Artspeak

• Kim Nguyen

  A curator and writer based in San Francisco, where she is Curator and Head of Programs at the CCA Wattis Institute. Nguyen was formerly Director/Curator of Artspeak from 2011-2016. Her writing has appeared in exhibition catalogues and periodicals nationally and internationally, with recent texts in catalogues published by Pied-à-Terre (San Francisco), Gluck 50/Mousse (Milan), and the Herning Museum of Art (Denmark). Nguyen is the recipient of the 2015 Hnatyshyn Foundation Award for Emerging Curators in Contemporary Canadian Art and the 2016 Joan Lowndes Award from the Canada Council for the Arts for excellence in critical and curatorial writing.

• Danh Vo

  Danh Vo was born in Vietnam in 1975 and grew up in Denmark. He studied at the Royal Art Academy in Copenhagen and at Städelschule in Frankfurt. Recent solo exhibitions include Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria in 2012, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, in 2011, the National Museum for Art, Copenhagen in 2010, Artists Space, New York in 2010, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, in 2009, and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 2008. Upcoming solo exhibitions of his work will take place at the Renaissance Society, Chicago; and Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, France. He was the recipient of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation’s 2012 Hugo Boss Prize.