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| EN FOCO | Photographers | |
 Lazy Boy, 2003 East of Eden series color print, 20x24”  Pipo Nguyen-duy The Martyrdom of St. Mishima |
Pipo Nguyen-duy Born: 1962, Hue, Vietnam Resides: Ohio, USA Heritage: Vietnamese Selected Exhibitions: Sam Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2007 Museum of Contemporary Photography, San Diego, CA 2007 Foto Arte, Brasilia, Brazil 2007 Light Work, Syracuse, NY 2007 FotoFest, Houston, Texas 2006 The Allen Art Museum, Oberlin, OH 2005 Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR, 2002, 2000, 1998 Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, OH, 2001 Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, OR, 1999 En Foco at El Taller Borícua Gallery, New York, NY, 1998 CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 1997 Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1997 ARC Gallery, Albuquerque, NM, 1995 Education: MFA, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM MA, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM BA, Carleton College, Northfield, MN Awards: Ohio Art Council Grant, 2005 H.H Powers Travel Grant, 2005 Headlands Center for the Arts, 2000 Ohio Arts Council Grant, Oregon Arts Commission Fellowship, 1997 En Foco's New Works Photography Award, 1997 Residencies: Light Work Residency Publications: Nueva Luz, Volume 6 #1 Camera Work, Volume 28 #1 Growing up within thirty kilometers of the Demilitarized Zone of the 18th Parallel, he describes hearing gunfire every day of his life. At the age of 13, he immigrated to the United States as a political refugee. Nguyen-duy's photography stems from the traditional style of landscape painting. His photographs hold references to mythology and history, and capture a thought-provoking vision of the American landscape and people. His recent work and style has been greatly influenced by the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 - and the series East of Eden, deals with humanity in the context of the post-apocalyptic landscape. |
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