Chau Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American conceptual artist and critic based in Philadelphia and New York. She navigates the intersection of art, technology, memory, trauma, and Vietnamese histories in her creation of transnational art objects. She is the Founder and Executive Director of Nguyen Arts Fund.
Nguyen received her BA in Fine Arts and History of Art from Bryn Mawr College and her MFA in Painting from Tyler School of Art and Architecture. Her work has been in group and solo exhibitions at the National Liberty Museum, Delaware Contemporary, Woodmere Art Museum, Pentimenti Gallery, Temple Contemporary, Automat Collective, Studio Montclair, Vincom Center for Contemporary Art (Vietnam), Gallery Steinsland Berliner (Sweden), and others. She has been awarded residencies including Ragdale Foundation (Lake Forest, IL), Millay Arts (Austerlitz, NY), Wassaic Project (Wassaic, NY), Byrdcliffe Artist Residency (Woodstock, NY), and others.
She has received fellowships, grants, and awards from The Loretta C. Duckworth Scholars Studio at Temple University Libraries, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Woodmere Art Museum, Joseph Robert Foundation, Ragdale Foundation, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, and others. Her work has been featured on WHYY, FOX 29, Artforum, Artblog, and Hanoi TV. She has held teaching positions at Moore College of Art and Design, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, and Fleisher Art Memorial. She has worked on public programs with institutions and community organizations, including Bryn Mawr College, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Fleisher Art Memorial, NKCDC, VietLead, the William Way LGBT Center, Abington Art Center, Textile Arts Center, among others. Nguyen served as a Board member at the Philadelphia Cultural Fund and the Curatorial Council at Ragdale Foundation.
Alongside this work, she continues to pursue research and public dialogue on the history of Vietnam and its complex relationship to the contemporary art market, exploring how cultural memory, migration, and artistic innovation intersect within global contexts.
Founder and Executive Director
Chau Nguyen
Advisors
Paul Carrion is a Pennsylvania Attorney who specializes his practice in employment law. He has advised school districts and small businesses on compliance with various employment law statutes, including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, Pennsylvania Human Relations Act, Philadelphia Fair Practices Ordinance, and Pennsylvania Medical Marijuana Act. He has also represented individuals and companies alike in employment discrimination matters. Paul has been recognized as a Top Lawyer in the field of Employment Law by the Delaware County Daily Times’ Reader Choice Award.
Paul Carrion is a first-generation graduate of Drexel University with a B.A. in Philosophy and Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law. He is a leader in the Philadelphia Bar Association where he currently serves as Co-Chair of the Civil Rights Committee and Co-Chair of the Military Affairs Committee. He also co-authored Ethics Opinion 2025-1 “Invoking Immigration Status in Legal Proceedings” and co-authored numerous resolutions concerning issues impacting veterans and military servicemembers, the transgender community, marriage equality, and the immigrant community.
Prior to becoming an attorney, Paul was an All-Source Intelligence Analyst in the United States Army, where he served abroad in Korea, Germany, and Afghanistan.
When Paul is not vigorously representing his clients’ interests, you can find him in a museum, on a hiking trail, or at home with his beloved wife and cats.
Legal Advisor
Paul Carrion
Ryan Raymond is the founder of Raymond IP Firm LLC, where his solo practice focuses on copyright, trademark, and entertainment-related matters ranging from content creation, film, and music. In 2024, Ryan received the "Volunteer Lawyer of the Year" from the Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts for his dedication to providing pro bono legal services to the creative community.
Ryan is a first-generation Haitian American and a first-generation graduate of the University of Florida with a BA in Sports Management. Prior to attending Villanova Charles Widger School of Law, Ryan worked in the sports and coffee industry. Ryan also currently serves as the President of the Villanova Law Minority Alumni Society and Co-Chair of the Philadelphia Bar Association Intellectual Property Committee.
Legal Advisor
Ryan Raymond
Nora Annesley Taylor is the Alsdorf Professor of South and Southeast Asian Art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. A specialist in Modern and Contemporary Vietnamese Art, she is the author of Painters in Hanoi: An Ethnography of Vietnamese Art (university of Hawaii Press, 2004, and University of Singapore Press, 2009) co-editor of Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Art (Cornell SEAP Press, 2012) and co-editor of the forthcoming Signs and Signals from Vietnam: Essays on Contemporary Art (Nguyen Art Foundation and University of Singapore Press 2026) as well as numerous essays on Modern and Contemporary Vietnamese and Southeast Asian Art. She is also the curator of Changing Identity: Recent Work by Women Artists from Vietnam organized by International Arts and Artists that toured the United States from 2007-2009. In 2013, she was the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation award.
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Nora Taylor
