Meet Tuan Andrew Nguyen, a multidisciplinary artist and 2025 #MacFellow giving aesthetic form to histories of war, displacement, resistance, and resilience. He grounds his films and sculptures in the histories of communities grappling with intergenerational traumas of war and displacement, in places ranging from his native Vietnam to the Philippines, Senegal, Papua New Guinea, and the United States. Much of his work explores moving images and material objects as repositories of memory and the po
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Meet Tuan Andrew Nguyen, a multidisciplinary artist and 2025 #MacFellow giving aesthetic form to histories of war, displacement, resistance, and resilience. He grounds his films and sculptures in the histories of communities grappling with intergenerational traumas of war and displacement, in places ranging from his native Vietnam to the Philippines, Senegal, Papua New Guinea, and the United States. Much of his work explores moving images and material objects as repositories of memory and the po
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How does this artist uses 57mm shells from American War in Vietnam?
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How does this artist uses 57mm shells from American War in Vietnam?
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Tuan Andrew Nguyen returns to Vietnam “In a very kind of subconscious way, I wanted to return to Vietnam to liberate myself from this idea of home that I could never grasp while I was growing up in the US. Now, I think there is no home.” Tuan Andrew Nguyen (@tuan.andrew.nguyen) moves between locales, histories, and cultures, using the power of storytelling to exorcize the ghosts that linger across generations. “I don't think that being in between worlds is something that limits us. That liminali
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Tuan Andrew Nguyen returns to Vietnam “In a very kind of subconscious way, I wanted to return to Vietnam to liberate myself from this idea of home that I could never grasp while I was growing up in the US. Now, I think there is no home.” Tuan Andrew Nguyen (@tuan.andrew.nguyen) moves between locales, histories, and cultures, using the power of storytelling to exorcize the ghosts that linger across generations. “I don't think that being in between worlds is something that limits us. That liminali
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Premieres Wed→ Tuan Andrew Nguyen in “Between Worlds"
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Explore the exhibition "Past-Forward," and you'll come across "Rays from a Sinking Sun" by Tuan Andrew Nguyen. The artist—recognized last year as a 2025 MacArthur Fellow—was born in Vietnam and grew up in the United States after he and his family emigrated as refugees in 1979. Tyler Cann, senior curator of modern and contemporary art, gives insight into the work that was once a former weapon. 📍 "Past-Forward: Modern and Contemporary Art from HoMA's Collection" is on view in Gallery 27. | Honolu
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Explore the exhibition "Past-Forward," and you'll come across "Rays from a Sinking Sun" by Tuan Andrew Nguyen. The artist—recognized last year as a 2025 MacArthur Fellow—was born in Vietnam and grew up in the United States after he and his family emigrated as refugees in 1979. Tyler Cann, senior curator of modern and contemporary art, gives insight into the work that was once a former weapon. 📍 "Past-Forward: Modern and Contemporary Art from HoMA's Collection" is on view in Gallery 27. | Honolu
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Now on view at DAAD Galerie Berlin through July 2025, 'Swirl' by Vietnamese-American artist Tuan Andrew Nguyen forms and unforms the face of a man using bamboo, steel, and motorized movement. Part of the group show 'For Real, For Real', this kinetic sculpture explores memory, identity, and erasure. Known for his poetic lens on war, exile, and counter-memory, Nguyen has exhibited internationally, including at the La Biennale di Venezia and Sharjah Biennial. A must-see in Berlin’s summer art seaso
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Now on view at DAAD Galerie Berlin through July 2025, 'Swirl' by Vietnamese-American artist Tuan Andrew Nguyen forms and unforms the face of a man using bamboo, steel, and motorized movement. Part of the group show 'For Real, For Real', this kinetic sculpture explores memory, identity, and erasure. Known for his poetic lens on war, exile, and counter-memory, Nguyen has exhibited internationally, including at the La Biennale di Venezia and Sharjah Biennial. A must-see in Berlin’s summer art seaso
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National Gallery Singapore on Instagram: "Out of the ruins of war, something new is taking form 👀 We’re getting ready for the opening of artist Tuan Andrew Nguyen’s “Temple”, which transforms remnants of war from Quảng Trị, Vietnam, into a meditative space at the Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden. Using alloys of defused unexploded ordnance to create discs, chimes, and bells tuned to soothing frequencies, his work explores reincarnation as a path towards restoration and peace 🌿✨ As part o
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Tuan Andrew Nguyen transforms 57mm shells Watch the full episode free on art21.org/tuanandrewnguyen #Art21Season12 | Art21
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The Buddha Sculpture by Tuan Andrew Nguyen for the High Line’s Annual Plinth Program #newyork
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Tuan Andrew Nguyen directs a young actor. “Those are birds. We only have one take. Once you get there, all the birds will start flying. It'll be the most beautiful thing in the world.” Weaving together fact, fiction, archive, and anecdote, Tuan Andrew Nguyen’s films (@tuan.andrew.nguyen) envision different ways that the wounds of the past can be healed and even become something beautiful. Watch the artist in Art21's Season 12 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" episode, "Between Worlds" on PBS and
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