Maya Frodeman Gallery is pleased to present Mother | Land, a solo exhibtion with artist Kenny Nguyen, on view at the gallery's downtown location from December 20th, 2024 through February 9th, 2025. An artist reception will be held Friday, December 20th from 5 to 7pm. All are welcome to attend. Nguyen will be in attendance.
Kenny Nguyen was born in in Ben Tre Province of Vietnam in 1990. Nguyen graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art in Fashion Design from National University of Art and Architecture, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam in 2010. He later graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art in Painting from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, in Charlotte, NC, in 2015. Nguyen’s recent solo exhibitions include those at Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Singapore; Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina; Sugarlift Gallery. New York, New York; Sozo Gallery, Charlotte North Carolina; Deiglan Gilfelagio Gallery, Akureyri, Iceland; and M Gallery, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art Museum, South Korea. Nguyen has participated in group exhibitions across the globe, including at Sotheby’s, London, UK; Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA (forthcoming); the Sejong Museum of Art, Seoul; CICA Museum (Czong Institute for Contemporary Art), Gimpo, Gyeonggi Province, Korea; Kunstwerk Carlshütte, Büdelsdorf, Germany; LaGrange Art Museum, Georgia; Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, Florida; Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, California; and The Rayburn House Office Building, United States Capitol Complex, Washington, DC. In 2016, Nguyen received the Excellence Asia Contemporary Young Artist Award from Sejong Museum of Art and in 2023, he received a nomination for the Joan Mitchell Fellowship. In 2024, Nguyen also received the Asian Art in London’s Modern & Contemporary Asian Art Award, presented by Sotheby’s. He has been awarded numerous grants, fellowships, and residencies, including but not limited to the Artist Residency Fellowships from the Ragdale Foundation, Chicago, IL; The Hambidge Center, GA; Vermont Studio Center, VT; Gil Artist Residency, Akureyri, Iceland; Château d'Orquevaux, Orquevaux, France; and AIR Guidiguada Gran Canaria, Spain. Kenny Nguyen lives and works in Charlotte, North Carolina.
