Her practice spans painting and drawing, sculpture, and installation of found objects, and 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, and incarceration, through objects which range from explicitly to ambiguously culturally coded. In her work, reflective surfaces, material with shifting opacities, and image manipulation and abstraction reveal the pivoting functions of objects which simultaneously obscure and uncover illegible histories. 

She holds a BFA in New Media at Toronto Metropolitan University, and an MFA in Fine Art from Parsons School of Design at The New School.