Nguyen is an artist, educator, and scholar born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. She received her Ph.D. in Performance
Studies from Northwestern University and has published work in Women Studies Quarterly, Harvard Kennedy School's Asian American Policy Review, Women and Performance, The Funambulist, and The Methuen Drama Anthology of Modern Asian. As a performance artist, Nguyen has exhibited and performed at the Nha San Collective in Vietnam, Mission Cultural Center in San Francisco, Jane Addams Hull House, Prague Quadrennial, Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Chile. She is also the co-founder and executive director of Axis Lab, a community arts organization based in Chicago. Currently, she is Director of Undergraduate Studies and Assistant Professor of Instruction in Asian American Studies at Northwestern University. Nguyen is also an award-winning memorial designer for the Chicago Torture Justice Memorial Project, the first monument in the United States to honor survivors of police violence.
Please RSVP for this workshop in La Estación Gallery by October 23, 2019 here: laestaciongallery123@gmail.com. Space is limited.
