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TRONG G. NGUYEN is an artist and curator based in New York. He has exhibited nationally and internationally in both solo and group exhibitions, including Sequences 2006 (Iceland), 9th Havana Biennial (Cuba), Conflux 2007 (Brooklyn), and Performa 05 (New York). Later this Fall, Trong will be doing a one-person show at the Fruit and Flower Deli in the Lower East Side. As a curator, he has organized numerous exhibitions, including By Invitation Only (Kinz, Tillou, + Feigen), The Guy Debord Show (New General Catalog), and Who? Me? (Zabriskie Gallery). Trong has received grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Harvestworks Digital Media Center, Bronx Museum of the Arts, and Puffin Foundation. He currently serves on the Fashion in Film Festival advisory board and has previously lectured at Location One, New York University, Columbia University, Icelandic Art Academy, and Catalyst Foundation. Recently Trong finished writing a "lost chapter" to The Da Vinci Code based on the secret love life of Marcel Duchamp.

Born in Saigon, Vietnam. Lives and works in New York City.

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 SOLO/COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITIONS
2008
Forthcoming: Fruit and Flower Deli, New York, NY
2007
Four New Projects. Superbien, Berlin, Germany
All You Need Is Love. Articule, Montreal, Canada
Art Hijack Inauguration. Monkeytown, Brooklyn, NY
2006
Stolnar Stundir. Monkeytown, Brooklyn, NY
All You Need Is Love. NGC 224 and Paloma, Brooklyn, NY
Humanitarians Not Heroes (Five-Alive). Tenri Cultural Institute, New York, NY
2005
L’Agent des trois. Covivant Gallery, Tampa, FL
2004
The Art Collection of Rick Haatj. The Roger Smith Hotel, New York, NY
Humanitarians Not Heroes: shäp. Lab Gallery, New York, New York
Fading Photograph. La Lunchonette, New York, New York
1998
Sighing Reveille. USF Teaching Gallery, Tampa, Florida

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008
Forthcoming: Open House New York, New York, NY
Forthcoming: Sequences Real Time Festival, Reykjavik, Iceland
From Brooklyn with Love. Parker's Box, Brooklyn, NY
Skipping the Page. Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
2007
The Dotted Line. Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
The Greatest. Bleu Acier, Tampa, FL
Show Your ID. HQ, Brooklyn, NY
Secret Clubhouse. Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY
In Pursuit. ISE Foundation, New York, NY
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
2005
Frisbee Fair. Cavalier Hotel, Miami, FL
Performa 05: The Performance Biennial. Artists Space, New York, NY
Float. Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
Art L.A. Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, CA
Waterways, as part of the 2005 Istanbul Biennial. Istanbul, Turkey
Waterways. Venice, Italy
US/UK. Three Colts Gallery, London, England
Style Sessions. MILK Gallery, New York, NY
2004
The Holiday Shopping Show III. Wallspace Gallery, New York, NY
Night of a Thousand Drawings. Artist Space, New York, NY
NOW: Contemporary Asian American Artists. Empire State Ballroom, New York, NY
Bush-Whack! George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
The Peekskill Project. Peekskill, NY
Doing Business: Dysfunctional Corporate Culture
Curated by Barry Rosenberg.University of Connecticut Contemporary Art Galleries, Storrs and Stamford, CT
2003
Objects for Joseph Cornell. ZieherSmith Gallery, New York, New York
The Holiday Shopping Show II. 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 www.drivedrive.com
100 $mack$ Covivant Gallery, Tampa, Florida
Iron On! Nexus Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2002
The Brewster Project: New York Stories. Brewster, New York.
1998
7 x7. Deland Museum of Art, Deland, Florida
1997
Three Deep. Centre Gallery, Tampa, Florida

CURATORIAL ACTIVITIES
2007
The Guy Debord Show, New General Catalog, Brooklyn, NY
Girls of the Third Situ8ionist International Summit (Conflux 2007), New General Catalog, Brooklyn, NY
Hungarian Flag Football (DUMBO Arts Festival), Hungarian Cultural Center, Brooklyn, NY
Nicole Schuck + Anne Katrin Stork: Hostcreatures, New General Catalog, Brooklyn, NY
By Invitation Only, Kinz, Tillou + Feigen, New York, NY
Kristen Schiele: Gothicolor, New General Catalog, Brooklyn, NY
Alix Soubiran: Princes and Crows, New General Catalog, Brooklyn, NY
2006
Peekskill Project|, Peekskill, NY
Darri Lorenzen: Round Here, New General Catalog, Brooklyn, NY
Jason Irwin: An Observing List of Not Found Objects, New General Catalog, Brooklyn, NY
Seasons in the Sun: Fall with Jim Holyoak, New General Catalog, Brooklyn, NY
The Thief, the Cook, His Wife, Her Lover, and Their Dinner Guests, New General Catalog 224, Brooklyn, NY
Doing Lines: Paul de Guzman and Christian Nguyen, New General Catalog 224, Brooklyn, NY
2005
The One. New General Catalog 224, Brooklyn, NY
Devil’s Devil’s Nite! Lab Gallery, New York, NY
Eleven Nguyens and the Thirty Year Loss. PH Gallery, New York, NY
2004
amBush! Van Brunt Gallery, New York, NY
EA50. HERE Arts Center, New York, New York
GENART: Ignite. Puck Building, New York, New York
From New York with Love. Covivant Gallery, Tampa, Florida
2003
Miraculous: Contemporary Exvotos Paintings. chezTGN, Brooklyn, New York
Free Association: 1: Arnis Balcus. chezTGN, Brooklyn, New York
Take Out. Zabriskie Gallery, New York, New York
Who? Me? Role Play in Self-Portrait Photography. 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
The Devil Made Me Do It. 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. Gallery at 145, St. Petersburg, Florida

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2008
Beck, Ernest ,"Treasure Troves," Worth Magazine, April/May
Snofried,"Fruit and Flower Deli," BLEND Magazine, March
Lewis, Jacquelyn, "Relaxing at PooL, Bustling at Bridge," www.artinfo.com, March 28
2007
Wolff, Rachel, "Art Collective Makes Shakespeare More Like the Bachelor," New York Magazine, December 13
Redfern, Christine, "Matchmaker, Matchmaker," Montreal Mirror, August 16-22
Psyllos, Steven, "Creative Collectives," Trace Magazine, September
Ackermann, Tim, "Rebellion in the Living Room," ArtNet, March 6
2006
Shapiro, Daria Brit, “Trong Nguyen’s Signature,” New York Arts Magazine, May/June
Johnson, Ken, “Humanitarians Not Heroes,” New York Times, January 27.
Mannerheim, Jenny, “Humanitarians Not Heroes,” Nuke Magazine: Mission Issue, December/January.
Mackin, Carrie, “Bottle Talk,” New York Arts Magazine, March/April.
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 New Media Artist Residency (New York, NY)
2006
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Residency (New York, NY)
2005
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Artist Grant (New York, NY)
Puffin Foundation Artist Grant (New York, NY)
2004
Change Inc. Artist Grant (New York, NY)
2003
Bronx Museum Artists in the Marketplace Award (Bronx, NY)