Selected Recent and Upcoming Exhibitions:

2026

A Plot of One’s Own, Chinese American Museum of Chicago, Chicago, IL (curated by Caroline Ng, Riley Ren, and Leo Wang)

Creative Rebellion, 2026 Veteran Art Triennial, Resisting the Long War, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL (in collaboration with Hồng-Ân Trương) (curated by Aaron Hughes and Amber Zora)

Motherboards, San José Museum of Art, San Jose, CA (curated by Lauren Schell Dickens and Juan Omar Rodriguez)

Blue Collar Crime, DMST Atelier, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Lauren Kim)

2025

Womb of Fire, Gallery Medium and Vin Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (curated by Đỗ Tường Linh, Carmen Cortizas, and Vu Thien An Nguyen) (digital catalog forthcoming)

Womb of Fire, Mơ Art Space, Hanoi, Vietnam (curated by Đỗ Tường Linh, Carmen Cortizas, and Vu Thien An Nguyen) (digital catalog forthcoming)

The Speaking Place, Gate Gate Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (curated by Sofia Thiệu D'Amico)

2024

Core Memory, MCA Santa Barbara Satellite, Santa Barbara, CA *solo exhibition

This Space Is for Lost Time, TSA, Chicago, IL (curated by Noah Hanna) *solo exhibition

Vico’s Spiral, Center for Book Arts, New York City, NY (printed catalog)

Ungrafting, Fine Arts Center at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO (curated by Katja Rivera) (catalog) *solo exhibition

Seeing Through Stone, Institute of Arts and Sciences (IAS) at University of California, Santa Cruz, CA (curated by Gina Dent, Lauren Schell Dickens, and Rachel Nelson) (catalog)

2023

To See Oneself at a Distance, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (curated by Meghan Clare Considine)

Open Secret: Colonial Pasts and Presence, Hessel Museum of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (curated by Rachel Horvath)

Group Text, Left Field Gallery, Los Osos, CA (curated by Beta Epochs)

2022

We Are Beside Ourselves, James Gallery CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY (in collaboration with Hồng-Ân Trương) (curated by the Racial Imaginary Institute) *exhibition and performance

The Regional, The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO (curated by Jade Powers and Amara Antilla) (digital catalog)

Performing Documents: Modes of Assembling, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY (curated by Paige Landesberg) (printed catalog)

To The People Of That Future We Leave That Legacy, SPACES, Cleveland, OH (in collaboration with Hồng-Ân Trương) *solo exhibition

Nations by Artists, Art Museum at the University of Toronto, Toronto, CA (curated by Mikinaak Migwans & Sarah Robayo Sheridan) (podcast)

2021

Prospect 5, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA (curated by Diana Nawi and Naima J. Keith) (printed catalog)

The Regional, CAC, Cincinatti, OH (curated by Jade Powers and Amara Antilla) (digital catalog)

What Flies But Never Lands? Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL (curated by Minh Nguyen) (digital catalog)

The Wall Between Us, Museo MAGA, Gallarate, IT (in collaboration with Hồng-Ân Trương) (a project of Ottonella Mocellin and Nicola Pellegrini, curated by Elena Agudio) (publication)

2020

Material Intimacies, NXTHVN, New Haven, CT (curated by Michelle Phương Ting and Claire Kim) (printed catalog)

Nine Lives, Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL (curated by Karsten Lund and Caroline Picard) (digital catalog)

Alien vs Citizen, MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL (in collaboration with Hồng-Ân Trương) (curated by January Parkos-Arnall) *new commission

Khuất Dạng/Lost from View, The Factory, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (curated by Zoe Butt) *solo exhibition and performance

Within Global Isolation, Online Exhibition (curated by Han Hongzheng and Chandler Allen)

Labor: Motherhood & Art in 2020, New Mexico State University Art Museum, Las Cruces, NM (in collaboration with Hồng-Ân Trương) (curated by Laurel Nakadate)

2019

Turn the Light. Gallery 400, Chicago, IL (curated by Lorelei Stewart)

Contemporary Artists Reflect on the American War, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN (in collaboration with Hồng-Ân Trương)

The Warmth of Other Suns, in collaboration with Hồng-Ân Trương. The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C. (curated by Massimiliano Gioni and Natalie Bell)

Her Name Escapes Me, UIS Visual Arts Gallery, Springfield, IL (artist publication) *solo exhibition

In the Shadow of the Future, 4th Ward Project Space, Chicago, IL (artist publication) *solo exhibition

Taming a Wild Tongue, Vanderbilt University Space 204, Nashville, TN (artist publication) *solo exhibition

