Nancy Nguyen
Born Drunk and Die in a Dream

March 7 - April 5, 2025
Reception: Friday, March 7, 5:00 -8:00 p.m.

Nancy Nguyen
*Four Moons*, 2025
Oil on canvas
40 x 40 inch

I woke up in the same room again

I reach for the door

The floors beneath me began to dissolve

Pushed into darkness

I woke up in the same room

My skull is compressed

Slow and aware

I reach for the door again

This isn’t my house

The demon of sleep screams

I woke up in the same room

Calmness seeps into my awareness

I walk over to turn on the lamp

The light tells me a secret

Heaviness surrounds me

I woke up in the same room again

Nancy Nguyen (b. 1994 San Jose) is an artist living in Berkeley, CA. Nguyen’s work examines paradoxes found in Buddhist texts and aims to dismantle nature into transphenomenal experiences. The act of painting attends to the tension between awareness and the inconceivable, in mutual annihilation. She received her BFA in Pictorial Studies from San Jose State University and has recently exhibited at Personal Space, Pt. 2, with an upcoming exhibition at Slash.