Nguyen
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.
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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.
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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.
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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