EDUCATION
1998 MFA in Painting
University of South Florida
Tampa, Florida

1995 BFA in Painting and Drawing, Minor in Art History
University of Central Florida
Orlando, Florida

SELECTED EXHIBITION HISTORY
2007 From Our Living Room to Yours
Goff + Rosenthal, Berlin, Germany

2006 Sequences: Real Time Festival
Safn Foundation, Reykjavik, Iceland

9th Havana Biennial
Fortress of the Three Kings, Havana, Cuba

Humanitarians Not Heroes (Five-Alive)
Tenri Cultural Institute, New York, NY

2005 L’Agent des trois
Covivant Gallery, Tampa, FL

Messages from Guantanamo
Townhouse Hotel, Miami, FL

Sonic Godiva
In partnership with Performa 05: The Performance Biennial
Curated by Barbara Hunt and Rose Lee Goldberg
Artists Space, New York, NY

Float
Curated by Sara Resiman.
Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY

Waterways, as part of the 2005 Istanbul Biennial
As the two-person collective Art Hijack with Elana Rubinfeld.
Curated by Renee Vara.
Istanbul, Turkey

Waterways
As the two-person collective Art Hijack with Elana Rubinfeld.
Curated by Renee Vara.
Venice, Italy

US/UK
Curated by Koan Jeff Baysa and Ryan Lemke
Three Colts Gallery, London, England

Style Sessions
Curated by William Quigley.
MILK Gallery, New York, NY

Art L.A.
As the two-person collective Art Hijack with Elana Rubinfeld.
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, CA

2004 The Holiday Shopping Show III
Curated by Robin Kahn.
Wallspace Gallery, New York, NY

Night of a Thousand Drawings
Artist Space, New York, NY

A Private View: The Art Collection of Rick Haatj
As the two-person collective Art Hijack with Elana Rubinfeld.
The Roger Smith Hotel, New York, NY

NOW: Contemporary Asian American Artists
Curated by Katherine Chan for the Asian Americans for Equality (AAFE) 30th Anniversary Gala.
Empire State Ballroom of the Grand Hyatt, New York, NY

Bush-Whack!
Artists include James Barsness, Sue Coe, Lesley Dill, Peter Saul, and others.
George Adams Gallery, New York, NY

The Peekskill Project
Curated by Alison Levy
Peekskill, NY

Doing Business: Dysfunctional Corporate Culture
Curated by Barry Rosenberg. Artists include: Andrew Chan, Christoph Draeger, Roe Etheridge, Etoy, Maria Friberg, Hans Haake, Eric Heist, Nick Kline, Mark Lombardi, Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, David Opdyke, Danica Phelps, Mike Peter Smith, and David Wojnarowicz.
University of Connecticut Contemporary Art Galleries, Storrs and Stamford, CT

Humanitarians Not Heroes: shäp (an installation by Trong G. Nguyen)
the 'lab' gallery, New York, New York

Fading Photograph
La Lunchonette, New York, New York

2003 Objects for Joseph Cornell
ZieherSmith Gallery, New York, New York

The Holiday Shopping Show II
Curated by Robin Kahn
Wallspace Gallery, New York, New York

The Affordable Art Fair
Mai's Gallery, New York, New York

AIM 23: Artists in the Marketplace
Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York.

150 Artists Make 150 Shirts
Daniel Silverstein Gallery, New York, New York

The Diabolical and Dubya Says on DriveDrive.Com. Exhibition hosted on this conceptual art site curated by Moritz Gaede that includes other projects by artists such as Charmaine Wheatley, Kelly Mark, and Mouchette.
www.drivedrive.com

100 $mack$
Covivant Gallery, Tampa, Florida

Iron On!
Nexus Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2002 The Brewster Project: New York Stories, curated by Paul Laster.
Brewster, New York.

1998 Sighing Reveille
USF Teaching Gallery, Tampa, Florida

7 x7
Deland Museum of Art, Deland, Florida

1997 Three Deep
Centre Gallery, Tampa, Florida

CURATORIAL ACTIVITIES
2006 Peekskill Project
Peekskill, NY

The Thief, the Cook, His Wife, Her Lover, and Their Dinner Guests
Art Hijack, Mary Walling Blackburn, Rodney Dickson, Eh-Team, Tim Hailey, Jessica Higgins, Peter Kastner, Tianna Kennedy and the Anne Frank Band, McKendree Key, Miwa Koizumi, Jana Leo, Gareth Mahon, Jillian McDonald, Will Rawls, Jennifer Sullivan, Charmaine Wheatley, more.
New General Catalog 224, Brooklyn, NY

Doing Lines: Paul de Guzman and Christian Nguyen
New General Catalog 224, Brooklyn, NY

2005 The One (reviewed in New York Arts Magazine, Zing Magazine)
With eleven guest curators and twelve artiists, including David Bowie, Elin Hansdottir, Marla Hlady, Emily Jacir, Katerina Seda, and others.
New General Catalog 224, Brooklyn, NY

Devil’s Devil’s Nite! (reviewed in New York Arts Magazine)
Featuring artists from Time Stereo, including Davin Brainard, Warn Defever, Jamie Easter, Dion Fischer, Sarah Lapinsky, Ronald Cornelissen, MOG, and Hitoko Sakai.
Lab Gallery, New York, NY

Eleven Nguyens and the Thirty Year Loss
Artists include Cat, Christian, Christine, Dustin, Han, Hoang, Liza, Long, Pipo, Rodney, and Stephen Nguyen.
PH Gallery, New York, NY

