Hương Ngô: Film screening and conversation
US-based interdisciplinary artist Hương Ngô shares recent and new work.
Hương Ngô's interdisciplinary, research-based practice traverses borders and listens for what remains. At once intimate and political, Ngô's work excavates colonial archives, surveillance records, and the obscured histories of anti-colonial women, asking how artistic research might hold space for what empire tried to erase.
In this screening and conversation, Ngô will share her long engagement with text and translation, including recent projects drawing on personal and family histories and the war memoir as a form. She will introduce a forthcoming publication alongside other writings that centre intersectional feminism and the entanglements of art and politics within the United States and across Southeast Asia.
Please come ready to ask questions and think aloud.
The 2026 Sydney Asian Art Series is convened by Yvonne Low and Natalie Seiz, and co-presented by the Power Institute and VisAsia at the Art Gallery of NSW.
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Hương Ngô
Hương Ngô is an interdisciplinary, research-based artist. She was born in Hong Kong, holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Art & Technology Studies (2004), and was a Whitney Independent Study Fellow (2011-2012). She was awarded the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Grant in Vietnam (2016) for work that has been described as "deftly and defiantly decolonial" by New City and "what intersectional feminist art looks like'' by the Chicago Tribune. She works across mediums, traversing borders and making connections through differences. At once intimate and political, Ngô’s practice listens for what remains.
She has exhibited her solo and collaborative work at numerous international institutions including the MoMA, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Para Site in HK, The Factory in Ho Chi Minh City, and Nhà Sàn Collective in Hanoi. Her work is part of the permanent collections of the MoMA, DePaul Art Museum, Smith College, Colorado College, University of California Irvine, and Walker Art Center, among others. She was part of the Prague Biennial in 2005 and Prospect.5 Triennial in 2021. She is a lecturer at the University of California Santa Barbara and co-founder of Tiger Balm, an archive of conversations between artists of the Asian diaspora.
Photo credit: Leonard Suryajaya
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Wed, 19 August 2026
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