Pipo Hieu Nguyen-duy (born 1962) is a

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, and a professor of Photography at Oberlin College.

Early life

Pipo was born in Hue, Vietnam in 1962. As a teenager, he competed on the Vietnamese national

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team. In 1975 at age 13, he left Vietnam for the

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as a boat person. Pipo graduated from Carleton College in

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in 1983 with a BA in Economics after which he moved to New York.

Career

Pipo completed his

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in Photography from the

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in 1992 and his

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in 1995. Pipo has received many awards and grants including a Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography, 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

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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. He 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. His work has been exhibited and are in public collections in the United States, Europe, Asia and South America. He is represented by Sam Lee Gallery in

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. Pipo is a Professor teaching photography at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. In 2011, Pipo won a Guggenheim Fellowship in the field of photography.

Books & significant catalogues

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

References

External links

*http://art.uga.edu/index.php?pt=4&id=111 *http://www2.kenyon.edu/artgallery/exhibitions/0405/n-duy/n-duy.htm {{DEFAULTSORT:Nguyen-Duy, Pipo Living people Photographers from Oregon 1962 births People from Ashland, Oregon Oberlin College faculty Carleton College alumni University of New Mexico alumni Vietnamese emigrants to the United States Artists of Vietnamese descent Academics of Vietnamese descent Fine art photographers