About

Chi Nguyễn is an interdisciplinary artist who uses textiles and community-engaged practices to examine the intersection of identities in the U.S., explore the concept of belonging, and reflect on her recent transition to motherhood.

Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Vogue, Washington Post, Salon, Ms. Magazine, Huffington Post, BusinessWeek, Vice, and Bustle, among others.

She is based in The Bronx, New York where she lives with her husband, daughter, and their dog, Uni.

 
A photo of me weaving on my favorite floor loom in my studio. In the background are yarn, canvases, an easel, a fashion form, drafting table, and shelving for my supplies.

Exhibitions

2019
WERQ
We’ve Been Doing This Our Whole Lives
Group show
Cluster Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
June 8 - 30

TAC's 10 Year Reunion Exhibition:
A Celebration of Textiles and Community
Group show
Textile Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY
May 20 - June 3

2018
Resilience: Womankind Art Exhibit
Group show
One Art Space, New York, NY

ZERO
Costume design for Jonathan Gonzalez's dance performance as part of the Dancing Platform Praying Grounds: Blackness, Churches, and Downtown Dance.
Danspace, New York, NY

2017
What's a Body? 
Costume design for Jonathan Gonzalez's dance performance
Theater at Kickstarter, Greenpoint, Brooklyn

2016    
Home
Interdisciplinary performance directed by Theresa Elwell as part of the Make Room Residency
Nolan Park on Governors Island, NY

Backstage: Studies of Solitude
Group show curated by Sophia Ma with sales going to the New York Asian Women’s Center
Rockwall Studios, Ridgewood, Queens

2015    
I hope to find you at the end of this, Second Iteration
Solo performance
October 10 from 2PM – 8PM
Presented by Theater Lab, New York, NY

2014    
AIR 5 Show
Group show as part of the culmination of the Textile Arts Center residency
November 6 – 13
Showroom Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY

Of Ties
Dance performance with Jonathan Gonzalez as part of a group show
November 13
Make the Road, Brooklyn, NY

I hope to find you at the end of this, First Iteration
October 10 from 5PM – 12:15PM
Presented by Textile Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY

Education & Residencies

2018
Sign Language Center
American Sign Language (ASL), New York

School of Poetic Computation
Machine Learning Literacy, New York  

Bard Graduate Center Gallery x TAC Maker Space
New York, NY

2016-Present
Reproductive Justice Leadership Institute Fellow
National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum

2016
Make Room Residency
Barton Booth on Governors Island, New York 

Poco a Poco Residency
Oaxaca, Mexico 

2013 - 2014
Artist-in-Residence
The Textile Arts Center Brooklyn, New York

Macaulay Honors College at CUNY Baccalaureate
BA magna cum laude
Visual Arts and Political Science

L' Istituto Lorenzo del Medici
Florence, Italy, Study Abroad