Hương Ngô (Huong Ngo, Ngô Ngọc Hương, 吳玉香) is an interdisciplinary artist and educator. Her work attends to refugee epistemologies, expanding concepts of time and knowledge to those that are generational, ecological, ruptured, and reconstructed. Often beginning with research in national and personal archives, she realizes her work through installation, works on paper, and performance. Through her art practice, she gives form to individual and collective narratives that might otherwise be lost – inviting the past to haunt the present – sculpting a future within the ruination. 

Ngô’s artistic practice has been recognized and exhibited at institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, MCA Chicago, the New Museum in New York, and the Renaissance Society in Chicago, among others. She was awarded the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Grant in Vietnam in 2016 and has been described as "deftly and defiantly decolonial" by New City and "what intersectional feminist art looks like" by the Chicago Tribune. Ngô's achievements also include being twice recipient of the 3Arts Award and being featured in the Prague Biennial in 2005 and Prospect.5 Triennial in 2021.

Ngô is currently visiting lecturer at University of California Santa Barbara. She was recently an assistant professor of Contemporary Practices at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she helped to institute the school’s first department-wide anti-racism committee, which inspired the school-wide ARC. While living in France, she organized a series of artist lectures, UJVF Rencontre, in collaboration with Liem Binh Luong Nguyen and in cooperation with WoMA Paris. Information and recordings can be found here.

Hương Ngô’s name is set in Đanh Đá outline, part of the Đanh Đá typeface family created in collaboration with Giang Nguyen. Read more here.

Excerpts from an interview with Hồng-Ân Trương for Artforum. Read article here.

O’Hare Airport Commission with Hồng-Ân Trương: chân trời foot of the sky

TRÒ CHUYỆN CÙNG NGHỆ SĨ HƯƠNG NGÔ | ARTIST TALK WITH HƯƠNG NGÔ, Factory Contemporary Arts Centre, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. More information here.

3Arts Awardee: Huong Ngo. View profile here.

NSE #69 | Within Global Isolation: Asian Artists in America, Brooklyn Rail, NYC.