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Education

Aug. 2022 - May. 2025   Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art, Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture

+ Design, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN

Aug. 2019 - May. 2021   Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art, Fulbright School of Art and Science

  Art History Minor, Fulbright School of Art and Science, University of Arkansas,

  Fayetteville, AR

Aug. 2017 - May. 2019   Associate of Applied Science in Graphic Design, 

  Northwest Arkansas Community College, Bentonville, AR

Professional Experience

Aug. 2025 - June. 2026 Fine Arts Instructor - Haas Hall Academy Bentonville, Bentonville, AR.

  • Sole Visual Arts Instructor for a College Preparatory School. College level curriculum design, instruction, and inventory for visual art courses: Drawing, Photography, Painting, Sculpture, Visual Art Foundations, AP Art History

Aug 2022 -  May. 2025 Associate Instructor - Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

  • Led undergraduate instruction in Color Theory, Photography I, and Fundamentals of Photography. Facilitated critiques, technical demonstrations, and project-based learning. Taught camera operation, lighting, image editing, and conceptual development

Studio Lab Monitor - Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

  • Led undergraduate instruction in beginning studio art and photography courses.Facilitated critiques, technical demonstrations, and project-based learning. Taught camera operation, lighting, image editing, and conceptual development

Solo Exhibitions

2025 “Lasting Memories”, Grunwald Gallery, Bloomington, IN.

2021 “Faith in Greed”, Fine Arts Gallery, Fayetteville AR.

Selected Group and Juried Exhibitions

 

2026

“Significant Colour”, PH21 Gallery Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain (Forthcoming)

“The natural and the artificial”, PH21 Gallery Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain 

 (Forthcoming)

“Infinite Weight/Present Histories”,  The Ingram Library Gallery, University of West 

 Georgia, Carrollton GA. Juried by Erin Dunn 

“F-Stop”, Midnight Gallery, Bentonville AR.

2025

“Silence”, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

“BBA Photography Prize Exhibition”, BBA Gallery, Berlin, Germany

“Fremkaldelser | Into the Light”, Copenhagen Photo Festival's Open

Exhibition 2025, Copenhagen, Denmark

“Emerge: Asian American Art in Focus”, Cook Center, Bloomington IN.

“11th International Call Exhibition”, Rhode Island Center for  Photographic 

 Arts,Providence, RI. Juried by Zora J. Murff and Rana Young

NJ Pinhole Club Exhibition”, Unique Photo, Philadelphia, PA.

“Better Together”, Tangent Gallery, Bloomington, IN.

 

2024

“2024 University of Mississippi Juried Student Exhibition”, Gallery 130, Oxford, MS.

Juried by Coulter Fussell

“Portrait: Self and Others”, Photoplace Gallery Middlebury, VT.

“Home”, Praxis Photo Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN.

“No Place Like Home”, John Waldron Arts Center, Bloomington, IN.

 

2023

“Stories Exhibition”, Decode Gallery, Tucson, AZ.

“Where it Started”, Tangent Gallery, Bloomington, IN.

“Hand Me Down”, Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA

 

2021

“Untitled Collection”, PH Gallery, Fayetteville, AR.

“Anxiety Collection”, PH Gallery, Fayetteville, AR.

 

2020

“SPE South Central Student Exhibition”, Clyde H. Wells Fine Art Center Gallery,

Stephenville, TX.

 

Publications

2025 Utopia on the Wabash | Visions of New Harmony, contributor 

2024 “Whispering Shadows”, Float Magazine, contributor

Scholarship and Awards

2025 BBA Photography Prize 2025 Long List; Top 50

LensCulture Editors Choice 

Indiana University Special Projects Grant

2024 Indiana University Grant-in-Aid 

John Beck Fellowship Award

Indiana University Travel Fund

2022 Alonzo and Mary Louise Brummett Scholarship in Fine Arts

2018-2021 Arkansas Academic Challenge Scholarship

2019-2021 University of Arkansas School of Fine Art Scholarship


 

Invited Artist Lecture and Workshops  

2026 Collage Demo and Artist Talk. Episcopal School of Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL

2025 DASS Transfer Demo and Artist Talk. Culver Academies. Culver, IN.

“Perception: Remnants of…” Panel Discussion and Artist Presentation. Indiana University

Bloomington, IN.

Thesis Talks. Fine Arts Auditorium. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

2024 Visiting Lecturer, Digital Manipulation Class, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

Lighting Studio, Transfer, and Alternative Process Workshop, Contemporary 

Photography Class, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

Lumen and Cyanotype Workshop, Wonderlab Museum of Science, Technology, & 

Medicine, Bloomington, IN

2023 Art Workshop - mini sculptures, printmaking, drawing, painting. Growing Hearts Daycare 

& Preschool. Bloomington, IN

2022 Printmaking Workshop, Scott’s Family Amazeum, Bentonville, AR.

Professional Affiliations

2022-2025 Society for Photographic Education Midwest Chapter | Member

2019-2021 Society for Photographic Education South Central Chapter | Member

Contact Me

@dustinnguyenart

479-381-3806

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