About the Curators

Natalie Fleming is a PhD candidate in the American Studies program in the University at Buffalo's Transnational Studies Department. In 2012, she received her Master’s Degree in art history at Rutgers University. She currently works as an independent curator and educator based in New York City. She has curated numerous exhibitions, and, most recently, Three Acts, Three Scenes: Your Care, My Care, Careful Care with co-curator Conor Moynihan at Kunstraum Gallery, Brooklyn. From 2014 until 2017, she supervised the University at Buffalo Department of Art Gallery and Project Space. She has worked in several other museums and galleries, including the New-York Historical Society, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum and the Putnam History Museum. 

 

Van Tran Nguyen was born in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and holds a Bachelor of Arts and Sciences in Fine Arts and Biology and an MFA from the University at Buffalo. She is currently a PhD student in the Philosophy of Electronic Art at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. She has exhibited in many solo and group exhibitions throughout Western New York including Ill at Ease: Dis-ease in Art (2017, University at Buffalo), Shape of a Pocket (2017, Squeaky Wheel Film and Media Art Center) and Strange Agency (2017, Buffalo Arts Studio). 

 

In 2016, Tran Nguyen and Fleming curated the exhibition The Measure of All Things: Rethinking Humanism through Art at the University at Buffalo Department of Art Gallery.  In 2017, Tran Nguyen and Fleming opened their group exhibition Forging American: Art in the Workings of an Asian American Rust Belt at Big Orbit Project Space, CEPA Gallery, in Buffalo New York.