Diane Severin Nguyen
b. 1990, Carson, CA Lives and works in New York, NY
EDUCATION
2019 MFA, Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY
2013 BA, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
SELECTED SOLO & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2026 Powerless, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany (upcoming)
WAR SONGS duet, Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Diane Severin Nguyen × Linda Lach, Gunia Nowik Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
WAR SONGS, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
Diane Severin Nguyen, Fotomuseum Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
2025 WAR SONGS, Performa Biennial, New York, NY
Spring Snow, Galerie Molitor, Berlin, Germany
2024 If I hadn’t created my own world, I would have died in someone else’s, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2023 In Her Time, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Diane Severin Nguyen, La Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
2022 IF REVOLUTION IS A SICKNESS, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX
Diane Severin Nguyen, Huis Marseille Museum of Photography, Amsterdam, Netherlands
IF REVOLUTION IS A SICKNESS, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL
2021 IF REVOLUTION IS A SICKNESS, SculptureCenter, New York, NY
Between Two Solitudes, Stereo, Warsaw, Poland
2020 Tyrant Star, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
2019 Reoccurring Afterlife, Empty Gallery, Hong Kong
Dead Slow, Julien Monnerie & Diane Severin Nguyen, Exo Exo, Paris, France
Minor twin worlds, Brandon Ndife & Diane Severin Nguyen, Bureau, New York, NY
Flesh Before Body, Bad Reputation, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Reupholstered and Undressed, LOMEX, New York, NY
Lost Object, Matthew Brown, New York, NY
The Plantation Plot, KADIST, Paris, France
2025 The Impermanent: Four Takes on the Collection, MoMA Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
The Plantation Plot, ILHAM Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
It Smells Like Girl, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, CA
Pigment Compound, P21, Seoul, South Korea
Hope is a dangerous thing, PPOW, New York, NY
my hands are monsters who believe in magic, Amory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
Herausgeforderte Gemeinschaft, Kunstmuseum Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany
Aftershock, Podium Gallery, Hong Kong
Musafiri, Das Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
The year is XXXX, Nguyen Art Foundation, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Womb of Fire, Mơ Art Space, Hanoi, Vietnam
2024 Rapture, Galerie Balice Hertling, Paris, France
Shadow Self, Huis Marseille Museum of Photography, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Written on Water, Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Even Better Than The Real Thing, Whitney Biennial 2024, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Hypnopomp, Canepa Selling, Los Angeles
2023 Trance, Tallinn Photomonth, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tallinn, Estonia
Artist Film Series: Diane Severin Nguyen (Screening), The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
MOMENTUM 12: Together as to gather, Galleri F 15, Moss, Norway
40th EVA International, Limerick City, Ireland
IF REVOLUTION IS A SICKNESS (Screening), Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
Human Is, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin
2022 Fanatic Heart, Para Site, Hong Kong
Love’s Work, Galerie Molitor, Berlin, Germany
Live Without Dead Time, Ghost 2565 Triennial, Bangkok, Thailand
IF REVOLUTION IS A SICKNESS (Screening), 60th New York Film Festival, New York
Is it morning for you yet?, The 58th Carnegie International, curated by Sohrab Mohebbi, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Sweet Days of Discipline, Hannah Hoffman, Los Angeles
Transactions with Eternity, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin
Into the Unknown: Moving Images from the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, SALT BEYOGLU, SALT GALATA, Istanbul, Turkey
One hundred eighty-six billion steps to the sun, C L E A R I N G, New York, NY
IF REVOLUTION IS A SICKNESS (Screening), ArPa São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Work and Leisure, curated by Liv Cuniberti and Jeppe Ugelvig, Sala Impasti, Milan, Italy
Fata Morgana, curated by Béatrice Gross, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
IF REVOLUTION IS A SICKNESS (Screening), Berlin International Film Festival, Berlin, Germany
A Glimpse of the Setting Remains, curated by Giovanna Manzotti, Clima, Milan, Italy
2021 Greater New York, MoMA PS1, New York, NY
Metabolic Rift, Berlin Atonal, Berlin, Germany
So Many Stars, STARS, Los Angeles, CA
Bodies of Water: 13th Shanghai Biennale, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
