Trong Gia Nguyen
° 1971
Lives in New York City (United States).
Trong Gia Nguyen is a Brooklyn-based artist and curator who has exhibited internationally in numerous exhibitions including solo gallery shows in New York, Berlin, and Ho Chi Minh City.
Group shows include The Sixth Borough on Governors Island, Performa, Sequences Real Time Festival in Iceland, and the Havana Biennial. He has received grants from LegalArt Miami, Museum of Art and Design (New York), Artist in Residency in the Everglades, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Harvestworks Digital Media Center, Bronx Museum of the Arts, and Puffin Foundation. As a curator, Trong founded the experimental space New General Catalog (2005-07) and has organized over 25 exhibitions. He has written articles and contributed interviews to various publications including Art:21, New York Arts Magazine, and Flavorpill. Trong currently serves on the advisory boards of the Fashion in Film Festival, EFA Project Space, and Florence Artist in Residency (FAIR) Program.
He has also sat on various panels and guest-lectured at the Cue Foundation, Latvia Center for Contemporary Art, Location One, New York University, School of Visual Arts, Columbia University, Icelandic Art Academy, and Catalyst Foundation.
Works
>Trong Gia Nguyen, Notes from the Invisible Box of Valery Osser, 2008.Book, ink, paper, 15.6 x 23.4 cm, 752 p, language: English, publisher: Self-Published, ISBN: N/A.
Exhibitions & Ensembles
> Exhibition: Book Lovers 4.0 (Pop-up Bookstore). 28 January 2014 - 02 February 2014.
> Exhibition: THE BOOK LOVERS - A Project about Artist Novels. 25 January 2013 - 09 March 2013.
> Exhibition: The Preparation of the Novel (Book Lovers 5.0). 18 July 2014 - 05 September 2014.
> Exhibition: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE ARTWORK BECOMES A NOVEL?. 07 December 2012 - 21 April 2013.
> Ensemble: The Artist's Novel.