Phuong Ngo

Phuong Ngo is an artist living and working in Melbourne, Australia. His practice is concerned with the interpretation of history, memory, and place, and how it impacts the individual and collective identity of the Vietnamese diaspora. Through an archival process rooted in a conceptual practice, he seeks to find linkages between culture, politics, oral histories, and historic events, which in turn dictates the materiality of his artistic output.

Ngo’s work has been curated into seminal institutional exhibitions including the 2023 TarraWarra Biennial, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Melbourne; Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane 2022; Asia Pacific Triennial (APT10), QAGOMA 2021; Ballarat Foto Biennale, Ballarat 2021; Primavera 2018, Museum of Contemporary Art; Monash Gallery of Art; Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria;  RMIT Gallery, Melbourne; Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne; and Cheah Kongsi Obscura Festival, Penang, Malaysia. His solo exhibition Nostalgia For A Time That Never Was, was recently on at The Substation, Melbourne.  In 2022 Ngo was named winner of the Banyule Award for Works on Paper and a finalist in the Bowness Photography Prize and the Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award.

Ngo also practices in collaboration with Hwafern Quach under the name SLIPPAGE. SLIPPAGE examines the cycles of history in conjunction with current geopolitical and economic issues through the lens of vernacular cultures, artifacts, and language.