Representative work by Kenny Nguyen
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Artist

Kenny Nguyen

b. 1990, Ben Tre, Vietnam · Based in Charlotte, North Carolina

  • BFA, University of North Carolina at Charlotte (2016)
  • Silk Painting
  • Sculpture
  • Textiles

Kenny Nguyen develops undulating 'silk paintings' by cutting raw Vietnamese silk into strips, coating them in acrylic paint, and pinning hundreds of individual strips into three-dimensional, cascading wall sculptures. His flexible, textured compositions examine migration, cultural displacement, and tactile heritage.

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