2018

To trace for to carry. Smith College Museum of Art, Northhampton, MA (curated by Emma Chubb)

Across County Lines: Contemporary Photography from the Piedmont, Nasher Museum, Durham, NC (in collaboration with Hồng-Ân Trương) (printed catalog)

Reap the Whirlwind. Aspect/Ratio, Chicago, IL *solo exhibition

What We Make, Ross Art Museum, Delaware, OH (in collaboration with Or Zubalsky) (curated by Erin Fletcher and Dr. Ashley Biser)

Mother, Leslie Tonkonow, New York, NY (in collaboration with Hồng-Ân Trương) (curated by Laurel Nakadate) 

Friend of a Friend, Document, Chicago, IL (curated by Sibylle Friche)

Being: New Photography 2018, MoMA, New York, NY (in collaboration with Hồng-Ân Trương) (curated by Lucy Gallun)

In(di)visible, Station Museum, Houston, TX (in collaboration with Hồng-Ân Trương) 

The Tip of My Tongue, Weinberg/Newton, Chicago, IL (curated by Kasia Houlihan) (printed catalog)

2017

Imagined Communities, Nationalism and Violence, Rubber Factory, New York, NY (in collaboration with Hồng-Ân Trương)

New Women, Anastasia Tinari Projects, Chicago, IL *performance

And the state of emergency is also always a state of emergence, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL (artist publication) *solo exhibition

You Open Your Mouth Half Way, The Ski Club, Milwaukee, WI *solo exhibition

White Light / Black Noise, The Franklin, Chicago, IL (curated by Edra Soto) (artist publication) *solo exhibition

In Search of Miss Ruthless, Para Site, Hong Kong, SAR (curated by Hera Chan and David Bourgonjon)

To Name It Is To See It, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL (urated by Julie Rodrigues Widholm) (publication) *solo exhibition

ALL RISE, MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL and UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC (in collaboration with Hồng-Ân Trương and Black Lunch Table) *performance

Otherwise you don't see me, SOHO20 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (in collaboration with Hồng-Ân Trương) (curated by Rachel Steinberg)

2016

Stormy Petrel / Guairdeall, VISUAL Carlow, Carlow, Ireland (invited artist with Orla Ryan, Alanna O'Kelly, & Bryan Hand)

Speaking in the Dark, Nhà Sàn Collective, Hanoi, Vietnam (two-person exhibition with Hồng-Ân Trương) *solo exhibition

Preview 6: We've Met Before, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL (curated by Faye Gleisser)

The Making of a Fugitive, MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL (curated by Faye Gleisser)

Hidden Assembly, Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR (in collaboration with Hồng-Ân Trương) (curated by Yaelle Amir)

Hidden Assembly, SPACES, Cleveland, OH (in collaboration with Hồng-Ân Trương) (curated by Yaelle Amir)

Recent Awards, Residencies, and Speaking Engagements:

2026

Artist Talk, Sydney Asian Art Series, The Power Institute and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (organized by Yvonne Low and Natalie Seiz)

Artist in Residence with Ngọc Nâu, Vietnam Art Collection, Hanoi, Vietnam

Moderator, Between Refuge and Refuse: New Mediums/Methods for Theorizing Refuge(e) Environments, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA

Artist Talk, Who Pays for This?: Art Collecting and Patronage in the Past, Present, and Future (course of Noah Hanna). School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

2025

Artist Talk, Do Disciplines Still Matter in the Environmental Humanities?, English Department and the Humanities and Fine Arts Dean’s Initiative, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA (organized by Heidi Amin-Hong and Bishnu Ghosh)

Artist Talk and Workshop. Creative-Critical Praxis (course of Mona Damluji). Department of Film and Media Studies, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA

3Arts Projects, Tiger Balm with Maggie Wong. 3Arts, Chicago, IL

SSEAC Incubation Grant, Southeast Asian Women in ‘Exile’, Project with Yvonne Low, Astrid Reza, and Nguyen Thi Minh, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Non-Senate Faculty Professional Development Award, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA

Visiting Panelist, The Matter of Memory After Forgetting (course of Kim Yasuda and Bruce Yonemoto). University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA and University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA

Artist Talk. Who Pays for This?: Art Collecting and Patronage in the Past, Present, and Future (course of Noah Hanna). School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

2024

Artist in Residence, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA

Artist Talk, Core Memory. MCA Santa Barbara Satellite, Santa Barbara, CA

Artist Talk and Workshop, Seeing Through Stone, Institute of Arts and Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA

