Tin Nguyen, Australia

AGI member since 2016

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Tin Nguyen is one-half of artist duo Tin & Ed.

Tin & Ed are New York-based artists whose work explores the entanglement of life across biological, geological, and cosmic systems. Through speculative world building, they reveal connections that transcend human time, spatial boundaries, and sensory thresholds. Their practice spans sculpture, immersive installation, and interactive media, creating multisensory environments that invite audiences to shift perspective and inhabit the world beyond the limits of human perception. Technology serves not as spectacle but as a perceptual tool that makes the invisible felt and the distant intimately present.

Tin & Ed are alumni and mentors of NEW INC, the New Museum’s art and technology incubator. They have exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, Rockefeller Center, and Pioneer Works in New York; the Getty Museum in Los Angeles; the Barbican Centre in London; the ArtScience Museum in Singapore; and the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney. Their collaborators include Apple, Hermès and Nike. They have also lectured and led workshops at Yale School of Art, the Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts, and California College of the Arts.

Design work by Tin Nguyen


    Tin Nguyen, Australia (2016)

    Tin Nguyen is one-half of artist duo Tin & Ed. Tin & Ed are New York-based artists whose work explores the entanglement of life across biological, geological, and cosmic systems...

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    Tin Nguyen, Australia (2016)

    Tin Nguyen is one-half of artist duo Tin & Ed.

    Tin & Ed are New York-based artists whose work explores the entanglement of life across biological, geological, and cosmic systems. Through speculative world building, they reveal connections that transcend human time, spatial boundaries, and sensory thresholds. Their practice spans sculpture, immersive installation, and interactive media, creating multisensory environments that invite audiences to shift perspective and inhabit the world beyond the limits of human perception. Technology serves not as spectacle but as a perceptual tool that makes the invisible felt and the distant intimately present.

    Tin & Ed are alumni and mentors of NEW INC, the New Museum’s art and technology incubator. They have exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, Rockefeller Center, and Pioneer Works in New York; the Getty Museum in Los Angeles; the Barbican Centre in London; the ArtScience Museum in Singapore; and the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney. Their collaborators include Apple, Hermès and Nike. They have also lectured and led workshops at Yale School of Art, the Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts, and California College of the Arts.

    Publications

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    Fully Booked vol.2

    (2013)

    Gestalten, Berlin

    Viscomm

    (2012)

    Cambridge University Press, London

    Where They Create

    (2011)

    • Paul Barbera

    FRAME Publishing, Amsterdam

    Speak Up!

    (2011)

    iDN, Hong Kong

    New illustrations with Type

    (2010)

    Batsford, London

    Small Studios

    (2009)

    Hesign, Shanghai/BErlin

    Design Nation

    (2005)

    Ripe off the Press, Melbourne

    Exhibitions

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    Another World

    2025

    The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York

    An interactive augmented reality artwork originally launched at the Getty Museum and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, was later expanded to incorporate a large-scale physical installation commissioned by The Museum of Modern Art for its Another World: Family Festival.

    We Are Made of Time

    2024

    Moynihan Train Hall, Penn Station, New York

    We Are Made of Time, an ambitious video installation throughout Moynihan train hall by Tin & Ed, performs a temporal magic trick, compressing 4.5 billion years of Earth’s geological change into a symphonic moment.

    Deep Field

    2023

    Getty Musuem, Los Angeles

    An interactive artwork across multiple sites including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Getty Museum and ArtScience Museum.

    Melbourne NOW

    2013

    National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

    Sound + Vision (Samsung)

    2016

    Sydney Opera House, Sydney

    Agencies

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    Awards

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    • 2014

    Best Cover Art, ARIA Award, 2014 (Australian Record Industry Association)
    • 2009

    Visual Communication Award, Qantas Spirit of Youth Award, 2009

    Other Professional Activities

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    • OFFF Festival, Talk, Barcelona

      2025 – present

    • Yale School of Art, Workshop & Guest Lecture, New Haven

      2025 – present

    • Stevens Institue of Technology, Workshop

      2025 – present

    • California College of the Arts, Graduate Centre, San Francisco, Guest Lecture

      2016 – present

    • Semi Permanent, Wellington NZ (Lecture)

      2015 – present

    • Mpavlion Workshop

      2015 – 2016

    • The Centre for Contemporary Photography, Artist Talk

      2015 – present

    • National Gallery of Victoria, Workshop

      2014 – present

    • Semi Permanent, Sydney, Perth (Lecture)

      2010 – present

    • AGDA Talks, Australia

      2008 – 2014

    • RMIT University, Guest Lectures

      2005 – 2015

    • Monash University, Guest Lectures

      2005 – 2016