Trong Gia Nguyen
Trong Gia Nguyen examines different power structures. Sometimes in a humorous way and sometimes more soberly, the artist questions our spaces of trust, whether domestic, cultural, political or economic.
He works exclusively with an iPhone, with which he creates installations, films, paintings, sculptures, performances and Internet interventions.
Between 2005 and 2007, he founded and directed the New General Catalog gallery in Brooklyn - a representing emerging and disadvantaged artists with an experimental artistic identity.
Trong Gia Nguyen has participated in more than 25 exhibitions as a curator. Trong Gia Nguyen regularly participates in solo and collaborative exhibitions. He exhibited at the Freies Museum in Berlin, Germany in 2010; Housatonic Museum of Art in Connecticut in the United States in 2013; Piazzale Valdo Fusi in Turin, Italy in 2015; Vincom Center for Contemporary Art in Hanoi, Vietnam in 2017. In 2018, at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum in Florida, USA. In the same Orange County Museum of Art in California, USA.