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Pipo Nguyen-duy
Pipo Hieu Nguyen-duy (born 1962) is a fine art photographer, and a professor of Photography at Oberlin College.[1] Early life and educationPipo was born in Hue, Vietnam in 1962.[2] As a teenager, he competed on the Vietnamese national table tennis team.[3] In 1975 at age 13, he left Vietnam for the United States as a boat person.[4] Pipo graduated from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota in 1983 with a BA in Economics after which he moved to New York City.[3] He completed his Master of Arts in Photography from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque in 1992 and his Masters of Fine Arts in 1995.[3] CareerPipo 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.[5] He is represented by Sam Lee Gallery in Los Angeles, California.[3] He is a Professor teaching photography at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio.[6] Publications
AwardsPipo has received 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 Oregon Arts Commission 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.[citation needed] In 2011, Pipo won a Guggenheim Fellowship in the field of photography. [8] References
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