Artist Grant, Asian Cultural Council, New York, NY

Artist Talk and Workshop, For the exhibition Ungrafting and the courses of Jean Gumpper and Kate Leonard, Fine Arts Center at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO

Workshop, Decolonizing Your Syllabus, organized by Kaia Olsen. College Art Association, Chicago, IL

Panelist, Imaginaries of Land in French Indochina and Beyond, part of Transnationalism of French Colonial and Post-Colonial Visual Culture, organized by Marie-Agathe Simonetti. College Art Association, Chicago, IL

Panelist, Landscape Arch Studio (course of Hyunch Sung), University of California Davis, Davis, CA

2023

Artist Talk, The Nation and Its Discontents (course of Kelly Chung), Williams College, Williamstown, MA

Artist Talk, Introduction to Visual Studies (course of Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn), Fulbright University, Ho Chi Minh City, VN

Artist Talk, Studio Visits, and Workshop. Illinois State University, Normal, IL

Non-Senate Faculty Professional Development Award, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA

Artist Choice Award Nominator, Ruth Arts Foundation

2022

Artist Talk. Visualizing Vietnam: Art, Photography, and Film (course of Marie-Agathe Simonetti), School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Invited Speaker and Graduate Studio Visits. Visiting Artist Colloquium. Department of Art, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA

Artist Talk, Diasporic Practices (course of Julia Phillips), University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Panelist, Voices in the Gallery: Panel Conversation on the Impact of the Midwest, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinatti, OH (organized by Amara Antilla)

Artist Talk and Virtual Panel Discussion: UN Resolution 181, SPACES, Cleveland, OH

Artist Fellowship, Illinois Arts Council, Chicago, IL

2021

Del Otre Lado, O’Hare Airport Terminal 5 Arrival Corridor, Chicago, IL (in collaboration with Hồng-Ân Trương) (curated by Ionit Behar and Andrew Schachman, Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) and the Chicago Department of Aviation)

Faculty Enrichment Grant. School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Artist Talk, Traitors and Translators, Art History + Practice Conversations Series, with Nora Taylor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Artist Talk and Graduate Studio Visits, Sousveillance and How To Think Like a Forest. Hanes Visiting Artist Lecture Series, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC

Artist Talk, Printmedia Seminar (course of Shaurya Kumar). School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Panelist, Art Advancing Justice, CAAU and Advancing Justice Chicago, Chicago, IL (organized by Greg Bae)

Panelist, On Viruses – Critical Theories of Contagion. EXPO Alternate Assembly, Chicago, IL

Artist Talk, A Night of Offering, NXTHVN, For the exhibition Material Intimacies, New Haven, CT

2020

Artist Talk, We Are Still Here: Presence In Absence. The Centre for Ethnography at University of Toronto, co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology and the Department of Arts, Culture and Media, Toronto, CA

Artist Talk, For the exhibition Khuất Dạng/Lost from View, The Factory Ho Chi Minh City, VN, (curated by Zoe Butt)

Next Level Award. 3Arts, Chicago, IL

Artist Fellowship, Illinois Artist Council, Chicago, IL

Artist in Residence, MANA Contemporary, Chicago, IL

2019

Artist Talk, To Name It Is to See It: Identity and Misrecognition, UIS ECCE Speaker Series, Springfield, IL

Artist Talk and Graduate Studio Visits, RISD Digital + Media, Providence, RI

Faculty Enrichment Grant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Artist Talk and Graduate Studio Visits, Voices Lecture Series, Gallery 400. University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL

Individual Artist Program Grant, Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, Chicago, IL

2018

Artist Award. 3Arts, Chicago, IL

Panelist, Ulterior Emergencies: Aesthetics, Labor, and Re-Sighting Policy, American Studies Association, Atlanta, GA (organized by Faye Gleisser)

Panelist, Take Root Among The Stars: Visionary Fiction and the Legacy of Octavia Butler, Conversations on Art and Science. School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (organized by D. Denenge Duyst-Akpem)

Individual Artist Grant, Illinois Arts Council, Chicago, IL

Camargo Fellowship. Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France

Artist Talk, Introduction to Art and Imaging Race: Photography & the Archive (courses of Faye Gleisser), Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

Artist Talk and Graduate Studio Visits, Parlor Room Presents, Photo Department, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Individual Artist Program Grant, Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, Chicago, IL

2017

Artist Talk and Graduate Studio Visit, Interlink Visiting Artist Program, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Artist Talk, Diasporic Art (course of Jamál Currie), Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Milwaukee, WI

Artist in Residence. Ragdale Foundation, Lake View, IL

Individual Artist Program Grant, Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, Chicago, IL

Artist Talk, Research Studio (course of Luis Sahagun). School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

2016

Artist in Residence, BOLT Residency Program, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL

Artist in Residence, International Residency Program, Sàn Art, Ho Chi Minh City, VN

Recent Writings and Media:

“Future Loops,” Hương Ngô and Ngọc Nâu. Artifact Journal Issue #2, Vietnam Art Collection.

