Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn

Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn (born 1976, Saigon [Ho Chi Minh City], Vietnam; active Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) is an artist with a capacious practice that conjures the unique and individual stories haunting the larger legacies of dispossession, war, ecological fragility, and displacement. Tuấn works across media to imagine moments of resistance, empathy, healing, and wit in all its forms. He was born and currently works in Vietnam, and he was raised and educated in the United States. He received a BFA from the University of California, Irvine, and an MFA from The California Institute of the Arts in San Francisco. After completing his degree, Tuấn cofounded Propeller Group, an art collective that collaborates on large-scale projects focused on mass communication and the physical form of language, including its power and limitations.

Tuấn has received numerous awards and accolades for his work, including the prestigious MacArthur Foundation Grant in 2025. His work has been featured in international exhibitions including the Whitney, Sharjah, and Berlin Biennials, and Prospect 6 in New Orleans. Tuấn’s solo exhibitions include installations at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (2024–25), the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa ((2024–25), and the exhibition, Tuan Andrew Nguyen: Radiant Remembrance (2023), at the New Museum in New York City, among others. Tuấn’s work is also represented in collections around the world; the Princeton University Art Museum’s collections hold his film The Unburied Sounds of a Troubled Horizon (2022) and his large-scale sculptural mobile Naga (2024).