Maya Nguyen


Master of Fine Arts in Studio, Sound

Maya Nguyen is a Vietnamese-Russian interdisciplinary artist working at the junction of sound, image, text, and body. Her work excavates the power relations inherent in human interaction and the environments that facilitate these interactions, focusing on the domestic sphere, colonial subjects, migratory routes, and the relating between the human and the natural world.

Nguyen holds a BA in Philosophy and Comparative Literature from the University of Chicago, and is the assistant poetry editor of Asymptote Journal. Her work has been shown at Vincom Center for Contemporary Art, UCLA New Wight Gallery, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Gene Siskel Film Center, Internationales Digitalkunst Festival 2022, Terrain Biennial 2021, Elastic Arts, Indiana University, Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, and elsewhere.