KENNY NGUYEN creates "deconstructed paintings." These large, colorful mixed media works are comprised of hundreds of silk strips, which Nguyen cuts, paints, and meticulously applies onto canvas. The pieces may be hung sculpturally on the wall with undulations or flat, stretched like a painting on bars or behind glass. Nguyen's process mirrors the artists' own self, a hybrid of blended cultures and ideas, bringing to light the ways in which identity is constructed and in a constant state of change.
Kenny Nguyen graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art in Fashion Design from National University of Art and Architecture, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam in 2010 and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art in Painting from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 2015. Nguyen's works have been exhibited nationally and internationally and, in 2016, Nguyen received an Excellence Asia Contemporary Young Artist Award from Sejong Museum of Art. He has been awarded artist residency fellowships from the Ragdale Foundation, IL; The Hambidge Center, GA; Vermont Studio Center, VT; Gil Artist Residency, Akureyri, Iceland; Château d'Orquevaux, Orquevaux, France; and AIR Guidiguada Gran Canaria, Spain. Kenny Nguyen lives and works in Charlotte, North Carolina.