Maya Nguyen is a Vietnamese-Russian interdisciplinary artist with a focus on  sound performance and diasporic making. She gathers speech fragments, urban recordings, body movements, migratory routes, sounds imitating nature sounds, and videos of daily life into open-ended compositions. These often take the shape of performance lectures, sound installations, movement works, and videos.

She holds a B.A. in Philosophy and Comparative Literature from the University of Chicago and an M.F.A in Sound from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has shown work with Vincom Center for Contemporary Art (Hanoi), UCLA New Wight Gallery (Los Angeles), Manzi Art Space (Hanoi), Berlin Art Week 2024 (Berlin), World Forum For Acoustic Ecology 2023 (Florida), Internationales Digitalkunst Festival 2022 (Stuttgart), Terrain Biennial 2021 (Chicago), Watershed Art & Ecology (Chicago), Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics (Colorado), and elsewhere. She has been an artist-in-residence at Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik (Berlin) and Saari Residency (Mynämäki, FI), winner of Karl Sczuka Radio Art Research Prize 2024 and an Arts Club of Chicago Fellow 2025-26.

New Media Gallery 2024-25: huh ugh uh hm mhm

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Education Projects