Phuong Nguyen Canadian

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Phuong Nguyen, Fleurs Et Feuilles, Rameaux Et Fruits, Oil on panel, canvas stretcher, handcarved wood, viscose twine, and metal hardware, 2026.
Phuong Nguyen, Fleurs Et Feuilles, Rameaux Et Fruits, Oil on panel, canvas stretcher, handcarved wood, viscose twine, and metal hardware, 2026.

"Easy to miss, women are constructing the scene; Nguyen gives the objects back to the hands of the imagined creators."
- Maisie Molot, The Brooklyn Rail

Born and raised in Tkaronto (Toronto), Phuong Nguyen is a Tkaronto-based visual artist working in representational oil painting and experimental weaving. Nguyen uses these mediums to explore themes of Ornamentalism and the relationship between exoticism and violence by referencing the aesthetics and the history of Chinoiserie and South East Asian/Vietnamese femininity. Nguyen holds a BFA from OCAD University (2014).

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Phuong Nguyen

Across oil paintings, hand-carved wood frames, and suspended mixed-media assemblages, Nguyen brings together aesthetic fragments—plastic twine, porcelain vessels, lotus candles, dragonfruit, brocade—into densely symbolic compositions that consider how beauty and violence often occupy the same form. Referencing Edward Said and Anne Anlin Cheng, Nguyen’s work contends with the “peri-human”: figures and objects that are at once animated and emptied, adorned and dismembered, ghostly but never fully gone.

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