2020 Made in L.A. 2020: a version, Hammer Museum, The Huntington, Los Angeles, CA
Materia Medica, curated by Kelly Akashi, François Ghebaly, Los Angeles, CA
Until tomorrow: Ten Years of Bureau, Bureau, New York, NY
Tyrant Star (Screening), Yebisu Festival, Tokyo, Japan
Tyrant Star (Screening), IFFR Rotterdam, Netherlands
2019 Focus Group, Von Ammon Co., Washington, D.C.
A story forms, Bel Ami, Los Angeles, CA
Tyrant Star (Screening), 57th New York Film Festival, New York, NY
A Fickle Aggregate, Chen’s World, Brooklyn, NY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2026 Andrew Berardini, ‘Glitter and Doom,’ Artforum, March
María Inés Plaza Lazo, ‘People Watch Movies to Understand History,’ Arts of the Working Class, March
2025 Emily Watlington, ‘Performa Diary: A Year of Sexy Revolutionaries,’ Art in America, November
Travis Diehl, ‘In Defense of Awkward Idealism,’ Spike Art Magazine, November
Johanna Fateman, ‘Party in the U.S.A.? With ‘War Songs,’ Diane Severin Nguyen Asks What Protest Music Really Means,’ Cultured Magazine, October
Hilarie Sheets, ‘Performance Art Wasn’t on Their Radar. But, ‘What if’?,’ The New York Times, October
Humberto Leon, ‘The New ‘Alt’,’ Works in Practice Magazine, October
Whitney Mallett, ‘An Interview of: Diane Severin Nguyen’, AUTRE, October
Aodhan Madden, ‘The New Delicious: Group Portrait Torbjørn Rødland, Diane Severin Nguyen, Yair Oelbaum,’ Spike Magazine, March
2024 Yuka Murakami, ‘The Light Decay of History: Diane Severin Nguyen’s Trilogy,’ Millennium Film Journal, October
Art Critique, ‘The humanity of an actor in “In Her Time (Iris’ Version),”’ Art Critique, May
Andrew V. Uroskie, ‘WHITNEY BIENNIAL 2024,’ Artforum, May
Coco Zhou, ‘Diane Severin Nguyen: In Her Time (Iris’s Version),’ ArtAsiaPacific, April
Jason Farago, ‘The Beauty and the Cynicism,’ The New York Times, March
Terence Trouillot, ‘The Whitney Biennial’s Quietude Shouldn’t Be Overlooked,’ Frieze, March
Olivia Kan-Sperling, ‘Diane Severin Nguyen: Re-Enactment, Acting, Action,’ Flash Art, March
2023 Zhang Zhihui, ‘Exhibition Review: Critics Pick, Diane Severin Nguyen Shanghai Rockbund Art Museum,’ Artforum China, August
Rosa Boshier González, ‘Pop Politics: Diane Severin Nguyen’s IF REVOLUTION IS A SICKNESS,’ Burnaway, February
Margaret Kross, ‘The 58th Carnegie International Is an Assemblage of Revolutionary Strategies,’ Frieze, January
2022 Do Tuong Linh, ‘TOP TEN,’ Artforum, December
Brittanie Shey, ‘Diane Severin Nguyen finds beauty in K-pop, TikTok, and the immigrant experience,’ Chron, October
Aily Nash, ‘IF REVOLUTION IS A SICKNESS: A Conversation,’ Non-Fiction #4 Peculiar Forms, June
Jennifer Smart, ‘Alien She: A Review of Diane Severin Nguyen at the Renaissance Society,’ Newcity Art, June
Emily Chun, ‘Diane Severin Nguyen’s If Revolution is a Sickness,’ ArtAsiaPacific, January
Domenick Ammirati, ‘Under the Skin of Newness,’ Artforum, January
Benjamin Hirte, ‘Which Revolution?’, Spike Art Magazine, Issue 60, January
2021 Hiji Nam, ‘Revolution, Restaged and Translated: Diane Severin Nguyen,’ Art in America, December
Travis Diehl, ‘Diane Severin Nguyen’s Millennial Revolution,’ Frieze, December
Taylor Dafoe, ‘With Homemade Napalm and K-pop Anthems, Photographer-Filmmaker Diane Severin Nguyen Is Forging a New Genre of Image,’ Artnet News, December
Dawn Chan, ‘What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries Right Now: Diane Severin Nguyen,’ The New York Times, November
Rachel Remick, ‘Diane Severin Nguyen: If Revolution Is a Sickness,’ The Brooklyn Rail, November
Peter Brock, ‘Diane Severin Nguyen’s IF REVOLUTION IS A SICKNESS,’ Art-agenda, October
Kristen Tauer, ‘Artist Diane Severin Nguyen Found Inspiration in K-pop and Poland,’ WWD, October
Lloyd Wise, ‘Portfolio: Diane Severin Nguyen,’ Artforum, October, p. 150-155
Alec Recinos, ‘The Presence of the Perfect Image: Diane Severin Nguyen Interview,’ BOMB Magazine, February
2020 Amanda Waltz, ‘Carnegie Museum of Art highlights local and emerging artists with latest offerings,’ Pittsburgh City Paper, November
Made in L.A. 2020: a version, Exhibition Catalog, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Ophelia Lai, ‘Features: Diane Severin Nguyen,’ ArtAsiaPacific, 120, Sep/Oct, p. 60 – 61
Franklin Melendez, ‘Diane Severin Nguyen,’ Kaleidoscope, Issue 36/SS20
Image contribution, Spike Art Magazine, #64, Summer
Adriana Balsamo & Hilary Moss, ‘Savor a Week Full of History and Hope,’ The New York Times, June
Sohrab Mohebbi, ‘Diane Severin Nguyen,’ OSMOS, Issue 20, p. 1 – 7
2019 Dean Kissick, ‘Diane Severin Nguyen’s Images Aren’t What They Seem,’ Cultured Magazine, 30 Under 35, November
Ela Bittencourt, ‘Familiar Yet Strange: Shorts From This Year’s Projection Showcase at the NY Film Fest,’ Hyperallergic, October
Lucas Blalock, ‘Animal, Vegetable, Material,’ Objektiv, Issue 19, June
Todd von Ammon, ‘Diane Severin Nguyen,’ CURA, Issue 31
Kyle Thomas Hinton, ‘To Dirty Them Immaculately...,’ X-TRA, March
PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS
2023 Not in this life, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX
FELLOWSHIPS
2023 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, Fine Arts
Arison Artadia New York City Award
TEACHING
Columbia University (Visiting Critic)
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (Visiting Artist)
Cooper Union (Adjunct Faculty)
COLLECTIONS
Whitney Museum of American Art
Carnegie Museum of Art
Hammer Museum
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
MIT List Visual Arts Center
Museum of Modern Art Warsaw
Kadist Foundation
Nguyen Art Foundation
Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography
The Escalette Collection of Art, Chapman University
FRAC Alsace
Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles