About
Linh VH Nguyen is a Vietnamese-Canadian visual artist and facilitator based in Ottawa, working on the unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabe Nation. Her practice explores how memory, identity, and emotion are carried through the body and material form, with a focus on personal and intergenerational experience.
Working across digital and analogue photographic processes, Nguyen draws from family archives, organic remnants, and found materials to explore how images and objects hold, transform, and transmit meaning over time. Her studio practice is informed by movement-based ways of knowing, biological systems, and psychological frameworks that shape how forms emerge, adapt, and relate to one another. Inspired by natural algorithms, embodied observation, and intuitive reconstruction, her work often unfolds through accumulation, layering, and reconfiguration, reflecting on fragmentation, attachment, and the ways the past continues to seep into the present.
Alongside her studio practice, Nguyen facilitates hands-on and concept-driven cyanotype workshops that invite participants into material experimentation, intuitive decision-making, and personal storytelling through image-making. Her facilitation practice emphasizes process, accessibility, and the unique connections that emerge through collective making.
Her work has been presented at Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, Toronto Outdoor Art Fair, Ottawa Art Gallery, Etobicoke Civic Centre Art Gallery, Digital Arts Resource Centre, and Axeneo7. Her work is held in public and private collections, including the City of Ottawa collection. She acknowledges the support of the City of Ottawa, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Canada Council for the Arts.
