Thi My Lien Nguyen

Visual Artist
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  1. Three Grains of Rice and Some Gold
  2. Ở Thụy Sĩ
  3. No Explanation Needed
  4. Bellies To Fill
  5. Slices of Love
  6. Through My Matriarchs
  7. Hiếu thảo – With Love and Respect

Ephemeral / Food
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  1. True Connection Comes Through
  2. To Close With A Golden Key
  3. Gatherings
  4. Mời, mời
  5. Diasporic Food Experience
  6. MLS

Photographer and more
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  1. Portraits
  2. Stories
  3. and more


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Thi My Lien Nguyen

Artist and Photographer


Thi My Lien Nguyen (b. 1995) is a Swiss-Vietnamese photographer and artist based in Switzerland. She received her Bachelor's degree in Camera Arts from the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts in 2017.

In her artistic practice she deals with the feeling and understanding of belonging, participation and the sense of home, whereas she is strongly interested in diasporic and post-migrant realities and stories. Through participatory and inclusive methods, performative and culinary activations she seeks to establish more inclusive spaces to create more understanding and representations between communities. She works with traditions, rituals, folklore, photography and food. 

Her work has been exhibited in multiple exhibitions including the 22nd Biennial Sesc_Videobrasil in São Paulo (2023), Museum Haus Konstruktiv Zürich (2023), Plat(t)form, Fotomuseum Winterthur (2022), Photo Hanoi, Vincom Center for Contemporary Art (VCCA) (2021). Nguyen is part of the curatorial team at Les Complices*, a self-organised community-based off-space in Zurich, committed to support the ideas and works of queer, trans, inter, non-binary, women* and BIPoC.




Interests
contemporary photography
social engaged art
spaces
archives
practice of sharing
Vietnam and Switzerland
gatherings
zines working and thinking around food
diaspora
rituals
traditions
folklore
love
postcolonialism
publishing

performances
communal practices
spirituality
poetry
lists
clouds
collages