Diane Severin Nguyen (b. 1990, Carson, California) lives and works in New York. She works with photography, video, installation, and performance. Through material and sculptural experimentation, Nguyen approaches the photographic moment as one of transformation. She is particularly interested in exceeding photography as a mode of documentation, and engages with it rather as a set of conditions shaped by desire and speculation. Her moving image works examine the histories of power, victimhood, and forms of propaganda that underpin cultural and self-image making. Her recent solo and group exhibitions have taken place at the Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, the Whitney Museum of American Art, SculptureCenter, The Renaissance Society, Rockbund Art Museum, MoMA PS1, the Carnegie Museum of Art, Schinkel Pavilion, Jeu de Paume, and the Hammer Museum, among others. Her films have been presented at prestigious film festivals, including the New York Film
Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, as well as Berlinale and Woche der Kritik. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2023.