Since 2020, Nguyen has been living inside their car and migrating across Los Angeles county collecting artifacts found on the streets of the city. Described as talismans, found objects assembled from pendants, beads, twine, and string, ground the artist in their material conditions. Larger themes in this work touch on cultural anthropology, housing injustice, and excess consumerism.

Nguyen is expanding on their current and ongoing project/s relating to the notion of social-cultural transition/ing. Their sense of belonging is located in a collection of post-consumer materials through their experience of homelessness.

Utilizing various media and post-consumer materials, they explore and expose oppressive socio-political power structures within those values. Nguyen performed and exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently at Freewaves, The Mistake Room, The Hammer Museum, REDCAT, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, and Contemporary Irish Art Center Los Angeles. Their work has been written about in Artforum, the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Magazine, LA Weekly, Hyperallergic, Artillery magazine, and numerous online forums.

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