Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn (born 1979,

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) is a Canadian-born artist currently living in Stockholm, Sweden. Her art practice is primarily research-based and often takes the form of

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, photographs and

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. She received her BFA from

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(2003), her post-graduate diploma in Critical Studies from the

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(2005) and is a graduate of the Whitney Independent Study Program.

Themes

Some of the themes that surface in Nguyen's work include resistance, power, and feminism. Many of her projects look at how histories are recorded within archival records and reclaim narratives of activism and citizen-led solidarity networks. 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

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, as a member of the Remembering Olive Collective (ROC).

Works

In her 25-channel sound installation ''For An Epidemic Resistance'' (2009), Nguyen explores a laughing epidemic which took place in 1962 in

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. In an article which appeared in

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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." Another work, ''Space Fiction & the Archives'' (2012), deals with the Canadian centennial celebrations of 1967 and the incident of a Martian landing pad created to welcome

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s to

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. Nguyen "posits a relationship between science fiction and multiculturalism." Her work is highly researched, but also involves an element of storytelling. Nguyễn's project, T''he Wages Dues Song'' (2016) takes up the work of The Wages Dues Collective, a feminist collective formed in 1974 in

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, Ontario, Canada, which was linked to the

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movement in the US. The work appeared as part of the recent exhibition The Let Down Reflex, which ran from January 30 – March 12, 2016 a
EFA Project Space
in New York. Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn's work has been exhibited at

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, MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels),

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, Kunstverein Braunschweig, VOX: Centre de l’image contemporaine, the MTL BNL, A Space,

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, 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. Her work is included in several public and private collections in Canada, Sweden, and the United States, including the NARS Foundation (Brooklyn, US). Nguyễn's project The Making of an Archive was initiated in 2014 at Gendai Gallery, in Toronto, with curator Maiko Tanaka. The Making of an Archive is a grassroots archival project aimed at capturing images of everyday life of the immigrant experience in Canada. 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. The project continued in 2017 at

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in Vancouver. Although the project is described as ongoing, a publication dedicated to the project was published by grunt gallery in 2018.

Honours

* Production Programme, Sharjah Art Foundation, 2016 * Sobey Art Award, Longlist, 2015 * The Swedish Arts Grants Committee International Program for Visual Arts, International Exhibition Grant, 2013

References

External links

Official siteThe Making of an Archive
{{DEFAULTSORT:Nguyen, Jacqueline Hoang Living people Canadian installation artists Women installation artists Canadian conceptual artists Women conceptual artists 21st-century Canadian artists 21st-century Canadian women artists Concordia University alumni Lund University alumni Canadian expatriates in Sweden 1979 births