RESUME

Born in 1982, Nam Nguyen is a Vietnamese-Canadian artist based in Berlin. Upon graduating with his MFA in 2008 from Nscad University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, he received the Joseph Plaskett Foundation award to study and work in Europe for a one year period, after which he relocated permanently to Berlin. Working in the medium of oil painting, he explores abstraction as a vehicle for perceptual investigation. With the support of multiple grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, he has undertaken extensive research into the practice of making his own oil paint and gesso from pure pigments. By doing so, he has staked an uncompromising position in abstraction, that aims to alter the viewers perception through vivid effects of spatial depth and radiant color.

Curriculum Vitae

Nam Duc Nguyen

Born 1982 in Canada

Based in Berlin, Germany

Contact T: +49 (0) 1577 336 8056

Email: namso21@gmail.com

www.nampainting.com

Instagram>  @namnguyenpainting

Education

2006-2008 NSCAD University, Halifax, Master of Fine Arts

2003-2005 Emily Carr Institute, Vancouver, Batchelor of Fine Arts

2001-2003 MacEwan University, Edmonton, Diploma Fine Arts

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2025 Upcoming Duo Exhibiition,“A Second Horizon” with Lionel Allingham, Art Gallery of Grande Prairie, Grand Prarie,
Canada.

2019 “Out of the Cave and into the Garden (In honour of Robot the dog)”, La Datcha Projects, Berlin

2017 A Cadence for Unremembered Shades, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax

2015 What Billows on distant floors?, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax

2014 Black Market Para-sight/site, Lehrter Siebzehn Project Space, Berlin

Group Exhibitions

2023 Flickering Flames and the Radiant Sun, SAP space, Berlin

2023 A Ten Year Itch, Pictura Gallery, Drawing Society Pictura, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.

2022 The Alien Everyday, Spoilerzone Project Space, Berlin

2022 Zagreb Salon, Zagreb Biennale of Art, Zagreb, Croatia

2019 Schaustellung, Schau Fenster Project Space, Berlin

2018 Casting the Rain Shadow, Hilbertraum Project Space, Berlin

2017 Invisible Bright Touch, Cork Street Project Space, Halifax

2016 The End, let's start again, Donau 83 Project Space, Berlin

2014 Joseph Plaskett Foundation Award Tenth Aniversary Exhibition, Equinox East Gallery, Vancouver

2013 A Night at the Park, Moosdorf Project Space, Berlin

Anonyme Zeichen 2013, Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin

2012 Interior Two, 48 Neukolln culture festival, Berlin

2012 Murmurer, curated by Megan Hepburn, Studio-Baustelle, Berlin

2011 Nowheresville, curated by Matthew Carver, General Hardware Contemporary,Toronto

Artist in Residence

2019 La Datcha Artist in Residence, Berlin

2017 Bill and Isabel Pope Foundation Artist in Residence, Halifax

2015 Nscad Summer Artist in Residence Program, Halifax

Awards/Grants

2024 Concept to Realization Grant, Canada Council for the Arts

2022 Travel Grant, Canada Council for the Arts

2021 Canada Council for the Arts, Research and Creation Grant to Visual Artists, Canada

2020 BBK, Berufsverband Bildender Künstler*innen, Atelierförderung Programm. (Berlin Subsidized Studio Program)

2018 Canada Council for the Arts, Research and Creation Grant to Visual Artists, Canada

Canada Council for the Arts, Professional Development Grant, Canada

2016 Vietnamese-Canadian Creative Persons Grant, Hoang Tri and Vi Nguyen Foundation, Canada

2013 Canada Council for the Arts, Project Grant.

2011 Canada Council for the Arts, Research and Creation Grant, Canada

2008 Joseph Plaskett Foundation Award, Joseph Plaskett Foundation, Canada

2007 Royal Bank of Canada Painting Competition Finalist

2005 Harrison McCain Scholarship in Memory of Marion McCain, Nscad University