Hương Ngô

Hương Ngô

b. 1979, Hong Kong
lives in Chicago

Hương Ngô’s history growing up as a refugee in the American South informs her lines of inquiry on colonialism and migration in her interdisciplinary, conceptual practice. Through multivalent interrogations of language, she mobilizes personal and collective histories to make visible larger structures of power and subjectivities of often marginalized populations, such as early twentieth-century Vietnamese revolutionary women. Ngô searches archives for the artifacts and texts that inform her work, translating these items from historical objects into art. Ngô received a grant from the Fulbright Scholar Program in Vietnam in 2016. Among other galleries and institutions, her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; and the New Museum, New York. She earned a BFA from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (2001), an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2004), and was a studio fellow at the Independent Study Program of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, in 2012. She is currently Assistant Professor in Contemporary Practices at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Hương Ngô, We are here because you were there. Chúng tôi ở đây vì quí vị đã ở đó. Nous sommes ici parce que vous étiez là-bas., 2016. Hectograph prints and hand-cut paper with custom typeface and theater lights, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist