Hương Ngô is an interdisciplinary and conceptual artist, born in Hong Kong and based in the US. Her research-based practice addresses histories of colonization and migration in a framework of transnational feminism.

Important, heart-rending, and elucidating, Huong Ngô’s “To Name It Is To See It” feels like nothing less than conceptual magic.The artist’s largest museum presentation to date, it is a show which paradoxically manages to be both freighted with import—themes as heavy as dying stars—and suffused with information but minimal in its ...

“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.

Ngo guides the participants through workshops using bird calls as scores for performative uses of their languages. While the concept of white light is more familiar, black noise is the technical term for silence, but also describes a range of sounds that are just beyond human perception, thus asking what we might be missing when we are not ...

Conceived by Huong Ngo, a second-year graduate student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, "Escape" uses "escape pods"--portable shelters which can in turn be deconstructed and reassembled into "protective" clothing.

This urban landscape serves as the back drop of Hương Ngô’s exhibition at 4th Ward Project Space, In the Shadow of the Future. Begun in 2014, Ngô worked with members of the Vietnamese community in Paris to create a multi-channel video installation based on the character of Phạm Tuân, who quietly haunts these remnants of futuristic housing projects – many named after communist heroes ...

New Women tells the story of three women working for a contemporary women's magazine and was originally written in 1944 by seminal Vietnamese playwright Vũ Đình Long. Although the play was seen as modernizing because of its French-influenced "théâtre-parlé" style, the plot champions a patr

AND, AND, AND — Stammering: An Interview In collaboration with Hồng-Ân Trương Interview/interrogation as performance of citizenship 2010 – ongoing “What defines the [multiplicity] is the AND, as something which has its place between the elements or between the sets. AND, AND, AND — stammering.” — Gilles Deleuze In this tutorial, participants who have never had to naturalize ...

Work This Space Is for Lost... Ungrafting A Question or a Problem.. The Sea Turns Into... It Was Her Handwriting... Reap the Whirlwind New Women To Name It Is to See It The State of Emergency... The Voice is an Archive ESCAPE Collaborative Shadow of the Future chân trời foot of the sky People of That Future... The Opposite of Looking.. AND, AND, AND... Pedagogical Participatory About News ...

Feb 28, 2020 · The University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery presents “Her Name Escapes Me,” an exhibition of recent works by Chicago artist Hương Ngô opening with a reception from 6:30-8 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 24. The free exhibit will remain open to the public through Thursday, Nov. 21. Ngô’s work connects language and power in the understanding of how colonial ideology is enacted on ...