Mai Nguyen-Long

MAI NGUYEN-LONG

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015: Mai Nguyen-Long: New Media Work, Mosman Art Gallery, The Cube (contemporary exhibition space) NSW 7 Feb–17 May
2014: Neat Severances, NG Art Gallery Chippendale NSW
2014: Beyogmos, Wollongong Art Gallery, NSW 28 Feb–25 May
2012: Diffusion, NG Art Gallery, Chippendale NSW
2011: Red Dream, SLOT, Redfern NSW
2010: True Blue Doggie Morph, NG Art Gallery, NSW
2008: Godog and the Ascension of Dag Girl, NG Art Gallery, Chippendale NSW
2007: Dag Girl and the Baby in the Box, SLOT, Redfern NSW
2007: Aqua Mutt: an Installation with Dag Girl, Incinerator Arts Complex VIC
2004: Mai Long, SLOT, Redfern NSW
2003: Mai Long Sydney Paintings, Ray Hughes Gallery, Surry Hills NSW
1999: Food Hall: Sweet After Taste, Regent Street Gallery, Redfern NSW
1998: Myopic Macros, Sutton Gallery, Fitzroy VIC
1998: Mai Long New Works, Bellas Gallery, Fortitude Valley QLD
1996: Mai Nguyen Long, Bellas Gallery, Fortitude Valley QLD
1996: E Chong: A Bilingual Installation with Incorrect Translations, Hanoi University of Fine Arts, Vietnam
1996: Transit Lounge (Arrivals–Departures), Australia Centre Gallery, Philippines

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017: Collections Connection: Size Matters Least 29 April-18 June 2017, Kids Gallery Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre NSW
2017: (collections exhibition – title to be provided) 1 July 2017-25 March 2018, Wollongong Art Gallery NSW
2016: Studio Switch: curated by residency artists, Casula Powerhouse NSW
2014: Beastly, Delmar Gallery, Ashfield NSW
2013: International Women’s Day, Project Contemporary Artspace, Wollongong NSW
2012: Agent Orange Art: Agent Orange Justice, Mori Gallery NSW
2012: Edge of Elsewhere: In Memory of a Name COR project, 4A Gallery NSW
2012: Generations, Wollongong Art Gallery, Wollongong NSW
2011: Switching / Shifting, East & West Art, Kew East VIC
2010: Chemical Agents, Artists of the 17th Parallel, Library Artspace, Nth Fitzroy VIC
2009: Nam Bang!, Casula Powerhouse NSW
2009: Vietnam Voices, Casula Powerhouse NSW (variation from 1999: new work)
2009: Minding Animals, John Paynter Gallery Newcastle NSW
2009: Artists of the 17th Parallel SLOT, Redfern NSW
2009: SLOT 5th Year Anniversary, Satellite Project, Redfern NSW
2009: Finalist: Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing NSW
2009: Finalist: Blake Prize for Religious Art Director’s Cut NSW
2008: Finalist: Salon Des Refuses, SH Ervin & River Art Gallery NSW
2008: Super Seed, Frasers Studios, Chippendale NSW
2007: Fragile Planet, NG Art Gallery, Chippendale NSW
2007: Political Football, The Artist’s Garden, Fitzroy VIC
2006-8: I Love Pho, Casula Powerhouse Project (touring NSW, VIC, WA)
2000: Ba Chi Em Cabramatta Library, Cutcliffe Gallery, NSW Parliament House
2000: Viet: 25 Years of Vietnamese Settlement, Casula Powerhouse NSW
2000: Thinking Aloud, Ray Hughes Gallery, Surry Hills NSW
1999 -2009: Vietnam Voices: Australians and the Vietnam War, Casula Powerhouse NSW
1997: Vietnam Voices, Casula Powerhouse, Casula NSW
1996: Ang de Latang Pinoy (Yes, the Filipino Can!), Hiraya Gallery, Philippines
1996: Editions, Bellas Gallery, Fortitude Valley QLD
1996: Feature Artist: Schizophrenia Awareness, Brisbane Exhibition Centre QLD

