BIO
Alison Nguyen’s work explores the ways in which images are produced, disseminated, and consumed within the current media landscape, exposing the socio-political conditions from which they arise. Creating strategies for dissent, she re-articulates mainstream cinematic language in unsettlingly seductive installation, video, and sculptural works that generate a self-aware gaze within which the viewer becomes both producer and consumer of their own spectacle.
Nguyen has received residencies and fellowships from the International Studio & Curatorial Program, The Institute of Electronic Arts, BRIC, Squeaky Wheel Film and Media Art Center, Signal Culture, and Vermont Studio Center. She has been awarded grants from NYSCA and The New York Community Trust.
EXHIBITION HISTORY
2019
-Channels Festival: International Video Art Biennial, Melbourne, Australia, 2019
-Ungrounded, International Studio & Curatorial Program, Brooklyn, NY, 2019
-Fractured Habitats, AC Gallery, Beijing, China, 2019
-True / False Film Festival, Columbia, MO, 2019
-Open City Documentary Festival, London, 2019
-ISCP Summer Open House, International Studio & Curatorial Program, Brooklyn, NY, 2019
-San Diego Underground Film Festival, San Diego, CA, 2019
-Regarding the Wild, Chashama, Brooklyn, NY, 2019
-Maryland Film Festival, Baltimore, MD, 2019
-Transient Visions Festival of the Moving Image, Johnson City, NY, 2019
-ISCP Spring Open Studios, International Studio & Curatorial Program, Brooklyn, NY, 2019
2018
-Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2018
-Crossroads, SF MoMA/SF CInemateque, San Francisco, CA, 2018
-San Diego Underground Film Festival, San Diego, CA, 2018
-Start from Scratch Not Two Steps Back, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong, 2018
-Unseen Film Festival, Denver, CO, 2018
-Marfa Film Festival, Marfa, TX, 2018
-True / False Film Festival, Columbia, MO
-Dessert-Disaster, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, 2018
-Sojourn Cinema, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco Art Book Fair, San Francisco, CA, 2018
-Collapse, Then What?, Centre des arts actuels Skol, Montreal, Quebec, 2018