Hương Ngô
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Biography
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Reap the Whirlwind, 2018
five volume artist book with thermochromic ink in clamshell case with blind embossed covers 8 1/2 x 9 x 1 1/2 in 21.6 x 22.9 x 3.8 cm edition of 8 |
Hương Ngô is an interdisciplinary artist and educator. She was born in Hong Kong and works between Santa Barbara, CA and Chicago, IL. Ngô’s work attends to refugee epistemologies, expanding concepts of time and knowledge to those that are generational, ecological, ruptured, and reconstructed. Often beginning with research in national and personal archives, she realizes her work through installation, works on paper and performance. Through her art practice, she gives form to individual and collective narratives that might otherwise be lost – inviting the past to haunt the present – sculpting a future within the ruination.
Ngô holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Art & Technology Studies (2004) and was a Whitney Independent Study Fellow (2011-2012). She was awarded the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Grant in Vietnam (2016) for work that has been described as "deftly and defiantly decolonial" by New City and "what intersectional feminist art looks like'' by the Chicago Tribune. Ngô's achievements also include being a CAC BOLT resident (2016), recipient of 3Arts and Next Level Awards (2018, 2020), Illinois Art Council Fellowship (2022), Camargo Core Fellowship (2018), Asian Cultural Council Fellowship (2024), and being featured in the Prague Biennial (2005) and Prospect.5 Triennial (2021). Ngô has exhibited her solo and collaborative work at numerous institutions including more recently: Fine Arts Center at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO (2024); MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (2023); Kemper Museum, Kansas City, MO (2022), CAC Cincinatti, OH (2021); Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL (2021); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (2020); The Factory Contemporary Art Centre, HCMC, VN (2020); Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL (2020); Phillips Collection, Washington DC (2019); MoMA, New York, NY (2018); Para Site, Hong Kong, SAR (2017); DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL (2017); Nhà Sàn Collective, Hanoi, VN (2016). Her collaboration with Hồng-Ân Trương is on long-term display at Chicago O'Hare's International Airport, and her work is part of the permanent collections of the MoMA, DePaul Art Museum, Smith College Museum of Art, and Walker Art Center, among others. |