PROJECTS: COMMUNITY & ARTISTIC
2015: Public Art: Umbrella Project (Wollongong City Council Commission)
2015: Community Workshop: Mad Hatter workshop for target community participants (Wollongong City Council: Community, Cultural & Economic Development Worker)
2014: Exhibition Workshop: Beyogmos (Beyond the Dog Cosmos) Workshops Wollongong Art Gallery
2012: Community Cultural Development Project: Metamorphic Mongrels (Festivals Australia Grant $11,700)
2010-2012: Performance 4A Storytelling Project: Storyteller/Performer Directed by William Yang & Annette Shun Wah
2009: Workshop & Exhibition for Disadvantaged Schools: Mission Mongrel (City of Melbourne/ArtPlay Grant $20,000)
2008: Exhibition Workshop: Pho Dog the Mongrel Adventurer National Tour
2008-2014: Freelance: Mongrel Workshops
1999: Australian Youth Ambassador for Development

RESIDENCIES
2015: (2 weeks) Hoa Binh EcoArt Vietnam workshop / international and local artists residency Hoa Binh Muong Studio funded by ACCA Viet (Vietnam-based curatorial group); 2015: (5 weeks) Hanoi Vietnam Copyright Agency Residency Bat Trang Ceramics Village (more detail below); 2008: (3 months) Sydney SLOT Studio Redfern NSW; 2008: (3 months) Sydney Frasers Studios Chippendale NSW; 1996: (2 months) Hanoi University of Fine Arts Vietnam via Queensland College of Art; 1996: (2 months) Manila Studio, Philippines via Queensland College of Art/Visual Arts and Crafts Board Art

2015: Copyright Agency Cultural Fund $2,000 Ceramics Residency (5 weeks)
Nestled on Hanoi’s Red River, Bat Trang is a Vietnamese village with seven centuries of ceramics history: residency with artist Bang Si Truc and artisan Pham Anh Duc at Bat Trang Conservation and Tourism Development. Experimented with making ceramics for the first time; translated and extended some existing mediums – painting, drawing, papier-mache sculpture – into stoneware objects by throwing, hand-building, decorating, glazing and firing.

4a Centre for Contemporary Asian Art Professional Development Curatorium
2012 FX Harsono (contemporary Indonesian artist visiting Australia) Critical Forum: Edge of Elsewhere COR project, “Celebrate-Obliterate-Recreate: an invisible ritual of shared sacrifice” conceived and coordinated by Mai Nguyen-Long for In Memory of a Name project, drawing on a sharing exercise involving personal stories and photographs of 10 participants; hosted and exhibited by 4a Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. Mai’s project idea, collaborating with all participants was exhibited at 4A gallery space in tendem with FX Harsono’s work.

EXHIBITIONS ADMINISTRATION & COORDINATION
2007-Feb 2015: Volunteer ad hoc assistant SLOT; Steering Committee Headlands Public Art Project, Next Wave Arts Festival, VIC; 1992: Gallery Assistant, Red Gate Gallery, PR China (part time 2 months); CURATED BY MAI: Art from Vietnam: SLOT Dec 2014-Feb 2015 Mai brought 2 exhibitions back from Vietnam with her, presenting two artists from very different working perspectives: George Burchett 14 Dec 2014 – 10 Jan 2015 Democracy; Jamie Maxtone-Graham 11 Jan-7 Feb 2015 State of Youth; Artists of the 17th Parallel (A17P): SLOT 2009 Van Thanh Rudd: “From the Queen’s land to…”; Dominic Hong Duc Golding: “What are you fighting for…?”

COLLECTIONS
Artbank, Australian Embassy in Hanoi, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane City Hall Art Gallery, Casula Powerhouse Sydney, Wollongong Art Gallery, as well as Private and Corporate Collections in Australia and abroad.

EDUCATION
2017: (current) Doctor of Creative Arts, University of Wollongong, practice-led research conducted with the support of the Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship
1997: Master of Arts in Visual Arts, Queensland College Art, Griffith University
1994: Postgraduate Diploma in Museum Studies, University of Sydney
1992: Bachelor of Arts / Asian Studies (majoring in Art History and Modern Chinese), Australian National University
1988: International Baccalaureate Diploma, American International School Manila, Philippines