ARIZONA ARTIST NOMINEE
Anh-thuy Nguyen
Anh-Thuy Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American female artist. Nguyen’s primary artistic source material for the last decade has been an exploration into her history and experiences as an immigrant. Through her artmaking, Nguyen investigates her cultural and personal identity as well as her migration story through photography, video, installation and performance art. The conversations that stem from Nguyen's work, and by extension personal experiences, engage with shared anxieties and stressors that burden her community and family: the balance of cultural difference, trauma surrounding immigration, language accessibility and mastery, and the stereotype of the model minority.
Nguyen's works are in the permanent collections of Amarillo Museum of Art, Tucson Museum of Art, Center for Photography at Woodstock among others. She currently lives and works in Tucson, Arizona.
Boat Journey series: in transition, Honolulu | 2017
BoatJourney_intransition_Montone | 2017
Boat Journey series: in transition, Da Lat | 2017
Boat Journey series: in transition, Verona | 2017
Boat Journey series: in transition, Nha Trang | 2017