Trong G. Nguyen

TRONG G. NGUYEN

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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 2008 (Iceland), 9th Havana Biennial (Cuba), Conflux 2007 (Brooklyn), and Performa 05 (New York). As a curator, he has organized numerous exhibitions, including Never Late Than Better (EFA Project Space), By Invitation Only (Kinz, Tillou, + Feigen), The Guy Debord Show (New General Catalog), and Who? Me? (Zabriskie Gallery). His shows have been reviewed in the New York Times, Time Out New York, Paper, The Believer, Trace, Village Voice, and many other publications.

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 guest-lectured at Latvia Center for Contemporary Art, School of Visual Arts, Location One, New York University, Columbia University, Icelandic Art Academy, and Catalyst Foundation.

By day Trong is the East Coast Editor at Artslant. His texts and interviews have appeared in Art:21, New York Arts Magazine, and Flavorpill. Recently he finished writing a "lost chapter" to The Da Vinci Code based on the secret love life of Marcel Duchamp

E trongish at gmail.com

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

E D U C A T I O N

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

S E L E C T E D ...S O L O / C O L L A B O R A T I V E ... E X H I B I T I O N S

2010	Forthcoming: Signature Series. 7.9cm, Kingston University, London, England
2009	*Food for Thought*. Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
2008	The Most Dangerous Show on Earth. Fruit & Flower Deli, New York, NY
2007	Ready Set Sail! 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, NY Fading Photograph. La Lunchonette, New York, NY
1998	Sighing Reveille. USF Teaching Gallery, Tampa, Florida

S E L E C T E D ...G R O U P ... E X H I B I T I O N S

2009	Power to the Brand, Museum of Contemporary Art, Banja Luka, Republika Srpska Dis/Believer, curated by Neysa Page-Lieberman. Columbia College, Chicago, IL Vietnam Mon Amour. MC2 Gallery, Milan, Italy Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Chess. Francis Naumann Fine Art, New York, NY PTA Bake Sale and Spaghetti Dinner, Koelsch Gallery, Houston, TX Broken Tales, curated by Rainer Ganahl, Shanghai Theatre Academy, Shanghai, China No Title, EXHIBITION 211, curated by Nathalie Angles, New York, NY Responding to Cuba, Maloney Art Gallery, College of Saint Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ Volta NY. New York, NY Paper Exhibition, curated by Raimundas Malasauskas. Artists Space, New York, NY
2008	Once Upon a Time. ISE Foundation, New York, NY Open House New York. New York, NY Sequences Real Time Festival. Dwarf Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland I'll Be Your Mirror... Heist Gallery, New York, NY 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	Eleven Nguyens and the Thirty Year Loss, PH Gallery, New York, NY 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

C U R A T O R I A L ...A C T I V I T I E S

2010	Forthcoming: We Free. Freies Museum, Berlin, Germany
2009	Never Late than Better. EFA Project Space, New York, NY The Future of Panel Discussions / The Glorified Docent. EFA Project Space, New York, NY
2007	The Guy Debord Show. New General Catalog, Brooklyn, NY Hungarian Flag Football. Hungarian Cultural Center and DUMBO Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY *By Invitation Only. Kinz, Tillou, and Feigen Gallery, New York, NY Hostcreatures: Nicole Schuck and Anne Katrin Stork. New General Catalog, Brooklyn, NY Darri Lorenzen: Round Here*. New General Catalog, Brooklyn, NY
2006	*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 Seasons in the Sun: Summer with Fred Thomas and Soma Wingelaar. New General Catalog, Brooklyn, NY The Thief, the Cook, His Wife, Her Lover, and Their Dinner Guests*. New General Catalog, Brooklyn, NY
2005	*Doing Lines: Paul de Guzman and Christian Nguyen. New General Catalog, Brooklyn, NY The One. Artists included Deborah Aschheim, Elena Bajo, David Bowie, Elin Hansdottir, Marla Hlady, Emily Jacir, Katerina Seda, and others.New General Catalog, 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! Artists included Melanie Baker, Critical Art Ensemble, R. Crumb, David Humphrey, Jon Kessler, Dj Spooky That Subliminal Kid,and others.Van Brunt Gallery, New York, NY GenArt: Ignite. Puck Building, New York, NY EA50: HEREArt’s 8th Annual Artist Raffle Installation. HEREArt, New York, NY *From New York with Love. Artists included Katy Grannan, Terence Koh, Ryan McGinley, Praxis, and others. Covivant Gallery, Tampa, FL Nails Nails Nails*. Broadway Spa, New York, NY
2003	Miraculous: Contemporary Exvotos Paintings. chezTGN, Brooklyn, NY Free Association: 1: Arnis Balcus. chezTGN, Brooklyn, NY Take Out. Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY
2002	Who? Me? Role Play in Self-Portrait Photography. Artists included: Dieter Appelt, Claude Cahun, Countess de Castiglione, Tseng Kwong Chi, Renee Cox, Joan Fontcuberta, Anthony Goicolea, Nikki Lee, Ari Marcopoulos, Mariko Mori, Yasumasa Morimura, Luigi Ontani, Orlan, Adrian Piper, Man Ray, Tomoko Sawada, Cindy Sherman, Iké Udé, Ben Vautier, and others. Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY
2000	The Devil Made Me Do It. Inaugural exhibition at Covivant Gallery, Tampa, Florida
1998	art in the service of politics, POLITICS IN THE SERVICE OF ART. Gallery at 145, St. Petersburg, Florida

R E V I E W S

2009	Cotter, Holland, “Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Chess,” New York Times, October 23 Avery, Dan, “Get Smart,” New York Post, March 5 Gritz, Anna, “Paper Exhibition,” Frieze, February 13
2008	Meis, Morgan, “Classified Report from ‘The Secret Club House,’” Believer Magazine, November/December 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 Online, December 13 Psyllos, Steven, “Creative Collectives,” Trace Magazine, September Redfern, Christine, “Matchmaker, Matchmaker,” Montreal Mirror, August 16-22 Debatty, Régine, “From Our Living Room to Yours,” We Make Money Not Art, March 5 Ackermann, Timothy, “Rebellion in the Living Room,” Artnet, March 7
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	"Sonic Godiva Music Fest," Daily News, November 20 Asteak, Quinn, “Booty Call,” Paper Magazine. November Murkett, Sarah, “Eleven Nguyens and the Thirty Year Loss,” 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	Levin, Gail, “Drawing Conclusions,” Gallery HD Krudy, Catherine, “Theatrical Openings,” New York Arts Magazine. December Hrbacek, Mary, “Art Hijack,” M: The New York Art World Magazine. December
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. March.
2001	Tan, Shannon. "...Possessions on Web," Northwest Arkansas News. September 16 Baumgartel, Tilman. "The Sell-Out Artists," Eyestorm online journal. April 30 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

A W A R D S

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)
1998	Bronx Museum Artists in the Marketplace Award (Bronx, NY)

P U B L I C A T I O N S

2008	Nguyen, Trong, Notes from the Invisible Box of Valerie Osser Parker, Graham, Skipping the Page. Exhibition catalogue
2007	Goldberg, RoseLee, Performa
2004	Levin, Gail, Drawing Conclusions, Gallery HD
2003	AIM 23: Artists in the Marketplace. Exhibition catalogue Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York