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Opening reception for Hong-An Truong's solo exhibition, We Are Beside Ourselves.

Please join us for a closing reception of Hồng-Ân Trương's solo exhibition. The final day to view the exhibition is October 14, 2018 (Sunday) Hồng-Ân Trương will be in conversation with scholar and curator, denisse andrade. Hồng-Ân Trương (1976) uses photography, video, sound, and sculpture to examine histories of war as well as immigrant, refugee, and decolonial narratives. Her work engages with the concept that politics is the struggle for equal recognition within society, with aesthetics at the core of this battle. Starting with the premise that memory is political, her projects examine structures of time, memory, and the production of knowledge by engaging with archival materials, individual and collective narratives, and histories that span cultural and national borders. Her work has been shown at the International Center for Photography, NY; Art in General, NY; Smack Mellon, NY; the Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC; and The Kitchen, NY, among others. In 2013 she was recipient of an Art Matters Grant, a Franconia Sculpture Park Jerome Fellowship, and a Socrates Sculpture Park Emerging Artist Fellowship. She was an artist-in-residence at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in 2015 and at Marble House Project in 2017. Recent exhibitions include a two-person show at Nhà Sàn in Hanoi, Vietnam and the Irish Museum of Art in 2016; and two group shows at The Drawing Center in NY as part of the Open Session Program in 2017. In 2017 she was awarded a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant for a solo show at Lump Gallery in Raleigh, NC. She was included in the most recent iteration of Prospect New Orleans, P4: The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp. Her work is included in Being: New Photography 2018, the latest edition of MoMA’s New Photography series. She received her MFA from the University of California, Irvine, and was a studio art fellow in the Whitney Independent Study Program in 2008-2009. She is an Associate Professor of Art and Director of Graduate Studies in the MFA Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. denisse andrade is a PhD candidate in Geography at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her dissertation looks at the poetics and politics of land practices in the Black Radical movement of the 1960s and 1970s. denisse is a curator, and educator with experience teaching across disciplines, in non-institutional/ community-based settings and throughout the CUNY system, and more rencently at Pratt Institute. She is the recipient of the Humanities New York Fellowship for Public Humanities through which she's producing an archival-based reading room and a publication addressing new ways of looking at the radical histories of the 60s. She is currently a Scholar-in-Residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.