Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn (born 1979, Montreal, Quebec)[1] is a Canadian-born artist currently living in Stockholm, Sweden. Her art practice is primarily research-based and often takes the form of installation, video, photographs and audio. She received her BFA from Concordia University (2003), her post-graduate diploma in Critical Studies from the Malmö Art Academy (2005) and is a graduate of the Whitney Independent Study Program.
Themes
editSome of the themes that surface in Nguyen's work include resistance, power, and feminism.[2] Many of her projects look at how histories are recorded within archival records and reclaim narratives of activism and citizen-led solidarity networks.[3] As such, her work often creates new archives or explores existing archives, including Making of an Archive which explores the everyday of immigrants to Canada and looking at the work of Olive Morris, as a member of the Remembering Olive Collective (ROC).[4]
Works
editIn her 25-channel sound installation For An Epidemic Resistance (2009),[5] Nguyen explores a laughing epidemic which took place in 1962 in Tanganyika. In an article which appeared in Fuse Magazine in 2013, Amber Berson wrote that "the outbreak of laughter [...] lasted for six months and first occurred at a mission-run boarding school for [...] we can choose to read the girls' laughter as a form of resistance against their patriarchal society and the colonizers at their mission-run institution [...] Yet the girls' weapon – laughter – eventually shut down the school (and other institutions), proving it an effective means of resistance, which Nguyen celebrates in her piece."[6]
Another work, Space Fiction & the Archives (2012),[7] deals with the Canadian centennial celebrations of 1967 and the incident of a Martian landing pad created to welcome UFOs to St. Paul, Alberta. Nguyen "posits a relationship between science fiction and multiculturalism."[8][9] Her work is highly researched, but also involves an element of storytelling.[6]
Nguyễn's project, The Wages Dues Song (2016) takes up the work of The Wages Dues Collective,[10] a feminist collective formed in 1974 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, which was linked to the Wages for housework movement in the US.[11] The work appeared as part of the recent exhibition The Let Down Reflex,[12] which ran from January 30 – March 12, 2016 at EFA Project Space in New York.
Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn's work has been exhibited at The New Gallery, MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels), Momenta Art, Kunstverein Braunschweig, VOX: Centre de l’image contemporaine, the MTL BNL, A Space, Apexart, PAVED Arts, Or Gallery, and the Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art.
In addition to her work as an artist, Nguyen is also a curator, a writer, and an educator.[13][14][15] Her work is included in several public and private collections in Canada, Sweden, and the United States, including the NARS Foundation (Brooklyn, US).[16]
Nguyễn's project The Making of an Archive was initiated in 2014 at Gendai Gallery, in Toronto, with curator Maiko Tanaka.[17] The Making of an Archive is a grassroots archival project aimed at capturing images of everyday life of the immigrant experience in Canada.[17] The project involved digitization workshops where the artist invited immigrants and their families, who identify as persons of colour, to scan their photographs and ephemera.[18] The project continued in 2017 at grunt gallery in Vancouver. Although the project is described as ongoing, a publication dedicated to the project was published by grunt gallery in 2018.[17]
Honours
editReferences
edit- ^ "Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen: Space Fiction & the Archives". Kunstverein Braunschweig. 2013. Archived from the original on October 20, 2023. Retrieved October 19, 2023.
- ^ Naveed, Feliza (January 17, 2014). "Societal dialogue: Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen is this semester's Koerner Artist in Residence". The Queen's Journal. Archived from the original on October 19, 2023. Retrieved March 8, 2016.
- ^ Hamilton, Sylvia D. (2019). "Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn Artist Portfolio - Visualizing History and Memory in the African Nova Scotian Community". In Bowen, Deanna (ed.). Other Places: Reflections on Media Arts in Canada. Toronto, Ontario: Media Arts Network of Ontario. p. 361. ISBN 9781999274801. OCLC 1154682741.
- ^ Ruiz, Sheila (October 16, 2009). "Do you remember Olive Morris?". BBC. Archived from the original on April 23, 2023. Retrieved March 8, 2016.
- ^ "Laughter". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on March 16, 2017. Retrieved March 8, 2016.
- ^ a b Berson, Amber (November 1, 2013). "On Resisting". FUSE Magazine. Archived from the original on March 9, 2014. Retrieved March 5, 2016.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "Excavated Gestures". ArtAsiaPacific (86): 45–46. November–December 2013. ISSN 1039-3625.
- ^ Johnstone, Lesley (2014). "Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen – Space Fiction & the Archives, 2012". BNLMTL 2014. Archived from the original on August 23, 2017. Retrieved March 5, 2016.
- ^ St-Jean Aubre, Anne-Marie (Winter 2013). "Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen, Space Fiction & the Archives, Vox Centre de l'image contemporaine, Montréal, du 2 novembre au 15 décembre 2012". esse arts + opinions (in French) (77): 74. Archived from the original on August 13, 2020. Retrieved March 11, 2017.
- ^ Edmond, Wendy; Fleming, Suzie (1975). All Work and No Pay: Women, Housework and the Wages Due. Falling Wall Press Ltd. ISBN 0950270229 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ Borgen, Maibritt (February 22, 2016). "On the Parent-Shaped Hole in the Art World – Canadian Art". Canadian Art. Archived from the original on June 8, 2023. Retrieved March 6, 2016.
- ^ Sholette, Gregory (March 4, 2016). "The Politics of Being a Parent in the Art World". Hyperallergic. Archived from the original on March 14, 2023. Retrieved March 6, 2016.
- ^ "Challenge for Change / Société Nouvelle: Documents in Participatory Democracy - Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen - Challenge for Change / Société Nouvelle: Documents in Participatory Democracy". ArtSlant. 2015. Archived from the original on March 19, 2017. Retrieved March 13, 2016.
- ^ Nguyen, Jacqueline Hoang (Winter 2016). "Artefact: Explaining Man to Man". C Magazine. No. 128. Archived from the original on March 8, 2021. Retrieved March 13, 2016.
- ^ "Model Minority Publication". Gendai Gallery. 2014. Archived from the original on July 3, 2017. Retrieved March 13, 2016.
- ^ "Jacqueline Nguyen". NARS Foundation. 2012. Archived from the original on March 18, 2017. Retrieved March 13, 2016.
- ^ a b c Nguyen, Jacqueline Hoang, ed. (2018). The Making of an Archive. Curated by Vanessa Kwan, Dan Pon, and Maiko Tanaka. Vancouver, British Columbia: grunt gallery. pp. 12–13. ISBN 978-1-988708-05-8. OCLC 1119116365.
- ^ "About the Making of an Archive". The Making of an Archive. Archived from the original on May 20, 2023. Retrieved February 27, 2020.
- ^ "News in Brief: Luminato's New Leader, imagineNATIVE Receives Largest Donation, Vancouver Launches Grants for Emerging Artists". Canadian Art. March 18, 2016. Archived from the original on March 18, 2017. Retrieved March 11, 2017.
- ^ "Longlist Announced for the 2015 Sobey Art Award". The Sobey Art Foundation. April 15, 2015. Archived from the original on October 19, 2023. Retrieved October 19, 2023.