Trong Gia Nguyen (b.1971, Saigon, Vietnam) is a Vietnamese- American artist living and working in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. His wide array of works examines structures of power in their myriad forms, scrutinizing the soft foundation upon which contemporary life plays out, often behind the façade of fairness, sincerity, security, tradition, and civility. Regularly employing humour while at other times engaging sober reflection, Nguyen’s work elevates the condition of doubt as it reveals the undercarriage of our most trusted spaces –domestic, cultural, political, and economic-, labouring to disrupt the mundane while walking the fine line between joy and sorrow, subtlety and blatancy, night and light, and beauty and beast.
Recent exhibitions include California Pacific Triennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport, CA, USA (2017); The Foliage, Vincom Center for Contemporary Art, Hanoi, Vietnam, (2017); The Others, Piazzale Valdo Fusi, Torino, Italy (2015); Eye on the Storm, Housatonic Museum of Art, Connecticut, USA (2013); Satellites in the Night, Freies Museum, Berlin, Germany (2010), The Sixth Borough, New York, USA (2010); Sequences, Reykjavik, Iceland (2008); and Performa 05, Artists Space, New York, USA (2005). Public collections include: 21c Museum Hotels (USA), Cornell Museum of Fine Arts (USA), Dvorak Sec Contemporary (Prague, Czech Republic), Museum of Contemporary Art (Antwerp, Belgium), The Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (USA), University of Technology (Sydney, Australia).


#MeToo
Trong Gia Nguyen
2018
Plexi mirror and wood frame
90 x 71 x 3.7 cm

Who's the Whitest of Them All
Trong Gia Nguyen
2018
Plexi mirror and wood frame
173 x 99 x 3.7 cm

sNOwflake
Trong Gia Nguyen
2018
Plexi mirror and wood frame
90 x 71 x 3.7 cm

Enid, Adams Street
Trong Gia Nguyen
2017
Oil pastel on canvas, mounted C-print
88.9 x 88.9 cm

Enid, West Oak
Trong Gia Nguyen
2017
Oil pastel on canvas, mounted C-print
79.4 x 100.6 cm

Saigon, Loc Vinh
Trong Gia Nguyen
2017
Oil pastel on canvas, mounted C-print
101.6 x 76.2cm
Trong Gia Nguyen – The Last State
01 - 20 December 2018
Richard Koh Projects,
Unit A, 3rd Floor,
N22 Art Warehouse,
2198/10-11 Narathiwas Road Soi 22,
Chong Nonsi, Yannawa,
109210 Bangkok, Thailand
Tuesday - Saturday, 10am - 7pm
Trong Gia Nguyen – Executive Orders
21 - 23 September 2018
Opening reception / Art After Dark
21 September (Friday), 7-11pm
Richard Koh Fine Art,
1 Lock Road, #01-01
Gillman Barracks
Singapore 108932
ART – staged : No Booth
25 - 27 January 2019
Richard Koh Fine Art
Blk 47 Malan Road,
#01-26 Gillman Barracks,
Singapore 109444
10am - 7pm
Taipei Dangdai 2019
17 January 2019
VIP Preview, 2 - 5pm
Vernissage, 5 - 9pm
18 - 20 January 2019
Open for public
Booth F08
Taipei Dangdai - Art & Ideas
Taipei Nangang Exhibiton Center,
Taipei, Taiwan.