Diane Severin Nguyen earned her MFA from Bard College in 2020. Her photographic work explores transformation and impermanence through staged compositions featuring unstable, melting, or decaying materials. Surface beauty in her images gives way to deeper reflections on material fragility, cultural ambiguity, and the mutability of meaning. She has exhibited her work internationally at renowned venues such as HKW Berlin, the Whitney Museum of American Art, SculptureCenter, The Renaissance Society, Rockbund Art Museum, MoMA PS1, the Carnegie Museum of Art, Schinkel Pavilion, Jeu de Paume, and the Hammer Museum, among others. Her films have been showcased at prestigious film festivals, including the New York Film Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, as well as Berlinale and Woche der Kritik. Recently, she conceived a performance at the Museum of Modern Art Warsaw and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2023. Her work is held in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Hammer Museum and the Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, among others. ...
Established in September 2017 in the heart of Itaewon, Seoul, P21 has been dedicated to presenting contemporary art of the 21st century. Unbound by medium or generation, the gallery has introduced a carefully curated selection of emerging and established artists from both Korea and abroad. Its program has centered on key themes such as the subversion of order, materiality, and artistic agency. With a growing focus on international engagement, P21 has actively explored the Korean diaspora while introducing leading global artists to the Korean audience through diverse and in-depth exhibitions and seeks to broaden the global reach of Korean artist. ...
