Bio
Elaine Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American interdisciplinary artist based in San Francisco, CA. She holds a MFA from UC Davis and a BFA in Painting and BA in Humanities from Maryland Institute College of Art and was Root Division's 24/25 Blau-Gold Teaching fellow. Her work has been exhibited at The Berkeley Art Center, Root Division, the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Roxie Theater, Brea Gallery, Axis Gallery among others. She has been an artist in residence at MassMoca, Foundation Obras, LaSalle Tropical Lab and World of Co.
Elaine Nguyen is exploring identity, displacement, and the search for home alongside the discovery of new dreams. She uses cyanotypes to capture the fluidity of memory and the passage of time through light. Interested in the emotive aspect of immersion in water and sky, she utilizes blue to convey a sense of wandering and seeking. Her works take on the shapes of clouds, reminiscent of cultural symbols that become sleeping dreams waiting to be discovered, or light filtering through spaces longing to be remembered.
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