Birthday

2002-09-24

Place of Birth

Chalon-sur-Saône, France

Biography

Andy Nguyen (he/him, 2002-present) is a visual artist specializing in filmmaking and photography based in Toronto and Ho Chi Minh City. Born in a small town in Bourgogne, France and having lived in Hong Kong, then his home country of Vietnam most of his childhood, he moved to Canada in 2018. Currently a student at Ryerson University School of Image Arts, his documentary short "heroes" shot on 16mm was selected to be apart of the TIFF Next Wave Film Festival in 2021. "heroes" and his self-portrait film "it's a girl!" were also screened at Inside Out LGBT Film Festival 2021. His short “in case you don’t live forever” was shown in Gallery44’s OUTREACH Envision Youth Exhibition in Toronto. With a great love for all artistic mediums, his photography was published in Toronto Public Library’s Young Voices 2020 issue, and other magazines. As a trans person of Southeast Asian descent, Andy wishes to continue in creating more projects that reflect on gender and cultural identity.