Networks of Invisible Labour

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