Felisa Nguyen (b. 2001) is a Canadian artist of Vietnamese descent, living and working in New York City. Her practice is rooted in lived experience as a dispossessed body in the imperial core.

Nguyen’s work is concerned with the dark matter—the untranslatable, the ambiguous, the feelings of loss and absence—in between documented accounts of the past. She examines the malleability of collective and personal memory surrounding orientalism, colonialism, the family, ands incarceration, through objects which range from explicitly to ambiguously culturally coded.

In her work, quiet gestures reveal the pivoting functions of objects which simultaneously obscure and uncover illegible histories.
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Felisa Nguyen.
felisanguyn@gmail.com


Education

2025 | MFA Fine Art. Parsons School of Design at The New School, New York, New York, USA.

2023 | BFA New Media. RTA School of Media at Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.


Selected Exhibitions

2025 | Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, California, USA. (Upcoming).

2025 | Open Kitchen 002: Fusion, theBlanc and Li Tang Gallery, New York, New York, USA. 

2025 | Re: Turning, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery, New York, New York, USA.

2023 | Odyssey, Northern Contemporary Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.


Press

2025 | Nina Chkareuli-Mdivani, Conversation between New York-based curator and writer Phil Zheng Cai and emerging artists Anh Nguyen, Felisa Nguyen, and Huyen Tran, Hot Coffee Conversations

2025 | Daniel Larkin, Parsons Fine Arts MFA Students Help Us Navigate 2025, Hyperallergic


Awards & Grants

2023 | TD FCCP Education Foundation New Horizon Scholarship, Toronto, ON, Canada.

2023 | Design + Technology Lab and Design Fabrication Zone Grant, Toronto, ON, Canada.