PIPONGUYEN-DUY
ABOUT
Pipo Nguyen-duy
Guggenheim Fellow
Professor Studio Art Department
Oberlin College . Oberlin, OH 44074
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