Felisa Nguyen (b. 2001) is a Canadian artist of Vietnamese descent, living and working in New York City. Her practice 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. 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.

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Felisa Nguyen
www.felisa.ca | felisanguyenwork@gmail.com | @palettknife

Education

2025 | MFA Fine Art. Parsons School of Design at The New School, New York, NY, USA.
2023 | BFA New Media. RTA School of Media at Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, ON, Canada.


Selected Exhibitions

2025 | Even the wind is cautious, Climate Control, San Francisco, CA, USA.
2025 | On Refuge: 50 Years of Recomposition, Orange County Center For Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA, USA.
2025 | Warehouse Market, SHISANWU, New York, NY, USA.
2025 | Feels Like an Idiom, ModA, New York, NY, USA.
2025 | Open Kitchen 002: Fusion, The BLANC x Li Tang Gallery, New York, NY, USA. 
2025 | Re: Turning, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery, New York, NY, USA.
2025 | Drawers, 25 East Gallery, New York, NY, USA. 
2023 | Odyssey, Northern Contemporary Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada.


Awards & Grants

2024 | Research & Travel Grant, The New School, New York, NY, USA.
2023 | TD FCCP Education Foundation New Horizon Scholarship, Toronto, ON, Canada.
2023 | Design + Technology Lab and Design Fabrication Zone Grant, Toronto, ON, Canada.
2022 | Karen Miller Tait Memorial Award, Toronto, ON, Canada.


Artist Talks

2025 | Language of Visibility, The BLANC, New York, NY, USA.
2025 | Memory by Hand, Parsons School of Design at The New School, New York, NY, USA.


Press

2025 | Vinh Pham, “002 Fusion: A Jest in Three Acts,” Impulse Magazine.
2025 | Phil Zheng Cai, “Conversation Between New York-based Curator and Writer and Emerging Artists,” Hot Coffee.
2025 | “Modern Anthropology’s Meaning of Love in NYC,” Paper Magazine.
2025 | Daniel Larkin, “Parsons Fine Arts MFA Students Help Us Navigate 2025,” Hyperallergic.
2023 | “New Scholarship Funds Students on the Cutting Edge, Where Art Meets Technology,” Toronto Metropolitan University.