Trong Gia Nguyen

° 1971

Lives in New York City (United States).

Trong Gia Nguyen is a Brooklyn-based artist and curator who has exhibited internationally in numerous exhibitions including solo gallery shows in New York, Berlin, and Ho Chi Minh City.

Group shows include The Sixth Borough on Governors Island, Performa, Sequences Real Time Festival in Iceland, and the Havana Biennial. He has received grants from LegalArt Miami, Museum of Art and Design (New York), Artist in Residency in the Everglades, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Harvestworks Digital Media Center, Bronx Museum of the Arts, and Puffin Foundation. As a curator, Trong founded the experimental space New General Catalog (2005-07) and has organized over 25 exhibitions. He has written articles and contributed interviews to various publications including Art:21, New York Arts Magazine, and Flavorpill. Trong currently serves on the advisory boards of the Fashion in Film Festival, EFA Project Space, and Florence Artist in Residency (FAIR) Program.

He has also sat on various panels and guest-lectured at the Cue Foundation, Latvia Center for Contemporary Art, Location One, New York University, School of Visual Arts, Columbia University, Icelandic Art Academy, and Catalyst Foundation.

About M HKA / Mission Statement

The M HKA is a museum for contemporary art, film and visual culture in its widest sense. It is an open place of encounter for art, artists and the public. The M HKA aspires to play a leading role in Flanders and to extend its international profile by building upon Antwerp's avant-garde tradition. The M HKA bridges the relationship between artistic questions and wider societal issues, between the international and the regional, artists and public, tradition and innovation, reflection and presentation. Central here is the museum's collection with its ongoing acquisitions, as well as related areas of management and research.

About M HKA Ensembles

The M HKA Ensembles represent our first steps towards initiating the public to today's art-related digital landscape. With the help of these new media, our aim is to offer our artworks a better and fuller array of support for their presentation and public understanding.