Photo credit: Sarah Cramer Shields
Artist-in-Residence, Artist Exchange, Exhibiting Artist
Phượng-Duyên Hải Nguyễn (they/she) is a Vietnamese-American visual artist working primarily with fibers in her adopted hometown of Charlottesville, Virginia. Born in Vietnam and moved to the US with her family as a teenager, Nguyễn’s experiences and perspective as an immigrant inform and enrich her work. She sews and embroiders threadbare, abstracted structures and forms. To Nguyễn, abstraction is a tool to process and articulate - a formal construct upon which she restructure their stories. It is an act of obscuring the painful details, distilling the most beautiful aspects, and transforming them into tangible objects.
Instagram: @phuongduyens
Bio courtesy of the artist.
Phượng-Duyên won the January 2024 Charlottesville SOUP grant to create a large-scale, immersive textile installation exploring the notions of home and sense of belonging.
Growing from Phuong’s recent work, Nowhere, this exhibition will feature an all-consuming, immersive installation made of sewed and embroidered structures that visitors can weave through and be embraced by.
New City Arts presents Constructions, an exhibition of sculpture and works on paper by Phuong Duyen Nguyen. Phuong is the current New City Artist-in-Residence.
From January 9 - 25, 2019, New City Arts presents the New City Artist Exchange at Welcome Gallery, featuring original works by Charlottesville artists Annie Temmink, Frank Walker, Golara Haghtalab, Grace Ho, Kaki Dimock, Karina A. Monroy, Matt Eich, Nick Watson, Phuong Duyen Nguyen, and Rayne MacPhee. All proceeds from the sales of the Exchange work will benefit Housing2Home.
You're invited New City Arts and Crafts on Friday, May 24 from 10:00-11:00AM. Together, we'll have snacks, Grit coffee, put on Tattly temporary tattoos (for adults and kids), and make a craft together.
Join us for the opening of Nhớ an installation by Phượng-Duyên Hải Nguyễn. This event is free and open to the public.
Join us for an exhibition opening on February 7, 2020, from 5:00-7:30PM for Constructions, an exhibition of sculpture and works on paper by Phuong Duyen Nguyen. Phuong is the current New City Artist-in-Residence.
You're invited to join us for a latch-hook workshop with Charlottesville artist Phuong Duyen Nguyen on Tuesday, April 16 from 6:30PM-8:30PM.
Join New City Arts for an exhibition opening on January 9, 2019, from 5:00-7:30PM for New City Artist Exchange at Welcome Gallery, featuring original works by Charlottesville artists Annie Temmink, Frank Walker, Golara Haghtalab, Grace Ho, Kaki Dimock, Karina A. Monroy, Matt Eich, Nick Watson, Phuong Duyen Nguyen, and Rayne MacPhee. All proceeds from the sales of the Exchange work will benefit Housing2Home.
The 7x7x7 Series asks 7 questions to 7 Charlottesville artists and is published once a week for 7 weeks. This interview features Phuong Duyen Nguyen.
