Alison Nguyen United States, b. 1986

Alison Nguyen is a New York-based artist whose work spans video, installation, performance, and sculpture. Her work has been presented at the Museum of Modern Art, MIT List Center for Visual Arts, Storefront for Art and Architecture, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea, The Everson Museum x Lightwork, Vienna Secession, The Dowse Art Museum, e-flux, The International Studio & Curatorial Program, Ann Arbor Film Festival, International Film Festival Oberhausen, CPH:DOX, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Channels Festival International Biennial of Video Art, True/False Film Festival, Open City Documentary Festival, and Microscope Gallery, gdm Taipei, AC Gallery Beijing, op.cit., Signs and Symbols, KAJE, Hartnett Gallery, and The University of Oklahoma, among others.

Nguyen has received residencies and fellowships from the Pioneer Works, 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 the NYFA Artist Fellowship in Film/Video, NYSCA, Wave Farm’s Media Art Assistance Fund, the Foundation for Contemporary Art, and The New York Community Trust. In 2018 Alison Nguyen was featured in Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film.”

Alison Nguyen received her M.F.A. in Visual Art from Columbia University and her B.A. in Literary Arts from Brown University. She was a 2023-2024 artist in the Whitney Independent Studies Program.

Nguyen serves as an Assistant Professor in NYU’s BFA Studio Art Program in Steinhardt School of Professional Studies and in the BFA Photo Program at the New School’s Parson’s School of Design. From 2024 - 2025 she was a Visiting Professor in Bard College’s Film and Electronic Arts Program. She has been a Guest Lecturer and Visiting Critic at numerous institutions and organizations including e-flux, Cooper Union, University of Buffalo, The New School, New York University, Rhode Island School of Design, The School of Visual Arts, and Sotheby’s Institute of Art.