Artist Bio
Alison Nguyen is a New York-based multidisciplinary artist whose work focuses primarily on the conceptual relays between photography, text, and installation art. Born in 1986, she grew up in New Jersey and later attended Brown University where she combined her B.A. in Literary Arts (2009) with art classes at the Rhode Island School of Design.
Awards include Mensa’s Maggie Mandleblatt Writing Award and The Nikon Scholarship for the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops. She's received fully-funded artist residencies at organizations such as the Palovista Ranch in New Mexico (2010) and The Flux Factory in New York (2011-2012).
Nguyen has shown her work widely at venues including The Rogue Space (NY, 2011), 440 Gallery (NY, 2011), Target Gallery (VA, 2011), Studio X (NY, 2011), and Gallery Hanahou (NY, 2010). In addition she created a site-specific solo exhibition in a re-appropriated space, The Westside Gun Range (NY, 2010).
Alison’s images have been published in the New York Times, La Petite Zine and in will be featured in O.H.W.OW. Gallery Press’ forthcoming book Random Attitudes. Her writing has been featured in publications such as Art & Revelry, The New York Times, Juxtapoz online, The Center for Alternative Photography’s Journal, and the Journal of New Jersey Poets.
Upcoming projects include her second solo exhibition "Irreversible Damage" (NY, July 2012) and participation in two group shows: “Transferred” at the Red Filter Fine Art Photography Gallery (NJ, March 2012) and “Eye-Spy” at the Flux Factory (NY, April 2012).