Background
Pipo was born in Hue, Vietnam.
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Pipo Nguyen-duy
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Pipo graduated from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota in 1983 with a Bachelor in Economics after which he moved to New New York Pipo completed his Master of Arts in Photography from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque in 1992 and his Masters of Fine Arts in 1995.
Career
As a teenager, he competed on the Vietnamese national table tennis team In 1975 at age 13, he left Vietnam for the United States as a boat person. He participated as an artist-in-residence at Monet’s Garden through The Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Artists at Giverny Fellowship, and also at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California.
He participated in Light Work’s Artist-in-Residence program in 2004.
His work has been exhibited and are in public collections in the United States, Europe, Asia and South America. Pipo is an Professor teaching photography at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio.
Achievements
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Pipo has received many awards and grants including an En Foco Grant. A Professional Development Grant from the College Arts Association. An American Photography Institute’s National Graduate Fellowship, New York City. 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. In 2011, Pipo won a Guggenheim Fellowship in the field of photography.
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