ARTIST BIO
Yeu Q Nguyen, nickname “Q” 2023
Yeu Q Nguyen is Vietnamese American artist and curator based in Los Angeles. She is best known for her interdisciplinary interactive installations, intricate objects, and ritualistic engagement art projects. Exploring themes such as immigrant identity, womanhood, and resilience, her expansive repertoire of works have appeared at notable venues such as the Autry's SouthWest Museum, the Geffen Playhouse, and the Armory Center for the Arts. Her traveling public art project "Weaving Hope" has been featured in The Collective Wellbeing Systems Map, which provides a snapshot of the wellbeing movement in the US and globally.
In 2021 she received a commission from the city of Santa Monica to create a semi-permanent fiber art installation at Tongva Park facing the famous Santa Monica pier. In 2022 her series on food and empathy "The Empathy Table” was featured in the Los Angeles Times’ August Sunday Edition. Q was one of the lead artists in "Reimagining Horizons" the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center’s 26th annual United States of Asian America Festival in San Francisco.
She is a long term member of the Asian American Women Artists Association, and active in advocacy for the representation of AAPI and BIPOC artists. Beyond her artistic and curatorial practice, Q is a published poet, a certified coach at Intersections for the Arts, and a public speaker on the power of art to create a more just and empathic society.
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