Pipo Nguyen-duy

Pipo Hieu Nguyen-duy (born 1962) is a fine art photographer, and a professor of Photography at Oberlin College.

Early life and education Pipo was born in Hue, Vietnam in 1962. 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.

Pipo graduated from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota in 1983 with a BA in Economics after which he moved to New York City.

He is represented by Sam Lee Gallery in Los Angeles, California.

Publications The inscrutable traveller: the photographs of Tseng Kwong Chi, University of New Mexico, 1998 A thousand deaths Pipo, University of New Mexico, 1993

Awards Pipo 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. In 2011, Pipo won a Guggenheim Fellowship in the field of photography.