Hương Ngô is an interdisciplinary artist and educator. She was born in Hong Kong and works between Santa Barbara, CA and Chicago, IL.

Ngô holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Art & Technology Studies (2004) and was a Whitney Independent Study Fellow (2011-2012). She was awarded the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Grant in Vietnam (2016) for work that has been described as "deftly and defiantly decolonial" by New City and "what intersectional feminist art looks like'' by the Chicago Tribune. Ngô's achievements also include being a CAC BOLT resident (2016), recipient of 3Arts and Next Level Awards (2018, 2020), Illinois Art Council Fellowship (2022), Camargo Core Fellowship (2018), Asian Cultural Council Fellowship (2024), and being featured in the Prague Biennial (2005) and Prospect.5 Triennial (2021).

She has exhibited her solo and collaborative work at numerous institutions including more recently: Fine Arts Center at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO (2024); MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (2023); Kemper Museum, Kansas City, MO (2022), CAC Cincinatti, OH (2021); Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL (2021); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (2020); The Factory Contemporary Art Centre, HCMC, VN (2020); Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL (2020); Phillips Collection, Washington DC (2019); MoMA, New York, NY (2018); Para Site, Hong Kong, SAR (2017); DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL (2017); Nhà Sàn Collective, Hanoi, VN (2016). Her collaboration with Hồng-Ân Trương is on long-term display at Chicago O'Hare's International Airport, and her work is part of the permanent collections of the MoMA, DePaul Art Museum, Smith College Museum of Art, and Walker Art Center, among others. Updated exhibition information available here.

She is currently a visiting lecturer at University of California Santa Barbara. She was recently an assistant professor of Contemporary Practices at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she helped to institute the school’s first department-wide anti-racism committee. While living in France, she organized a series of artist lectures, UJVF Rencontre, in collaboration with Liem Binh Luong Nguyen and in cooperation with WoMA Paris. Information and recordings can be found here.

Hương Ngô’s name is set in Đanh Đá outline, part of the Đanh Đá typeface family created in collaboration with Giang Nguyen. Read more here.