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. In her work, quiet gestures reveal the pivoting functions of objects which simultaneously obscure and uncover illegible histories.
She examines the malleability of collective and personal memory surrounding orientalism, colonialism, the family, and incarceration, through objects which range from explicitly to ambiguously culturally coded.
Curriculum Vitae
Felisa Nguyen
felisanguyenwork@gmail.com www.felisa.ca @palettknife
Education
Parsons School of Design at The New School, New York, NY, USA.
Bachelor of Fine Arts, New Media.
RTA School of Media at Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Selected Exhibitions
2025
2023
Feria Material, Ciudad de México, CDMX, Mexico.
Even the wind is cautious, Climate Control, San Francisco, CA, USA.
On Refuge: 50 Years of Recomposition, Orange County Center For Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA, USA.
Warehouse Market, SHISANWU, Queens, NY, USA.
Feels Like an Idiom, ModA, New York, NY, USA.
Open Kitchen 002: Fusion, The BLANC x Li Tang Gallery, New York, NY, USA.
Re: Turning, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery, New York, NY, USA.
Drawers, 25 East Gallery, New York, NY, USA.
Odyssey, Northern Contemporary Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Awards & Grants
2023
Research & Travel Grant, Parsons School of Design at The New School, New York, NY, USA.
TD Bank FCCP Education Foundation New Horizon Scholarship, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Design + Technology Lab and Design Fabrication Zone Grant, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Karen Miller-Tait Memorial Award, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Artist Talks
Panelist, Memory by Hand, Parsons School of Design at The New School, New York, NY, USA.
Press
2023
www.luclikes.com/fall-season/felisa-nguyen-ching-wei-wang
Vinh Pham, “002 Fusion: A Jest in Three Acts,” Impulse Magazine.
impulsemagazine.com/symposium/002-fusion-a-jest-in-three-acts
Phil Zheng Cai, “Conversation Between New York-based Curator and Writer and Emerging Artists,” Hot Coffee.
www.hot-coffee-conversations.com/episodes/interview-phil-zheng-cai
“Modern Anthropology’s Meaning of Love in NYC,” Paper Magazine.
www.papermag.com/modern-anthropology
Daniel Larkin, “Parsons Fine Arts MFA Students Help Us Navigate 2025,” Hyperallergic.
www.hyperallergic.com/1003071/parsons-fine-arts-mfa-students-help-us-navigate-2025/
“New Scholarship Funds Students on the Cutting Edge, Where Art Meets Technology,” Toronto Met University.
www.torontomu.ca/alumni/news-and-stories/2023/11/new-scholarship-funds-students-on-the-cutting-edge