Pipo Hieu Nguyen-duy (born 1962) is a fine art photographer, and a professor of Photography at

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Early life and education

Pipo was born in Hue, Vietnam in 1962. As a teenager, he competed on the Vietnamese national

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team. In 1975 at age 13, he left Vietnam for the United States as a boat person. Pipo graduated from

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in Northfield, Minnesota in 1983 with a BA in Economics after which he moved to New York City. He completed his

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in Photography from the

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, Albuquerque in 1992 and his

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in 1995.

Career

Pipo participated as an artist-in-residence at Monet's Garden through The Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Artists at Giverny Fellowship, at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California, in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program. He is represented by Sam Lee Gallery in Los Angeles, California. He is a Professor teaching photography at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio.

Publications

*''The inscrutable traveller: the photographs of Tseng Kwong Chi'', University of New Mexico, 1998 * ''A thousand deaths Pipo'', University of New Mexico, 1993

Awards

Pipo has received a National Endowment for the Arts, an En Foco Grant; a Professional Development Grant from the College Arts Association; an American Photography Institute's National Graduate Fellowship, NYC; a fellowship from the

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in Salem, Oregon; a B. Wade and Jane B. White Fellowship in the Humanities at Oberlin College; and two Individual Artists Fellowship from the Ohio Arts Council in Columbus, Ohio. In 2011, Pipo won a

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in the field of photography.

References

External links

*http://art.uga.edu/index.php?pt=4&id=111 *http://www2.kenyon.edu/artgallery/exhibitions/0405/n-duy/n-duy.htm {{DEFAULTSORT:Nguyen-Duy, Pipo Living people People from Huế Photographers from Oregon 1962 births People from Ashland, Oregon Oberlin College faculty Carleton College alumni University of New Mexico alumni Vietnamese emigrants to the United States Artists of Vietnamese descent Academics of Vietnamese descent American fine art photographers