“Hauntings,” Hương Ngô. Best Wishes, Ruth Foundation for the Arts (Summer, 2025).

“Alongside: Hương Ngô and Kim Garcia in dialogue,” Lum Art Magazine (October, 2024).

Ungrafting, Edited by Katja Rivera, including an essay by Justin Quang Nguyên Phan, and conversations between Ngô and Aline Lo, and Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi and Chadwick Allen, Co-published by Inventory Press and the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College.

“The Opposite of Looking Is Not Invisibility. The Opposite of Yellow Is Not Gold,” Hương Ngô, Hồng-Ân Trương. Performative Representation of Working-Class Laborers, Palgrave MacMillan.

Supervision: On Motherhood and Surveillance, Sophie Hamacher and Jessica Hankey, MIT Press.

“Images Deferred,” Hương Ngô, Hồng-Ân Trương, and Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn, (Be)longing, Repair, and Its Politics of Affects, Savvy Contemporary.

“Nói Lái,” Hương Ngô for Performing Documents: Modes of Assembling, Paige Landesberg.

Episode 3: Archive/Counter-Archive. Nations By Artist Podcast. Art Museum University of Toronto (Toronto, CA).

“We are still here / Chúng ta vẫn ở đây / Narito pa rin kami,” Hương Ngô for When the Storm Comes, a collaboration between feminist publishers Gantala Press and Bar de Force Press.

“Hương Ngô on translation.” Nine Lives: artist reflections. Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL.

“An Art Museum Is a ___ Place to Be a Refugee,” Hương Ngô and Hồng-Ân Trương for Shifter 24: Learning & Unlearning, edited by Avi Alpert & Sreshta Rit Premnath.

Selected Press:

“At San José Museum of Art, Technology Is Women’s Work,” Sarah Hotchkiss. KQED.

“Race Graft: Decolonial Relations in Hương Ngô’s French Indochina and Beyond,” Justin Quang Nguyên Phan. Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience.

“Memorial Park: Revisiting Vietnam,” Minh Nguyen. Art Metropole. Wendy’s Subway.

“Words Set Aflame At ‘The Speaking Place’,” Kiều Nga for Vietcetera.

“Language and the Right of Refusal,” Vinh Phu Pham for Art & Market.

“Vantage Point: Discoveries in the humanities from overlooked and underestimated spaces,” Debra Herrick for University of California Santa Barbara Magazine.

“Art Review | Explored and Inherited Memory Banking,” Josef Woodard for Santa Barbara Independent.

“Creating reflections of Southeast Asian refugees,” Debra Herrick for University of California Santa Barbara Magazine.

“Generational Memory and Labor are Focus of New Hương Ngô Exhibition,” Debra Herrick for Santa Barbara Independent.

“The Post-socialist Condition: Nostalgia and Anti-communism in Vietnamese Art” Minh Nguyen for E-Flux Journal, Issue #148.

“Hương Ngô on the hidden labor behind technology,” Coco Picard for Chicago Reader.

“Hương Ngô: Ungrafting,” Nina Peterson for Daria Art Magazine.

“Art installation examines Vietnamese refugee history,” Debra Herrick for The Current, University of California Santa Barbara.

“In the Shadow of the Future: Interview with Hương Ngô,”  Maya Simkin for Something To Look Forward To, Sixty + For the Birds Trapped in Airports, 2023.

“Rising and Sinking Again at the Hessel Museum of Art Reflects on the Contemporary as a Reckoning with the Past,” Bard College.

“Sonic Infidelities: Performing Time, Space, and Nonalignment in Hương Ngô’s In the Shadow of the Future,” Justin Phan for Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas (Volume 8 (2022) 113–134).

“In Pictures: See the Sharp, City-Spanning Art From the Long-Awaited Return of the Prospect New Orleans Triennial,” Ben Davis for Artnet News.

“City of Chicago Announces Artists Who Will Be Part of O'Hare Terminal 5 Expansion,” Chicago Gallery News.

Khái niệm “Quyền nữ” từ triển lãm Khuất dạng tới lời rap của Suboi, Master Media Academy.

