Tuan Andrew Nguyen

Tuan Andrew Nguyen (born 1976, Sài Gòn, Vietnam) is a Vietnamese-American artist known for moving-image works, sculptures and installations. His work taps into counter-memory, testimony and dialogue as forms of political resistance and empowerment, highlighting unofficial and underrepresented histories involving the fragmented consciousness of colonial inheritance and the cultural estrangement of expatriation and repatriation. He interweaves factual and speculative elements—archival resources, fiction, explorations of material memory embedded in objects (animism), and supernatural realms—in order to rework dominant narratives into poetic vignettes that imagine alternate forms of healing, survival and political potentiality. In 2023, New York Times critic Roberta Smith wrote, "Nguyen is a documentarian and an assembler of broken things with a preference for collaboration. His work aims to heal the fragmented lives and retrieve the suppressed memories of the marginalized people most affected by colonization, war and displacement, especially in Vietnam."

Nguyen's work belongs to the public art collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Singapore Art Museum and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), among others. In 2023, he received the Joan Miró Prize. He has exhibited at international exhibitions and film festivals including the Whitney Biennial, Sharjah Biennial, Berlin Biennale and Manifesta, and a solo show at the New Museum. He is a cofounding member of the artist collective The Propeller Group and is based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.