Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen

Some of the themes that surface in Nguyen's work include resistance, power, and feminism.{{Cite web |last=Naveed |first=Feliza |date=January 17, 2014 |title=Societal dialogue: Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen is this semester's Koerner Artist in Residence |url=http://www.queensjournal.ca/story/2014-01-17/arts/societal-dialogue/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231019035816/https://www.queensjournal.ca/societal-dialogue/ |archive-date=October 19, 2023 |access-date=March 8, 2016 |website=The Queen's Journal}} Many of her projects look at how histories are recorded within archival records and reclaim narratives of activism and citizen-led solidarity networks.{{Cite book |last=Hamilton |first=Sylvia D. |title=Other Places: Reflections on Media Arts in Canada |publisher=Media Arts Network of Ontario |year=2019 |isbn=9781999274801 |editor-last=Bowen |editor-first=Deanna |location=Toronto, Ontario |pages=361 |language=en |chapter=Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn Artist Portfolio - Visualizing History and Memory in the African Nova Scotian Community |oclc=1154682741}} As such, her work often creates new archives or explores existing archives, including Making of an Archive which explores the everyday of immigrants to Canada and looking at the work of Olive Morris, as a member of the Remembering Olive Collective (ROC).{{Cite news |last=Ruiz |first=Sheila |date=October 16, 2009 |title=Do you remember Olive Morris? |newspaper=BBC |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/london/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8310000/8310579.stm |url-status=live |access-date=March 8, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230423092344/http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/london/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8310000/8310579.stm |archive-date=April 23, 2023}}

In her 25-channel sound installation For An Epidemic Resistance (2009),{{Cite magazine |date= |title=Laughter |url=http://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/art/laughter |url-status=live |magazine=The New Yorker |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170316025405/https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/art/laughter |archive-date=March 16, 2017 |access-date=March 8, 2016}} Nguyen explores a laughing epidemic which took place in 1962 in Tanganyika. In an article which appeared in Fuse Magazine in 2013, Amber Berson wrote that "the outbreak of laughter [...] lasted for six months and first occurred at a mission-run boarding school for [...] we can choose to read the girls' laughter as a form of resistance against their patriarchal society and the colonizers at their mission-run institution [...] Yet the girls' weapon – laughter – eventually shut down the school (and other institutions), proving it an effective means of resistance, which Nguyen celebrates in her piece."{{Cite web |last=Berson |first=Amber |date=November 1, 2013 |title=On Resisting |url=http://fusemagazine.org/2013/11/36-4_berson |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140309092958/http://fusemagazine.org/2013/11/36-4_berson |archive-date=March 9, 2014 |access-date=March 5, 2016 |website=FUSE Magazine}}

Another work, Space Fiction & the Archives (2012),{{Cite journal |last= |first= |date=November–December 2013 |title=Excavated Gestures |journal=ArtAsiaPacific |issue=86 |pages=45–46 |issn=1039-3625}} deals with the Canadian centennial celebrations of 1967 and the incident of a Martian landing pad created to welcome UFOs to St. Paul, Alberta. Nguyen "posits a relationship between science fiction and multiculturalism."{{Cite web |last=Johnstone |first=Lesley |date=2014 |title=Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen – Space Fiction & the Archives, 2012 |url=http://bnlmtl2014.org/en/artists/jacqueline-hoang-nguyen/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170823024739/http://bnlmtl2014.org/en/artists/jacqueline-hoang-nguyen/ |archive-date=August 23, 2017 |access-date=March 5, 2016 |website=BNLMTL 2014 |language=en-US}}{{Cite journal |last=St-Jean Aubre |first=Anne-Marie |date=Winter 2013 |title=Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen, Space Fiction & the Archives, Vox Centre de l'image contemporaine, Montréal, du 2 novembre au 15 décembre 2012 |url=http://www.erudit.org/en/journals/esse045/2013-n77-esse0421/68375ac |url-status=live |journal=esse arts + opinions |language=fr |issue=77 |pages=74 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200813120921/https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/esse045/2013-n77-esse0421/68375ac/ |archive-date=August 13, 2020 |access-date=March 11, 2017}} Her work is highly researched, but also involves an element of storytelling.

Nguyễn's project, The Wages Dues Song (2016) takes up the work of The Wages Dues Collective,{{Cite book |last1=Edmond |first1=Wendy |url=https://archive.org/details/allworknopaywom00edmo |title=All Work and No Pay: Women, Housework and the Wages Due |last2=Fleming |first2=Suzie |publisher=Falling Wall Press Ltd |year=1975 |isbn=0950270229 |url-access=registration |via=Internet Archive}} a feminist collective formed in 1974 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, which was linked to the Wages for housework movement in the US.{{Cite web |last=Borgen |first=Maibritt |date=February 22, 2016 |title=On the Parent-Shaped Hole in the Art World – Canadian Art |url=https://canadianart.ca/reviews/on-the-parent-shaped-hole-in-the-artworld/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230608025855/https://canadianart.ca/reviews/on-the-parent-shaped-hole-in-the-artworld/ |archive-date=June 8, 2023 |access-date=March 6, 2016 |website=Canadian Art |language=en-US}} The work appeared as part of the recent exhibition The Let Down Reflex,{{Cite web |last=Sholette |first=Gregory |date=March 4, 2016 |title=The Politics of Being a Parent in the Art World |url=http://hyperallergic.com/280503/the-politics-of-being-a-parent-in-the-art-world/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230314081909/https://hyperallergic.com/280503/the-politics-of-being-a-parent-in-the-art-world/ |archive-date=March 14, 2023 |access-date=March 6, 2016 |website=Hyperallergic |language=en-US}} which ran from January 30 – March 12, 2016 at [http://www.projectspace-efanyc.org/ EFA Project Space] in New York.

Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn's work has been exhibited at The New Gallery, MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels), Momenta Art, Kunstverein Braunschweig, VOX: Centre de l’image contemporaine, the MTL BNL, A Space, Apexart, PAVED Arts, Or Gallery, and the Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art.

In addition to her work as an artist, Nguyen is also a curator, a writer, and an educator.{{Cite web |date=2015 |title=Challenge for Change / Société Nouvelle: Documents in Participatory Democracy - Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen - Challenge for Change / Société Nouvelle: Documents in Participatory Democracy |url=http://www.artslant.com/trn/events/show/376174-challenge-for-change-soci%25C3%25A9t%25C3%25A9-nouvelle-documents-in-participatory-democracy |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170319025755/http://www.artslant.com/trn/events/show/376174-challenge-for-change-société-nouvelle-documents-in-participatory-democracy |archive-date=March 19, 2017 |access-date=March 13, 2016 |website=ArtSlant}}{{Cite news |last=Nguyen |first=Jacqueline Hoang |date=Winter 2016 |title=Artefact: Explaining Man to Man |work=C Magazine |issue=128 |url=http://cmagazine.com/issues/128/artefact-explaining-man-to-man |url-status=dead |access-date=March 13, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308035011/http://cmagazine.com/issues/128/artefact-explaining-man-to-man |archive-date=March 8, 2021}}{{Cite web |date=2014 |title=Model Minority Publication |url=http://www.gendaigallery.org/programs/model-minority-publication |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170703121753/http://www.gendaigallery.org/programs/model-minority-publication |archive-date=July 3, 2017 |access-date=March 13, 2016 |website=Gendai Gallery}} Her work is included in several public and private collections in Canada, Sweden, and the United States, including the NARS Foundation (Brooklyn, US).{{Cite web |date=2012 |title=Jacqueline Nguyen |url=http://www.narsfoundation.org/jacquelinenguyen/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170318172752/https://www.narsfoundation.org/jacquelinenguyen/ |archive-date=March 18, 2017 |access-date=March 13, 2016 |website=NARS Foundation}}

Nguyễn's project The Making of an Archive was initiated in 2014 at Gendai Gallery, in Toronto, with curator Maiko Tanaka.{{Cite book |title=The Making of an Archive |publisher=grunt gallery |others=Curated by Vanessa Kwan, Dan Pon, and Maiko Tanaka |year=2018 |isbn=978-1-988708-05-8 |editor-last=Nguyen |editor-first=Jacqueline Hoang |location=Vancouver, British Columbia |pages=12–13 |oclc=1119116365}} The Making of an Archive is a grassroots archival project aimed at capturing images of everyday life of the immigrant experience in Canada. The project involved digitization workshops where the artist invited immigrants and their families, who identify as persons of colour, to scan their photographs and ephemera.{{Cite web |title=About the Making of an Archive |url=https://themakingofanarchive.com/about/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230520101014/https://themakingofanarchive.com/about/ |archive-date=May 20, 2023 |access-date=February 27, 2020 |website=The Making of an Archive |language=en-US}} The project continued in 2017 at grunt gallery in Vancouver. Although the project is described as ongoing, a publication dedicated to the project was published by grunt gallery in 2018.

• Production Programme, Sharjah Art Foundation, 2016{{Cite web |date=March 18, 2016 |title=News in Brief: Luminato's New Leader, imagineNATIVE Receives Largest Donation, Vancouver Launches Grants for Emerging Artists |url=http://canadianart.ca/news/news-in-brief-luminatos-new-artistic-director/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170318173754/http://canadianart.ca/news/news-in-brief-luminatos-new-artistic-director/ |archive-date=March 18, 2017 |access-date=March 11, 2017 |website=Canadian Art |language=en-US}}
• Sobey Art Award, Longlist, 2015{{Cite web |date=April 15, 2015 |title=Longlist Announced for the 2015 Sobey Art Award |url=https://sobeyartfoundation.com/en/news/longlist-announced-for-the-2015-sobey-art-award/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231019234329/https://sobeyartfoundation.com/en/news/longlist-announced-for-the-2015-sobey-art-award/ |archive-date=October 19, 2023 |access-date=October 19, 2023 |website=The Sobey Art Foundation |language=en-US}}
• The Swedish Arts Grants Committee International Program for Visual Arts, International Exhibition Grant, 2013

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• [http://www.jacquelinehoangnguyen.com/ Official site]
• [https://themakingofanarchive.com/about/ The Making of an Archive]

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