2004 amBush! (reviewed in New York Times, Time Out New York, and Village Voice). Artists include Melanie Baker, Enrique Chagoya, Paul Clay, R. Crumb, Rodney Dixon, Dj Spooky, Elise Engler, Rover Feyer, Leon Golub, Daniel Goodwin, David Humphrey, Jon Kessler, Klaus Pamminger, Moises Saman, Guy Richards Smit, and others.
Van Brunt Gallery, New York, NY

EA50: HEREArt's 8th Annual Unusual Emerging Art Exhibition and Raffle
Guest curators select five emerging artists each to participate in an event that has "emerged" artists such as Amy Cutler, Ellen Harvey, and William Pope L. Other curators this year include Franklin Sirmans, Lydia Yee, Amy Sadao, Edwin Ramoran, Janet Phelps, and Rocio Aranda-Alvarado.
The American Living Room, New York, New York

GENART: Ignite.
Puck Building, New York, New York

From New York with Love. Artists include Angel Borrego, Fritz Chesnut, A Constructed World, Rodney Dickson, Eric Doeringer, Katy Grannan, Terence Koh, Jana Leo, Dan Levenson, Jillian McDonald, Ryan McGinley, Gabriele Picco, Praxis, Karen Sorenson, Charmaine Wheatley, Edwina White, and Abbey Williams.
Covivant Gallery, Tampa, Florida

2003 Miraculous: Contemporary Exvotos Paintings. 67 artists, including: Markus Baenziger, Shelly Bahl, Chris Ballantyne, Christin Couture, Rodney Dickson, David Humphrey, Shelley Jackson, Jenifer Kobylarz, Benjamin La Rocco, Paul Laster, Dominick Lombardi, Jackson McDade, Buxton Midyette, Suicide Pants, Charmaine Wheatley, Eric Wheeler, and Edwina White.
chezTGN, Brooklyn, New York

Free Association: 1: Arnis Balcus. First exhibition in New York City of this Latvian photographer. Free Association is a collaborative series of exhibitions that combine the visual and aural in a casual environment at the curator's studio/gallery.
chezTGN, Brooklyn, New York

Take Out (reviewed in New York Times, New York Sun, Time Out New York, and Village Voice). Artists in show included Noriko Ambe, Robin Clark, Paul de Guzman, Marla Hlady, and Courtney Smith.
Zabriskie Gallery, New York, New York

Who? Me? Role Play in Self-Portrait Photography (reviewed in ArtNews, New York Times, New Yorker, New York Sun, Time Out New York, and Village Voice). Artists in show included Cindy Sherman, Tomoko Sawada, Ike Ude, David Henry Brown, Orlan, Luigi Ontani, Yosamasa Morimura, Renee Cox, Ben Vautier, and others.
Zabriskie Gallery, New York, New York

Curatorial Assistant for Kiki of Montparnasse; Surrealist Collage; Marcel Duchamp: On Display; Six American Painters and the Photograph; Dorothea Tanning: Collages, Drawings, Watercolors, and a Sculpture.
Zabriskie Gallery, New York, New York

2000 Curated The Devil Made Me Do It. Inaugural exhibition at
Covivant Gallery, Tampa, Florida

Curatorial Assistant for Henri Michaux; Watercolors and Gouaches.
Zabriskie Gallery, New York, New York

1998 art in the service of politics, POLITICS IN THE SERVICE OF ART. Artists in the show included, among others: Diane Elmeer, Sarah Howard, David McDaniel, Olu Oguibe, and Eduardo Rabel.
Gallery at 145, St. Petersburg, Florida

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2006 Johnson, Ken, “Humanitarians Not Heroes,” New York Times, January 27.

Mannerheim, Jenny, “Humanitarians Not Heroes,” Nuke Magazine: Mission Issue, December/January.

2005 Daily News, November 20.

Asteak, Quinn, “Booty Call,” Paper Magazine. November.

Murkett, Sarah, “Eleven Nguyens and the Thirty Year Loss at PH Gallery,” New York Arts Magazine, September/October.

“Float,” Time Out New York, August 25-31.

Johnson, Ken, “Eleven Nguyens and the Thirty Year Loss,” New York Times, July 8.

2004 Krudy, Catherine, “Theatrical Openings,” New York Arts Magazine. December 14.
Hrbacek, Mary, “Art Hijack,” M: The New York Art World Magazine. December 2004.

2003 Genocchio, Benjamin, “Biting the Hand That Feeds Them,” The New York Times. December 7.

Rosenberg, Karen. "Market Share," Village Voice, August 27-September 2.

Laster, Paul. "AIM 23," FlavorPill, July 15-21.

2002 Streitfeld, L.P. "The Brewster Project Wires the Zeitgeist," The Advocate and Greenwich Time. July 21.

bkyn, version 2 online visual arts journal, edited by Paul Laster.

Nii, Yuko. "The Scene - Williamsburg," New York Arts Magazine. Volume 7, number 3, March.

2001 Tan, Shannon. "...Possessions on Web," Northwest Arkansas News. September 16.

Baumgartel, Tilman. "The Sell-Out Artists," Eyestorm online journal. April 30.

Ebay Iventory Project. Online performative project archived on Rhizome.Org.

Doonan, Simon. "Try Purging the Boom Years and Start the New Age Clean," The New York Observer. March 26.

Mirapaul, Matthew. "The New Canvas," The New York Times. February 5.

AWARDS
2007 Harvestworks Artist Residency

2006 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Residency

2005 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Artist Grant

Puffin Foundation Artist Grant

2004 Change Inc. Artist Grant

2003 Bronx Museum Artists in the Marketplace Award