“The Stuff of Life,” Danni Shen for Art in America.

“Principles, Protest, & Power,” Ionit Behar for Bridge Journal (Volume 21, number 1).

“About That Narrative: Hương Ngô,” Lexie Casais for Smith College Museum of Art.

“Art Apart: Citizenship Rights, At What Cost?” Marguerite Wynter for MCA – Blog.

“Continuously Becoming: A Review of Nine Lives at the Renaissance Society,” Christina Nafziger for New City Chicago.

“Lost from View, Hương Ngô,” Review by Quyen Hoang for ArtAsiaPacific.

“Chicago non-profit 3Arts awards $150,000 to three women artists,” Ruth Lopez for The Art Newspaper.

“Art 50 2020: Chicago’s Artists’ Artists” Kerry Cordoza for New City Chicago.

“Exit Strategy: Huong Ngo’s Escape in the Time of Pandemic,” Noah Hanna for The Seen Journal.

“Cuộc đào xới những phụ nữ 'khuất dạng',” Mai Thụy for Tuổi Trẻ.

“‘Khuất dạng’: Khai đào vai trò của phụ nữ trong lịch sử qua góc nhìn nam tính độc hại,” Lê Phan for Báo Phụ Nữ.

“Why COVID-19 Spurred Us to Create an Online Show Highlighting the Asian Experience,” Hongzheng Han and Chandler Allen for Artsy.net

“Within Global Isolation: Asian Artists in America,” Sahar Khraibani for The Brooklyn Rail.

“Misbehaving Books: Challenging Reads from the Rosemary Furtak Artist Book Collection,” Jennifer Riestenberg for Walker Sightlines.

“Adding a Multiplicity of Identities at a Time,” interview with Jacob Zhang for Gallery No One.

“Critics’ Pick,” Minh Nguyen for Artforum.

“In the Shadow of the Future: Interview with Hương Ngô,” Maya Simkin for Sixty Inches from Center.

“Chicago: New Networks of Alterity and Resistance,” Laura Kina for ArtAsiaPacific.

“The Document as Event: Vietnamese Artists’ Engagement with History,” Nora Taylor for Art Journal.

“Hương Ngô: Reap the Whirlwind,” Caroline Picard for Fabrik.

“3Arts awards grants are about the whole artist, and awardees revel in the freedom,” Darcel Rockett for the Chicago Tribune.

“From the Archives, Out of the Darkness: A Review of Huong Ngo at Aspect/Ratio Projects,” Anastasia Tinari for Newcity Chicago.

“Hương Ngô: Reflecting Winds of Perception and Change,” Chester Alamo-Costello for The COMP Magazine.

“Critic’s Picks: Hương Ngô and Tonika Lewis Johnson,” Shannon Waldman for fnewsmagazine.

“Art in the Age of Surveillance,” Nicole Lane for Exhibitions on the Cusp.

“Chicago Roundup,” Orit Gat for Art Agenda.

“Being: New Photography,” Graham W. Bell for Brooklyn Rail.

“Being: New Photography,” New Yorker.

"Material Witness Witness Material," Nicole Miller for Brooklyn Rail.

“The Browser: MoMA’s Gripping ‘New Photography’ Goes Behind the Lens,” Alex Greenberger for ARTNEWS.

“MoMA's New Photography Show Is a Testament to Being Human,” Sarah Valdez for VICE.

“Discover 5 Artists Breathing New Life Into Photography in MoMA’s Biannual Survey,” Taylor Dafoe for ARTNET News.

"MoMA's Human Focus," Richard Woodward for Wall Street Journal.

"Interviews: Huong Ngo and Hong-An Truong as Told to Daniel Quiles," Artforum.

"Deftly and Defiantly Decolonial," B. David Harley for New City.

"This is what intersectional feminist art looks like," Lori Waxman for the Chicago Tribune.

"Breakout Artists 2017," Noah Hanna for New City Chicago.

"Interview with Huong Ngo," Jessica Perez for the Asian American Art Oral History Project.

"After a Call for Change, Artists Respond," Jillian Steinhauer for Hyperallergic.

"Common Spaces," Holland Cotter for The New York Times.

"Artist Profile: Huong Ngo," Ian Glover for Rhizome.

"Things Done with Words," Stephen Squibb for Idiom Magazine.

"Lessons Learned 1: Huong Ngo," Amara Antilla for the Walker Arts Center.

"A Nest of All Possible Worlds," Albert Stabler for NY Arts Magazine.

"Show muses on our nervous times," Lauren Viera for the Chicago Tribune.