Modern Art is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new paintings by Julien Nguyen. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition with Modern Art.

The setting for Julien Nguyen’s new body of work is Biblical; each painting is composed through readymade scenes in which archetypal characters pose in some of the most archetypical scriptural tableaux. Scenes of the annunciation, the flagellation and the resurrection of Christ are just some narrated events that blend seamlessly into an art historical framework of late 19th and early 20th century painting’s perspectival studies of figures in space. But despite the fact that scenes of Nguyen’s paintings are often traceable to these canonical references, his subjects themselves are distinctively of their own time. As in much of Nguyen’s recent work, current North American political culture makes its way into his characters, as do renderings of demonic and ethereal fantasy creatures. Perhaps most distinctively though, included in his subjects, are faces from Nguyen’s own social scene of contemporary Los Angeles.

Julien Nguyen was born in 1990 in Washington DC, and he lives and works in Los Angeles. He completed his undergraduate degree at Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, (2012), and subsequently received his Meisterschulle from Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste,Städelschule, Frankfurt (2015). His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles, CA, USA (2016); Neue Alte Bruecke, Frankfurt, Germany (2015); Svetlana, New York, NY, USA (2015); and Kunstverein Munich, Munich, Germany (2014). His work has been included in group exhibitions such as the 2017 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA (2017); Parked like serious oysters, MMK, Frankfurt, Germany (2015); and Lost Boys, Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland (2013).

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