY

           PEACE ART SHOW, touring New Mexico and Japan, curated by Tom Powel

           AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY INSTITUTE FELLOWS, Tisch School of the Arts, NY

           THE NICKEL MATINEE, The ASA Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

            JURIED GRADUATE SHOW, curated by Eleanor Heartney, The Johnson Gallery,University of New Mexico, NM

 

 

GRANT & AWARDS

 

2021  OHIO ART COUNCIL GRANT, Ohio Art Council, Columbus, OH

2020 UNESCO.  Photography Department, Director.Vietnam

2017  Ohio Arts Council Award of Excellence . Photography. Columbus , OH

2016   H.H. POWERS TRAVEL GRANT, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH

2013    H.H. POWERS TRAVEL GRANT, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH

2011    John S. Guggenheim Fellowship, Guggenheim Foundation, NY

H.H. POWERS TRAVEL GRANT, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH

            ARTIST’S ANGEL AWARD. Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

            THE LILA WALLACE-READER’S DIGEST ARTISTS at GIVERNY, Lila Wallace & Reader’s 

            Digest Fund, managed by Arts International, NY

 

SELECTED LECTURES & PRESENTATIONS

 

2024 A dust of life. Convocation Lecture. Carleton College

 

2023 Pipo Nguyen-duy. Penland School of Crafts . Penland, NC

 

2022 Pipo Nguyen-duy. MATCA. Hanoi, Vietnam

         Authenticity: Contemporary Vietnamese Photography. World Press Photo. HCMCT, Vietnam

2020  Pipo Nguyen-duy, Fulbright University. Ho chi Minh City, Vietnam

          Pipo Nguyen-duy, Greenfield Community College. Greenfield, VT

2018  Pipo Nguyen-duy, Indochina Arts Partnership. Hue , Vietnam

2016  Center of Photography , Woodstock. Woodstock, NY

          Sao La, Contemporary Arts Space. Saigon, Vietnam

          AnOther Expedition. Prospect Gallery. Cleveland, OH

 

 

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

 

2004    LIGHTWORK, Syracuse, NY

 

2001    HEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS.  Sausalito, CA

 

 

CURATORIAL & PANELS

 

2022   Hong Kong Photography Festival. 

 

2006    Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, Photography Panel, New Jersey Arts 

            Council, Maryland Arts Council, Pennsylvania Arts Council

 

 

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

2024 BOMB, Winter 2024. Portfolio: Quarantine. Intro by Greer Hobbs

          Male Bodies Unmade: Picturing Queer Selfhood  Jongwoo Kim. Introduction. 

            University ofCalifornia Press

 

 

2023   Portfolio/ Un paradiso ritrovato, Christian Caujolle. Internazionale, March. Italy

 

2022   East of Eden: New Life grows in lands destroyed by Agent Orange. Strangers Guide: Vietnam.

 

2021   Equity in Art: Photographing Home. Ideastream, Carrie Wise. 

           https://indepth.ideastream.org/Oberlin-Vietnamese-photographer-Pipo-Nguyen-duy/index.html

           Pipo Nguyen-duy. A Photographer’s lifelong exploration of home. Art Canvas, PBS 

           https://artscanvas.org/arts-culture/a-photographers-lifelong-exploration-of-home

           Pipo Nguyen-duy: AnOther Western. LensCratch, Erica Cheung

           http://lenscratch.com/2021/05/pipo-nguyen-duy-2/

    

2019   Remembering Childhood during the Vietnam, by Pipo Nguyen-duy. Jona Cuenin. Picto, New York

           April 18

           Pipo Nguyen-duy, Hotel Window@ ClampArt. Loring Knoblauch. Collector Daily, April 1st

           “ The Eden of Pipo Nguyen-duy”. Diep Nguyen. MATCA, Feb 23rd

 

2017   Pipo Nguyen-duy, ClampArt. Donald Kuspit. ARTFORUM, April,2017 

          

2014    Gender and Race in Vietnamese American Culture: Queer Passivity in the Work of Pipo Nguyen-duy. Takashi Aso. Transcommunication, Graduate School of International and Communication Studies. Vol 1 pp 105-111

           Images of Vietnam: A Future Beyond War, Brian Miller. Art Hopper. 
http://arthopper.org/images- of-vietnam-a-future-beyond-war/

            Pipo Nguyen-duy Interview. Asian American Oral History Project. Emily Flanagan. De Paul         

            University. http://via.library.depaul.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1068&context=oral_his_series

 

2013    Contemporary Art About Architecture: A Strange Utility. edited by Isabelle Loring Wallace, Nora   Wendl. AshGate Pub

            En Foco: In Focus. Pipo Nguyen-duy Jessica Juliao. California Institute of Integrated Studies

 

2012    Art Photo Index. A global, searchable compendium of vetted art & documentary photographers and their work.http://www.artphotoindex.com/api/#photographer/Pipo-Nguyen-duy/14029

 

2011    The Altered Landscape: Photographs of a Changing Environment. The Nevada Museum of Art. 

Pub. Rizzoli, Dis. Random House. Essays byAnn M. Wolfe, Lucy Lippard, W.J.T Mitchell and Geoff Manaugh

 

, Dan Tranberg. The Plain Dealer, Arts & Life. Wednesday, September 26, page E1 & 10.

‘Faculty Exhibition’ at the Schneider Museum of Art’. Isaac Peterson. Artweek, June 2001, Volume 32. Issue 6, Review.

RE-IMAGING THE WEST: A NEW HISTORY, Alicia Miller, pages 5-8. CAMERA WORK. Volume 28, No.1, Spring/Summer 2001.

VISUAL VISITATIONS: CONNECTING PAST & PRESENT PHOTOGRAPHIC REALITIES. Theresa Harlan, pages 11-14. CAMERA WORK. Volume 28, No.1 Spring/Summer 2001             PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY. Marissa Olson, pages 23 - 26. CAMERA WORK. Volume 28, No.1, Spring/Summer 2001.

 

 

 

 

 

TELEVISION AND RADIO INTERVIEWS

 

2021    Equity in Art: Photographing Home – Ideastream. NPR. WCPN

2015    AnOther Expedition , interview with Pipo Nguyen-duy. National Television. Vietnam

2007    “Sound Exchange”, East of Eden exhibition interviewed by Jay Kugelman & Loretta Ayeroff, KPFK (90.7 FM), September 21 (www.kpfk.org - search under Audio Archive).

 

2006    WCNY, Syracuse, New York.

 

2005    Around Noon, The Dian Rehm Show. WCPN, Cleveland, Ohio, November 21.

 

1996    AN INTERVIEW WITH PIPO. KALX, Berkeley, California, May 16.

 

 

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

 

Guggenheim Foundation

Progressive Insurance

Houston Museum of Fine Arts

Cleveland Clinic, Ohio

Las Cruces Museum of Fine Art. Las Cruces, New Mexico

International Peace Center, Tokyo, Japan

N.E.A Archive, The Smithsonian, Washington, DC

EN FOCO, Bronx, New York

U.S. EMBASSY, Laos

George Eastman House, Rochester, New York

Light Work, Syracuse, New York

Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark

Nevada Museum of Art

Banana Republic

University Hospitals. Cleveland, Ohio

Wellin Museum. Hamilton College. Clinton, NY

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