Phượng-Duyên Hải Nguyễn

2019

Mar 15

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.

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