EventsThe New Social Environment#1326

Alison Nguyen: Perforation, Ellipse

Featuring Nguyen and Lumi Tan

Wednesday, March 4, 2026 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

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Artist Alison Nguyen joins curator Lumi Tan for a conversation on Zoom.

Alison Nguyen

A photo of Alison Nguyen on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment

Alison Nguyen is a visual artist and filmmaker working across video, installation, and sculpture. Her practice combines the particulars of the personal with an exploration into broader forces of history. With approaches of speculative fiction, documentary research, and performance, Nguyen’s practice proposes counter-mythologies. Nguyen’s work has been presented internationally in galleries and institutions and in film festivals. Alison Nguyen received her M.F.A. in Visual Art from Columbia University and her B.A. in Literary Arts from Brown University. She was a 2023–2024 Studio Fellow at the Whitney Independent Study Program.

    Lumi Tan

    A photo of Lumi Tan on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment

    Photo by Isabel Asha Penzilien

    Lumi Tan is an independent curator and writer based in New York City, specializing in interdisciplinary exhibitions and performances. Current and upcoming projects include those at Doosan Gallery, Seoul; Performance Space New York; and the 2026 Converge45 city-wide exhibition in Portland, Oregon. She has been the curator of the Focus section at Frieze New York since 2024, and from 2022–2024, she was the Curatorial Director of Luna Luna, a revival of the world’s first art amusement park created by André Heller in 1987. Tan was Senior Curator at The Kitchen, where over a twelve-year tenure, she organized over 100 exhibitions and performances. Her writing has appeared in The New York TimesArtforumFriezeMouse, Cura, Art in America, and many exhibition catalogues and artist monographs. 

    We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨

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