CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION
2015 BFA in Painting, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC
2010 BFA in Fashion Design, National University of Art and Architecture Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam​​​
TALK AND LECTURE
2025 Artist Lecture, ‘Reweaving the Unseen, the Divine Eye and Diasporic Memory’ Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston, SC
Artist Talk, ‘Adaptations’ Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
2024 Artist Talk, Meet the Maker, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston, SC
2023 Artist Talk ‘Contemporary Cartographies’ Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, FL
2022 ‘Crossing Boundaries’ Lecture, Akureyri Museum of Art, Akureyri, Iceland
2021 Visiting Artist, Utah Valley University, Orem, UT
2020 Visiting Artist, Washington & Jefferson College, Washington, PA
Visiting Artist, Adams State University, Alamosa, CO
Artist Talk, POV Artist Program, Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest IL
Artist Lecture ‘Materials in Contemporary Art’, Akureyri Art Museum, Akureyri, Iceland
2019 Visiting Artist, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC
Artist Lecture ’Silk: A metaphor of Identity’, Elder Gallery for Contemporary Art, Charlotte NC
Artist’s talk ‘Stimulus: Creation in Threads’, McColl Center for Art and Innovation, Charlotte, NC
JUROR
2021-2024 Curatorial Board, Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest IL
2022 Juror, Ohio Art Council for Visual Artist Individual Excellence Award, OH
2019 Juror, Hambidge Center, Visual Artist Residency Application, Rabun Gap, GA
SELECTED AWARDS, GRANTS, & RESIDENCIES
2025 Distinguished Alumni Award, College of Arts + Architecture, UNC Charlotte, Charlotte, NC
2024 Asian Art in London’s Modern & Contemporary Asian Art Award, presented by Sotheby’s, London, UK
2023 Joan Mitchell Fellowship (Nominated)
2022 AIR Guiniguada, Gran Canaria Island, Spain
2020 Judy Sigunick Fellowship for Visual Artist in Residency, Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL
Gilfélag Artist Residency, Akureyri, Iceland
2019 The Denis Diderot [A-i-R] Grant, Château d’Orquevaux, Orquevaux, France
Regional Artist Project Grant, Charlotte Arts and Science Council, Charlotte, NC
Artist Residency Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2018 Visual Artist Residency Fellowship, Hambidge Center for Creative Art and Science, Rabun Gap, GA
Merit-based Artist Residency Fellowship and Work-exchange Award, VSC, Johnson, VT
2017 Charlotte Visual Artist Grant, HappeningsCLT, Charlotte, NC
Asia Contemporary Young Artist Excellence Award, Sejong Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Confluence, The Branch Museum of Design, Richmond, VA
The Divine Eye, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston, SC
Mother Tongue, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York, NY
2024 Mother / Land, Maya Frodeman Gallery, Jackson Hole, WY
Eruption, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Singapore
Adaptations, Mint Museum, Charlotte NC
Cham: Mapping Identity, Sugarlift Gallery. New York, NY
2023 Home/land, Sugarlift Gallery. New York, NY
2022 Intertwined, Susan O. Ahern Gallery, Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts, Fond du Lac, WI
2021 Mirrors and Veils, Fitton Center for Creative Arts, Hamilton OH
Kenny Nguyen: Identity, Sozo Gallery, Charlotte NC
2020 Infinite Threads, Olin Fine Art Gallery, Washington & Jefferson College, Washington, PA
Marks on the skin, Deiglan Gilfelagio Gallery, Akureyri, Iceland
Reconstruction, The Cloyde Snook Gallery, Adam State University, Alamosa, CO
2019 Interwoven, Sozo Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2018 Kenny Nguyen: The Indescribable Fears, M Gallery, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art Museum, South Korea
Interbeing, Sozo Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2016 Space of Otherness, Allenton Gallery, Durham Art Councils, Durham, NC
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Winter Group Show, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York, NY
Thread Count, The Hole, New York, NY
2025 Untitled Art, Special Project, Miami Beach, FL, December 3 - 7, 2025, Presented by Sundaram Tagore Gallery
Art Mumbai Art Fair, Mumbai, India, November 13 - 16, 2025, Presented by Sundaram Tagore Gallery
25th Anniversary Exhibition, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York, NY
Hamptons Fine Art Fair, Southampton, NY, Presented by Sundaram Tagore Gallery
Hoa Tay (Flower Hands), Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
Zona Maco, Mexico City, MX, February 5 - 9, 2025, Presented by Sundaram Tagore Gallery
Art Palm Beach, West Palm Beach, FL, January 22 - 26, 2025, Presented by Sundaram Tagore Gallery
Art SG, Singapore, January 16 - 19, 2025, Presented by Sundaram Tagore Gallery
2024 Art Miami, Miami, FL, Presented by Sundaram Tagore Gallery
Eastern Exposure: Meaning & Materiality in Contemporary Asian Art, presented by Sotheby’s, London, UK
Nordart, Kunstwerk Carlshütte, Büdelsdorf Germany
Kiaf SEOUL, Seoul, Korea, Presented by Sundaram Tagore Gallery
Seattle Art Fair, Seattle, WA, Presented by Sundaram Tagore Gallery
Tokyo Gendai, Tokyo, Japan, Presented by Sundaram Tagore Gallery
Expo Chicago, Chicago, IL, Presented by Sundaram Tagore Gallery
Dallas Art Fair, Dallas, TX, Presented by Sundaram Tagore Gallery
2023 Contemporary Cartographies, Museum of Contemporary Art in Jacksonville, FL
Nordart, Kunstwerk Carlshütte, Büdelsdorf Germany
Băng Qua Nước : Across Land, Across Water, CCACC Art Gallery, MD
2022 Infinite Thread, Sugarlift, NYC, NY
2021 Reconstructing Deconstruction, Brooklyn Collective Gallery, Charlotte NC
Material Hard and Soft, Greater Denton Arts Council, Denton TX
2019 Collective(in)action, Memorial Union Gallery, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND
Constant/Change: Statements from New Generation of North Carolina Artist, Greenhill Center for North Carolina Arts, Greensboro, NC
Strive: National exhibition highlighting American Immigration and the American Dream, D’Art Center, Norfolk, VA
Artfields, Southeast Artist Competition, Lake City, SC
North Carolina Artist Exhibition, Contemporary Art Museum Raleigh, Raleigh, NC
2018 Suspend, The Cloyde Snook Gallery, Adam State University, Alamosa, CO
Peace & Justice, DSU Center Gallery, Delaware State University, Dover, DE
Artfields, Jones-Carter Gallery, Lake City, SC
Roderick MacKillop Memorial Alumni Art Exhibition, Rowe Gallery, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, NC
2017 Vietnamerica, Art Exhibition, Documentary Film Screening and Panel Discussion at Capitol Hill,
Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, D.C.
