Love Nguyen

“when you channel what’s in your heart and let god guide your intuition, you never follow trends or “should’s”. you simply create beautiful, authentic works and worlds.”

select exhibitions

“Whisper their sinful names” group show @ Chez Max Et Dorothea , Los Angeles
“Miracles in letting go” solo show @CAW , Santa Barbara
“oroboro” solo show @pluto projects , Los Angeles (online)
“remembering dreams” solo show @chiron house , Ojai
“futures” Group show @santa paula museum , santa paula
“residents” group show @arcosanti , Mayer
“thus spake the fungus” curated by santi vernetti @arturo bandini, Los Angeles
“Grup show” @cudayh , Los Angeles
“Vietnamese Currents” @San Francisco arts commission , San Francisco

select curatorial work

“community/humanity: ilka hartmann” @chiron house , ojai
“jim melchert” @sea levels , ojai
“group draw: barry mcgee, joshua petker, tyson reeder, alexis rockman” @Sea levels , ojai
“marc hundley” @look up gallery , guernville
“ariana papademetropoulis” @look up gallery , guernville
“Artists are like water: marie lorenz, will rogan, jeremy everett,” @look up gallery , Guernville
“play with your own marbles: Walead Beshty, Karl haendel, patrick hill” @NOMA Gallery , san francisco
“no birds allowed: christian jankowski, jonathan casella, guy overfelt, love nguyen” @noma gallery, san francisco
“carnivalesque: bruce conner, ara peterson, Tyson Reeder” @treasure island festival , san francisco
“cosmic wonder” james turrell, terence koh, ara peterson & jim drain, mark borthwick, richard misrach, doug aitken, yayoi kusama, mariko mori, sam gordon, anna sew hoy, takashi murata, paperrad, yukinori maeda, hanna fushihara & David Aron, banks violette, arik roper, deborah warner, hisham bharoocha, mike paré @yerba buena center for the arts , san francisco

select creatively produced programs

“anything goes” artist flea market @Come what may festival, santa barbara
“family supper plank”, 2 night, 60 person dinner event @chiron house , ojai
”Artists are like water” 40 mile boat excursion w/ marie lorenz
“women in the desert & seeking the present": workshops w/ eve fowler, anna sew hoy @ace hotel palm springs
“radical foods” 125 person dinner/film screening/exhibition w/ host les blank & google, san francisco
”Brontez purnell” berkeley museum of art/ pacific film archives, berkeley
”Asia and our moment” @Yerba buena center for the arts, san francisco
”Beautiful losers” @yerba buena center for the arts, san francisco
“no birds allowed: cedar sigo, marshall trammell, david enos @noma gallery , san francisco
“soft pink truth, nate boyce” @Rickshaw Stop , san francisco
“Girls” live band w/ christopher owens (first show) @Cafe du nord , san francisco

select performances

“Death ritual” @chiron house, ojai
“M” with marie lorenz, @high desert test sites biennial curated by andrea zittell, joshua tree
“artists are like clouds” for kairotic festival @glass box gallery, UC Santa Barbara
“forgetful snow”, choreography by melinda ring @box gallery , Los Angeles
“the sound of icebergs melting” w/ sunland dancers and lucky dragons, score by pauline oliveros @Pieter Space, los angeles
“Runaway feeling” w/ sunland dancers for “made in LA” biennial @hammer museum , los angeles

select publishing/writing

first person magazine -publisher/editor, New york & san francsico
the Journal Magazine -Editor/Curator, New york
cosmic wonder, exhibition catalog-publisher/editor
ojai quarterly-music editor
soma magazine - guest music editor
xlr8r- monthly columnist
self service magazine-contributing writer
dazed and confused, contributing writer

Artist residencies

Joan Mitchell , New Orleans, LA
workshop de allende , San Miguel, mexico
var, sausalito, ca
arcosanti, AZ

Lectures/art admin

uc Santa Barbara- grad dept., artist lecture
city of ojai, ca -Arts commissioner
Berkeley Art Museum/pacific film archives-Advisory board

bibliography/press

san francisco chronicle “Cosmic Wonder” by kenneth baker
V Magazine “cosmic wonder”
Self service Magazine “Los Angeles”