Pipo Nguyen-duy

Pipo Hieu Nguyen-duy is a fine art photographer, and a professor of Photography at Oberlin College.

Early life and education

Pipo was born in Hue, Vietnam in 1962. As a teenager, he competed on the Vietnamese national table tennis team. In 1975 at age 13, he left Vietnam for the United States as a boat person.
Pipo graduated from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota in 1983 with a BA in Economics after which he moved to New York City. 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.

Career

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.
He is represented by Sam Lee Gallery in Los Angeles, California.
He is a Professor teaching photography at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio.

Publications

The inscrutable traveller: the photographs of Tseng Kwong Chi, University of New Mexico, 1998
A thousand deaths Pipo, University of [New Mexico, 1993|A thousand deaths Pipo, University of New Mexico, 1993]

Awards

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. In 2011, Pipo won a Guggenheim Fellowship in the field of photography.