‘What makes Life an Art’, Gwanghwamun International Art Festival, Sejong Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
45th International Art Exhibition, Brownsville Museum of Fine Art, Brownsville, TX
North Carolina Artist Exhibition, Betty McCain Gallery, Raleigh, NC. Juror: Michael Rooks
2016 CICA’2016 Artist and Location, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art Museum, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
Fearless, Old Court House Arts Center, Woodstock, IL
Tallahassee International Exhibition, Florida State University Museum of Fine Art, Tallahassee, FL
Asia Contemporary Young Artist Award Exhibition, Sejong Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
North Carolina Artist Exhibition, Betty McCain Gallery, Raleigh, NC, Juror: Bradley Sumrall
First LaGrange Southeast Regional Exhibition, LaGrange Art Museum, LaGrange, GA. Juror: Deanna Sirlin
2015 Generations: 40 Hues of Black and White, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
Curators: Dinh Q. Le, Stephen Anderson
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Branch Museum of Design, Richmond, VA
The University of Texas at Austin, McCombs School of Business
North Dakota Museum of Art
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHIES
2025 Lacombe, Gabriella. "A Mirror In-Between." Style Weekly, 07 Sept. 2025,
https://www.styleweekly.com/a-mirror-in-between/.
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Adams, Helen. "Textile Fine Art Conversations with Artists Creating by Hand." Laurence King, 2025.
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Eisenschink, Christoph. "Stop Over Charlotte: 'I Have Enough Space Here to Be Creative.'" Lufthansa, 29 Aug. 2025,
https://www.lufthansa.com/id/en/articles/explore-the-world/stop-over-charlotte.
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Brown, Virginia. "How a Charlotte fiber artist entwines his Vietnamese heritage with his artwork." The Charlotte
Observer Online, 24 Aug. 2025, https://www.charlotteobserver.com/charlottefive/c5-people/article311502180.html.
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The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art. "Kenny Nguyen: The Divine Eye." Hyperallergic, 22 Aug. 2025,
https://hyperallergic.com/1035821/kenny-nguyen-the-divine-eye/.
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Genis, Leia. "‘Hoa Tay (Flower Hands)’ Searches for Cultural Assimilation in New Orleans." Observer, 17
July. 2025, https://observer.com/2025/07/review-hoa-tay-flower-hands-at-the-ogden-museum-of-southern-art/.
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Ojha, Srishti. "In a New York solo, diaspora artist Kenny Nguyen makes colour his language." STIRworld, 29 May.
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Zhang, Lisa Yin. "Kenny Nguyen's Beautiful Refusal." Hyperallergic, 20 May. 2025,
https://hyperallergic.com/1014287/kenny-nguyen-mother-tongue-sundaram-tagore-allery/.
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Fiber Art Now. "Fiber Art Now – Winter 2025." Fiber Art Now, vol. 14, pp. 72-79.
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2024 Ho, Louis. "10 must-see exhibitions at Singapore Gallery Month 2024, according to an art curator." Tatler, 6 Sept.
2024, https://www.tatlerasia.com/lifestyle/arts/10-must-see-exhibitions-at-singapore-gallery-month-2024.
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Pingel, Maile. "Unfurling Charlotte Artist Kenny Nguyen’s Complex Silk Paintings." Luxe Interiors + Design, 4 Sept. 2024,
https://luxesource.com/article/artist-kenny-nguyen-charlotte.
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2022 Roberts, Liza, et al. “Kenny Nguyen.” Art of the State: Celebrating the Visual Art of North Carolina, The
University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC, 2022, pp. 88–89.
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2021 Logan, Liz. “The Silk Road - Kenny Nguyen’s art is an epic tale sculpted with silk”.
Queen City Nerve, 7 Sep. 2021, pp 8-9.
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2020 Truc, Doan. “Kenny Nguyen – Dreams of a butterfly.” Elle Decoration Vietnam, 16 May. 2020, pp. 24-27.
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2019 Pressler, Alyssa, and Daremen J. “Artist Kenny Nguyen and ‘a Beautiful Way to Communicate'.” The
Charlotte Observer Online, 23 Jan. https://www.charlotteobserver.com/latest-news/article224978845.html
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2018 Im, Seonyoung, and Seungsub Baik . “Kenny Nguyen, The Indescribable Fears.” CICA Art Now 2018,
edited by Hyunjin Bang, CICA Press, 2018, pp. 112–120.