Artist Registry
The White Columns Curated Artist Registry is an online platform for emerging and under-recognized artists to share images and information about their respective practices. The Registry seeks to create a context for artists who have yet to benefit from wider critical, curatorial or commercial support. To be eligible, artists cannot be affiliated with a commercial gallery in New York City.
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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
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
Solo Exhibitions
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
2008 ImageObjectIdeaMaterial
Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax
Group Exhibitions
2019 Schaustellung, Schau Fenster Project Space, Berlin
First First Thursday, PremArts Project Space, Berlin
2018 Perennial Art 2018 Edition, curated by Witte Wartena,
O Tannenbaum Project Space, Berlin
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
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