Artist Talk: Maya Nguyen
@ Goethe-Institut Chicago
150 N Michigan Ave Suite 420 Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, July 16th, at 6PM
On view through Friday, July 31st
Join us for an artist talk by Maya Nguyen, whose exhibition LATERAL ENTRANT is currently on view at the Goethe-Institut Chicago. Drawing on a range of sources, references, and found images, Nguyen will address the challenges of making art that relates to identity without reinforcing stereotypes and ideas about cultural difference.
SCHEDULE
5:15pm: Doors Open
6:00pm: Artist Talk
7:00pm: Reception
The exhibition will be fully on view directly before and after the artist talk. Additional upcoming public viewing hours for LATERAL ENTRANT can be found here.
Please register in advance and bring a state- or federally-issued photo ID for check-in in the 150 N. Michigan building lobby.
About the artist
Maya Nguyen is an interdisciplinary artist with a focus on sound and diasporic making. Marked by migration from Hanoi, to Moscow, and now Chicago, her practice develops formal strategies to articulate experiences of lived ambiguity. Nguyen incorporates disparate (and often clashing) material sources into forms that remain conceptually indeterminate, such as performance-lectures, sound improvisation, and collaborative sculptures. Some favored materials include: speech fragments, mistranslations, body glitches, migratory routes, urban recordings, sounds imitating nature sounds, internet debris, baby babble, breast pump parts, and videos of daily life, among others. Her works are presented internationally, moving fluidly between galleries, sound venues, pop-up shows and universities, with recent shows at Watershed Art & Ecology (Chicago), Jack Straw New Media Gallery (Seattle), Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik (Berlin), Saari Residency (Mynämäki, FI), Manzi Art Space (Hanoi), and recognition as Arts Club of Chicago Fellow 2025-26 and Karl Sczuka Radio Art Research Prize 2024 (SWR/Goethe Institute). Nguyen holds a BA in Philosophy/Comparative Literature from The University of Chicago and MFA in Sound from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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