Vy Ngo

07/20/2025

My recent trip to NYC was centered around seeing Jack Whitten: The Messenger

To say that this monumental exhibition of over 175 of Whitten’s works was powerful, inspirational, and timeless is an understatement. Whitten used the material and surface to create questions around memory, perceived realities, and how abstraction can be a form of cultural rebellion. He took me deep into his process and taught me the meaning of “controlled chance” and the importance of taking risks in order to find freedom in expansion. His work showed me the historical inequalities in the art world but how he persevered and continued to push his work despite this. (To those who know what I’m referring to….Whitten used his “developer” to make these blurred abstracted landscapes a full decade before Gerard Richter became famous for his squeegee paintings.)

Taking in every detail, layer, technique, reading, voice commentary, studio photographs, and scale and body of his work, I am left imprinted and forever changed as an artist and human being.

I am looking forward to returning to the studio in this new place with purpose and intention and in service as a messenger.
Thank you for encouraging me to take this trip, sharing in this experience, and for giving me the space and time I needed while allowing the deep conversations and reflections to unfold afterwards. I am so grateful for you. ❤️

07/01/2025

“Projections of Hue” I , II, III, 2025
Acrylic, colored pencils, oil on panel
14” x 11”

I’m showing the first in this series with my ICOSA fam at TRYST Art Fair in Torrance, California!

TRYST brings together 70 artist-run spaces from all over the world. No big galleries, no gatekeeping. Just artists supporting artists. ❤️‍🔥

📅 July 11–13
📍 Del Amo Crossing, Torrance, CA
💸 FREE entry!

If you’re in the LA area, pull up! Let’s hang, talk art, and support independent creatives.

2025 PARTICIPATING SPACES:

INTERNATIONAL: Alpha Contemporary (Tokyo), Artspace Mexico (CDMX); AYN Gallery (Paris), The Black Piglet (CDMX), BLECH (Germany), The Bureau of Q***r Art (Mexico/USA), Changeable Beasts (London), Estudio Marte (CDMX), The Farm & Distillery (Berlin), FokiaNou Art Space (Athens), MinEastry of Postcollapse Art and Culture (Switzerland), Open O’pen$ (Ukraine), PASAJ (Istanbul), Plomo (CDMX), Shelter Artists Run Space (Portugal/Turkey)

NATIONAL: 601 Artspace (NYC), After / time (Portland), Dark Time Poetics (Chickamauga, GA), FSN Contemporary (NYC), Mercury20 (Oakland, CA), Hyperlink (Denver, CO), ICOSA Collective (Austin, TX), Millie Benson Projects (NYC), Proyectos Raul Zamudio (NYC) ,PRP (Dallas, TX), SFAA (Chicago/ San Francisco), Scrambled Eggs (Las Vegas), South Square Studios (Las Vegas), TAD Projects (Denver, CO), Taos Abstract Artist Collective (TAAC) (Taos, NM), Teleportal (NYC), Woman Made Gallery (Chicago, IL)

www.torranceartmuseum.com

05/16/2025

“Truly”, 2023
Acrylic, colored pencils, molding paste, and oil on canvas
48” x 36”

“Surrendering to the Tide”, 2025
Acrylic, colored pencils, molding paste, and oil on canvas
36” x 36”

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These two pieces will be shown at the Marfa Invitational this upcoming May 16-26 at Saint George Hall. I am excited and honored to be exhibiting along with 150 other artists from all across Texas. This is an opportunity for us to come together as a community and show up in solidarity for how the arts needs to be held to the highest value, integrity, and purpose in serving the cultural landscape of our time. Art is an act of resistance and so will be our joy!

Special thanks to curator for the studio visit.

See y’all soon!

05/03/2025

04/28/2025

Two years ago, I had an artist talk held at 6 am for the Artist Run Club for my exhibition “Borderless” at ICOSA Gallery. It just happened to coincide with my birthday and had the entire group sing to me as I blew out a candle on a sweet morning treat. It was truly a wonderful way to start off my birthday and share my work.

So if you missed my artist talk few weeks ago for “Lucitations” and want to get your blood pumping with some good creative discussion followed by an early morning run, come join us this Wednesday April 30th!

I can promise lots of hand movement and energy from me but no guarantee I will join the 🏃🏻‍♀️ part.

Artist Run Club
Wednesday April 30
Artist Talk 6:30 am
Run 7:00 am


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04/24/2025

“Dancing in the Liminal Space”, 2025
Acrylic, colored pencils, oil on canvas
36” x 36”
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I always think about movement as a form of flow, whether It be in physical space, emotional processing, or creative expression. As a dancer, I am very much in tune with my body and how It translates onto the canvas. Allowing things to unfold and flow with ease as we navigate challenges or opportunities of growth is also brought into this conversation on movement. Do we resist and remain in stagnation or do we move with trust and awareness to allow things to organically form?

There can be so much to learn from the act of creation and its place in healing and connection to ourselves, each other, and our environment. Come on a journey with me .redefined to expand more on these ideas and visit my work in the current exhibition “Lucitations” at ICOSA Gallery with Shawn Camp

Lucitations
Shawn Camp and Vy Ngo
April 11 - May 10, 2025
Gallery Hours Friday - Saturday 12-6 pm
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04/22/2025

“A Deep Knowing”, 2025
Acrylic, colored pencils, oil on canvas
48” x 48”
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Happy Earth Day!
There is a deep knowing that we are connected to the Earth and all that is in Universe. Our survival and existence depends on this understanding and our relationship to nature. We must revere It, feel It, and protect It. So for every sunset and sunrise, for the wind amongst the trees and dance with ocean waves, and every plant, creature, animal, and mineral, we honor our shared experience and feel the beauty in all of It.

04/21/2025

“Be Still Here”, 2025
Acrylic, colored pencils. oil sticks, oil on linen
70” x 54”
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There are certain places and people that carry an energy with them that is palpable yet hard to describe. Joshua Tree was one of those places. The landscape emitted the most glorious vibrations I have ever experienced that It changed me forever. Our interactions with our surroundings and each other all have the capacity to do this. That said, choose how you carry your energy wisely.

Lucitations at ICOSA Gallery
Shawn Camp and Vy Ngo
April 11 - May 10, 2025
Friday-Saturday 12-6pm
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03/18/2025

Details from a current WIP from my upcoming exhibition Lucitations.

Memories and inspiration from my travels over the past few years can be seen in this body of work.