Alison Nguyen

Alison Nguyen is a visual artist and filmmaker working across video, installation, and sculpture. Her practice combines the particulars of personal experience with broader inquiries into forces of history. Through speculative fiction, text, and embodied performance, Nguyen creates works that ask us to reconsider how narratives operate within the individual, the institution, and within the politics of cultural memory.

Nguyen’s work has been presented at the Museum of Modern Art; MIT List Center for Visual Arts; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea; Vienna Secession; The Everson Museum; e-flux; The International Studio & Curatorial Program; KAJE; Murmurs LA; Are Basel Hong Kong Encounters; Frieze Seoul Film; Ann Arbor Film Festival; International Film Festival Oberhausen; CPH:DOX; and Channels Festival International Biennial of Video Art, among others.

The artist 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 Studio Fellow at the Whitney Independent Study Program. Her work has been reviewed in publications such as Art in America, Frieze, Film Comment, e-flux online, The Brooklyn Rail, and Art Papers.