Pipo Nguyen-duy | |
|---|---|
| Born | Nguyễn Duy Hiếu 1962 (age 62–63) |
| Nationality |  United States |
| Education | University of New Mexico |
| Known for | Photography |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship |
Pipo Hieu Nguyen-duy (born 1962) is a fine art photographer, and a professor of Photography at Oberlin College. [1]
Pipo was born in Hue, Vietnam in 1962. [2] As a teenager, he competed on the Vietnamese national table tennis team. [3] In 1975 at age 13, he left Vietnam for the United States as a boat person. [4]
Pipo graduated from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota in 1983 with a BA in Economics after which he moved to New York City. [3] He completed his Master of Arts in Photography from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque in 1992 and his Masters of Fine Arts in 1995. [3]
Pipo participated as an artist-in-residence at Monet's Garden through The Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Artists at Giverny Fellowship, at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California, in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program. [5]
He is represented by Sam Lee Gallery in Los Angeles, California. [3]
He is a Professor teaching photography at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. [6]
Pipo has received a National Endowment for the Arts, an En Foco Grant; a Professional Development Grant from the College Arts Association; an American Photography Institute's National Graduate Fellowship, NYC; a fellowship from the Oregon Arts Commission in Salem, Oregon; a B. Wade and Jane B. White Fellowship in the Humanities at Oberlin College; and two Individual Artists Fellowship from the Ohio Arts Council in Columbus, Ohio.[ citation needed ] In 2011, Pipo won a Guggenheim Fellowship in the field of photography. [8]
