Loan Nguyen Lausanne, Switzerland. 1977 Nguyen graduated from the School of Applied Arts in Vevey in 2000, where she attended workshops run by Helmut Newton and Arno Minkkinen, among others. In 2002, she joined the POC (Piece of Cake) Collective, a network of young European photographers. After taking part in collective exhibitions all over Europe, she held her first individual exhibition in 2003 at the Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, which has been representing her work ever since. In 2006, Loan Nguyen participated with 20 other promising artists in the collective exhibition Real Fantasies: New Photography from Switzerland at Switzerland s Fotomuseum Winterthur. SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2010 Solo show, Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris, France Horizon vertical Festival, Bandol, France 2009 Solo show, Kunsthalle Erfurt, Germany Nostalghia. Galerie ESF, Lausanne, France Flux. Lausanne, Annecy, Nyon, Vevey 2008 Solo show, Ego Gallery, Barcelona, Spain Solo show, Journées photographiques de Bienne. Galerie Quellgasse Real Photography Award, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Le bruissement des images. Centre Photographique d Île de France Reflecting Vietnam II, Forum für Photographie. Köln, Germany 2007 Solo show, Galerie Herrmann & Wagner, Berlin, Germany Solo show, Terrains d entente. touring show in the FNAC network Solo show, Duncan Miller Gallery, Los Angeles, USA Held together with water, MAK. Vienne, Austria Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris, France Bestiarium. Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris, France Alone together, La Halle de Pont en Royans. France 2006 Alone together. Galerie Nouvelles Images, La Haie, The Netherlands FSM Gallery, Florence, Italy
2005 Solo show. Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris Solo show. Galerie Herrmann & Wagner, Berlin, Germany Solo show. Galerie Basta, Lausanne, France 2004 Solo show. Fashion photography cycle, Galerie Partikel, Lucerne, Switzerland, 18.9-16.10 Solo show. Espace L entretemps, Le Bon Marché, Paris, France, 6.6-11.9 Solo show. 10 designers, Hyères Festival for Fashion Arts, Hyères, France, 30.4-6.6 Vagues 2. Musée Malraux, Le Havre, France Poc In Town. Forum fur Fotos, Cologne, Germany 2003 Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris, France Foreign hands. Forum de l Hôtel de Ville, Lausanne, Switzerland Young Photography. Galerie La Filature, Mulhouse, France The Selection VFG 2002. Zürich, Switzerland Hyères Festival for Fashion Arts, Photographic selection. Hyères, France 2002 POC Project. Pôle Image Haute Normandie, Rouen, France 2001 Arts de vivre, Vaud 2000. Espace Arlaud, Lausanne, Switzerland Young swiss photography selection VFG, Küsnacht, Switzerland 2000 Lausanne Jardins 2000, MuDac, Lausanne, Switzerland OU-T, Diploma work, Applied Art School, Vevey, Switzerland 1999 Senza Thema, Festival Portfolio in Piazza. Savignano, Italy 1998 La Parabole des Aveugles. Rencontres d Arles, France AWARDS 2007 Fondation Vaudoise de la Culture, Visual Arts prize 2005 Award by the Arts Council of Switzerland Pro-Helvetia BIBLIOGRAPHY 2007 De retour, Christoph Merian Verlag, 64 p. 2006 Reale Fantasien, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Christoph Merian Verlag, 216 p. (catalogue) 2005 Mobile, POC Editions, 64 p. 2004 Vagues, Hommages et digressions, Musée Malraux, 173 p. (catalogue) Hyères 2004 (catalogue), FIAMH, 96 p.
PUBLICATIONS Air France magazine Stiletto Dazed & Confused, UK Wired, USA Vogue, France Our-Magazine, Switzerland Elle. France Le Temps, Switzerland Edelweiss, Switzerland UpStreet, France Photo News, Germany Bald Ego, USA FAIRS 2003-2008 Paris Photo, Art Cologne, FIAC, Art Brussels, Photo London, with Gallery Esther Woerdehoff Member of Piece Of Cake, european network for contemporary image
Loan Nguyen Work Arbre, 2006 24.8 x 31.4 in Brouillard, 2006
Cercle, 2002 From the series Mobile 19.6 x 39.37 in Ciseaux, 2006
Lunettes, 2006 Ponton, 2006
Tonnerre, 2006