Hương Ngô

Hương Ngô is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in Santa Barbara, CA and Chicago, IL. Her work foregrounds experiences, histories, temporalities, and epistemologies of refugees and migrants, deconstructing tidy narratives of identity, statehood, and belonging in the process. Her interdisciplinary practice finds form in installations which include architectural sculpture, photography, print-making, and time-based media. All objects are in dialogue with one another, underscoring the interdependent nature of meaning-making.

She has exhibited her solo and collaborative work at numerous institutions including more recently: MASS MoCA, Fine Arts Center at Colorado College, Hessel Museum of Bard College, Kemper Museum, CAC Cincinnati, Chicago Cultural Center, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, The Factory Contemporary Art Centre HCMC, Renaissance Society, Phillips Collection, Museum of Modern Art, Para Site, DePaul Art Museum, and Nhà Sàn Collective. Additionally, she was a part of the 2005 Prague Biennial and Prospect.5 Triennial in New Orleans.

Ngô holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Art & Technology Studies, was a Whitney Independent Study Fellow in 2011-2012, and was awarded a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Grant in Vietnam in 2016. Her awards include being recipient of Chicago 3Arts and Next Level Awards, Camargo Core Fellowship, Illinois Art Council Fellowship, Asian Cultural Council Fellowship. Her work is part of the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, DePaul Art Museum, Smith College Museum of Art, and Walker Art Center, among others.

Photo by Darryl DeAngelo Terrell.