The Island

Tuan Andrew Nguyen, The Island, 2017, single-channel video, color, 5.1 surround sound; 42:00 minutes, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Asian Pacific American Initiative Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, 2022.51, © 2022, Tuan Andrew Nguyen

Artwork Details

Title
The Island
Date
2017
Copyright
© 2022, Tuan Andrew Nguyen
Credit Line
Museum purchase through the Asian Pacific American Initiative Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center
Mediums
Mediums Description
single-channel video, color, 5.1 surround sound; 42:00 minutes
Classifications
Highlights
Subjects
  • Figure
  • Landscape — island
Object Number
2022.51

Works by this artist (2 items)

Frederic Edwin Church, Aurora Borealis, 1865, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Eleanor Blodgett, 1911.4.1
Aurora Borealis
Date1865
oil on canvas
On view
Frederic Edwin Church, Cotopaxi, 1855, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Frank R. McCoy, 1965.12
Cotopaxi
Date1855
oil on canvas
On view

Exhibitions

Media - 2022.51 - SAAM-2022.51_3 - 146374
Tuan Andrew Nguyen: The Island
August 16, 2024June 8, 2025
This exhibition of the Tuan Andrew Nguyen's film, The Island, is shown for the first time with Bidong Spirit I, a sculpted headdress that appears in the film.

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William Holbrook Beard, The Runaway Match, 1877, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase, 1977.55
The Runaway Match
Date1877
oil on canvas
Not on view
John Henry Twachtman, Figure in Sunlight (Artist's Wife), ca. 1890-1900, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of John Gellatly, 1929.6.137
Figure in Sunlight (Artist’s Wife)
Dateca. 1890-1900
oil on canvas
On view
Unidentified (Italian), Saint, 19th century, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Laura Dreyfus Barney and Natalie Clifford Barney in memory of their mother, Alice Pike Barney, 1952.13.157
Saint
Artist
Unidentified (Italian)
Date19th century
oil on canvas
Not on view