Tam Nguyen (b. 2000, he/they) is an artist, writer, researcher, and curator born and raised in the south end of Vietnam. Tam’s creative practice favors radical forms of knowledge embodiment by negating the gaps between text-making, artmaking, and scholarship. In 2023, Tam was the recipient of the Emerging Writers' Fellowship, powered by Southeast of Now (National University of Singapore Press), and an artist-in-residence at the NPAK international residency program where he participated in The 3rd Annual Festival of Installation Art: Flow, and organized their open studio An Equal Among Equals (Armenia). As of 2024, Tam will serve as a writer-in-resident at the Jan Michalski Foundation (Switzerland), and develop their research through ‘Art Writing and Publishing in Southeast Asia: Sustainable Ecosystems and Infrastructures’ - an “intensive” program that focuses on sustainable art and research cultures, organized by Afterall and Southeast of Now. As a writer, Tam’s works appeared in diaCRITICS, Heavy Feather Review, MAYDAY, sin cesar, Softblow, Queer Southeast Asia, Southeast of Now, etc, as well as being longlisted in several literary competitions including Harbor Review’s Editor Chapbook Prize, Seven Kitchens Press’ Rane Arroyo Chapbook Prize, and the 2021 Pushcart Prize in poetry. As a curator, Tam supported and curated several exhibitions namely Illuminated Curiosities (Nguyen Art Foundation, Vietnam, 2022) and Directory (The Wrong Biennale, 2023-24).Tam holds a Bachelor’s in Art and Media Studies from Fulbright University.