Liza Nguyen Education Awards, Grants and

Liza Nguyen
1979 Born in France. Works and lives in Paris and Düsseldorf in Germany.
Education
2004-2005 Class of Thomas Ruff, Fine Arts Academy of Düsseldorf, Germany
2004 Master Degree of Arts with honors, La Sorbonne - Paris I University, France
2003 Master Degree of Photography with honors, Ecole Nationale Supérieure Louis Lumière,
France
Awards, Grants and Residencies (selection)
2006 Artist grant for one year, DAAD - German Academic Exchange Service, Germany
2005 Award of the International Biennial of Art "Industry and Nature", Lulea, Sweden
2005 Prize Winner of the Photography Award "Prix Fnac Européen de la Photographie",
France
2005 Artist grant for one year, DAAD - German Academic Exchange Service, Germany
2005 Artist Grant, OFAJ, Paris, France
2004 Artist Creation Grant, Museum of Contemporary Art - Val de Marne, France
2004 Prize Winner of the Photography Award "Bourse du Talent" n°23 by Kodak, France
2003 Special Mention of the "Young Creator Gras-Savoye" Award, RIP, Arles, France
2003 First Price of "HP Invision" photography contest, France
Publications in magazines (selection)
2006 "Surface", Point magazine, n°1, January, Los Angeles
2006 "L'Agent Orange tue encore" by F. Gendreau, Le Monde Diplomatique, n°622, January,
Paris
2005 "Surface Series" by Ralf F. Broekman, Build magazine, n°5, p.34-37, Germany
2005 "Poussières d'Empire", Libération, 9 Août 2005, p.IV, + magazine "L'année Photo"
2005 "Souvenirs du Vietnam", Courrier International, July, Paris
2005 "Vietnam: photographies et éthique du souvenir" by Octave Debary, Ciel Variable, n°68,
July, Montréal
2005 "Surface" by Larisa Dryansky, Photo Nouvelles magazine, n° 34, July-August, p. 30-33,
Paris
2005 "Objectif de conscience" by Juliette Lambert, Libération, 27th of April, p.34-35, Paris
2004 "Liza Nguyen" by Gilles Klein, Reflex Numérique magazine, n°18, December, pp. 46-48,
illus
2004 "Liza Nguyen Façades d'existence" by Marc Villemain, Toc magazine, n°4, April-May,
pp. 22-25, illus, Paris
2003 "Du Sel au Pixel" newspaper, Ecole Nationale Supérieure Louis Lumière, n°19, Arles,
France
Solo exhibitions
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Gallery Peter Fetterman, Los Angeles
Gallery 44, Toronto, Canada
Art Gallery, Calgary, Canada
Gallery Heinz Bossert, Cologne, Germany
French Institute, Düsseldorf and Berlin
Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Ireland
Alternator Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Cultural Center Auguste-Dobel, Paris, France
2004 Damen & Herren e.V Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany
Group exhibitions (selection)
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Harbourt Front Center, Toronto, Canada
Gallery Caprice Horn, Berlin (November)
"Mois de la Photographie" Photo Festival, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
"Les Estivales du Tregor" Photo Festival, L'imagerie Gallery, Lannion, France
"Earth", International Biennial Fotofest, Houston, USA (catalogue)
"Les traversées de l'histoire", Foundation for Contemporary Art, Ecureuil Gallery,
Toulouse, France
"Stages of Memory : The Vietnam War", Museum of Contemporary Photography,
Chicago, USA
2005 "Muse heute", Kunsthalle, Bremen, Germany (catalogue)
"Traces and Omens", the Nooderlicht Photo Festival, Groningen, Netherlands
(catalogue)
"L'été photographique festival", Center of Photography, Lectoure, France
"Prix Fnac Européen de la Photographie", International Festival of Photography RIP,
Arles, France
"11 Nguyens and the 30 Year Loss", PH Gallery, New-York
"Feldstärke", Pact Zollverein, Essen, Germany
"Industry and Nature", International Biennial of Art, Lulea, Sweden (catalogue).
"Forum de l'Image", Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art "Les Abattoirs",
Toulouse, France
"LesTransphotographiques" festival, Lille, France
"Mur-Réflexion", Cultural Center Auguste-Dobel, Paris, France (catalogue)
"Les lauréats de la Bourse du Talent", Picto Montparnasse Gallery, Paris, France
"Voies Off" festival, International Festival of Photography RIP, Arles, France
"Du sel au Pixel", 34th International Festival of Photography RIP, Centre de
Conservation du Livre, Arles
"Le cinéma dans la ville", in Hotel Scribe Gallery, Paris, France
Public Collection
USA: Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
France: Galeries Fnac, Paris; Mairie de Romainville