Tuan Andrew Nguyen
Bio
Tuan Andrew Nguyen was born in 1976 in Saigon, Viet Nam. In 1979, he and his family emigrated as refugees to the United States. Nguyen graduated from the Fine Arts program at the University of California, Irvine, in 1999 and received his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 2004. He has had solo presentations at the New Museum (2023), Fundació Joan Miró (2024), Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (2024), and Smithsonian American Art Museum (2024). His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Singapore Art Museum; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and Whitney Museum of American Art, among many others.
Artwork details
The Unburied Sound of a Troubled Horizon
, 2022Single-channel video installation4004×3096p, 5.1 Surround Sound, 60 min, Film Still 01
The Unburied Sound of a Troubled Horizon
, 2022Single-channel video installation4004×3096p, 5.1 Surround Sound, 60 min, Film Still 01
A Rumble Across The Sky
, 2022Stainless steel (bomb metal)149 5/8 × 118 1/8 × 118 1/8 inches
Blast
, 2024155mm artillery shells, brass from artillery shell, pounded brass from artillery shells, powder coat, concrete72 × 94 1/2 inches
The Sounds of Cannons Familiar Like Sad Refrains
, 2021Two-channel video installation1920 × 1080p each channel, Stereo, 9 min 41 sec
The Unburied Sound of a Troubled Horizon, 2022. Single-channel video installation. 4004×3096p, 5.1 Surround Sound, 60 min, Film Still 01.