Visiting Artist Lecture: Diane Severin Nguyen

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This virtual lecture is presented as part of the spring 2022 Visiting Artist Lecture Series, free and open to all. Registration is required. Live captioning is available.

Diane Severin Nguyen (b. 1990, Carson, California) is an artist who works with photography, video, and installation. Nguyen earned an MFA from Bard College in 2020 and a BA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2013. Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include IF REVOLUTION IS A SICKNESS, Sculpture Center, New York; Between Two Solitudes, Stereo, Warsaw, 2021; Tyrant Star, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, 2020; Reoccurring Afterlife, Empty Gallery, Hong Kong, 2019; Minor twin worlds, with Brandon Ndife, Bureau, New York, 2019. Her 2019 video Tyrant Star has been screened at Yebisu Festival, Tokyo, 2020; IFFR Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2020; and the 57th New York Film Festival, New York, 2019. Recent select group exhibitions include Made in L.A. 2020: a version, Hammer Museum and The Huntington, Los Angeles, 2020-2021; Bodies of Water: 13th Shanghai Biennale, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China, 2021; and Metabolic Rift, Berlin Atonal, Berlin, Germany. Her work is currently included in Greater New York, MoMA PS1, New York, 2021. Forthcoming, IF REVOLUTION IS A SICKNESS will be screened at Berlinale Film Festival, 2022 and exhibited at the Renaissance Society, Chicago, in May 2022.