In Conversation at the Venice Biennale: YCBA Director Martina Droth & Exhibiting Artist Tammy Nguyen, Yale MFA 2013
Join Yale Center for British Art Director Martina Droth and exhibiting artist Tammy Nguyen, Yale MFA 2013, for a conversation and reception at the 2026 Venice Biennale, at the Hotel Monaco & Grand Canal in Venice, Thursday, May 7.
About this program
Join the Yale Center for British Art, the Yale School of Art, the Yale Alumni Art League, and the Yale Alumni Association for a reception and talk in celebration of the Yale artists participating in the 61st Venice Biennale.
Exhibiting artist Tammy Nguyen, Yale MFA 2013, and YCBA Director Martina Droth will be in conversation about Nguyen's work in the Biennale exhibition In Minor Keys.
The conversation will take place at the Hotel Monaco & Grand Canal in Venice on Thursday, May 7, 4-6 pm CET. The conversation will start at 4 pm, followed by a reception at 5 pm.
Venice Biennale 2026 Map
Click here to view a map of the exhibitions and installations at the 2026 Venice Biennale, with Yale artists highlighted.
About Tammy Nguyen
Tammy Nguyen (b. 1984, San Francisco; based in Easton, Connecticut) is a multimedia artist whose practice encompasses painting, drawing, printmaking, and book making. Nguyen received a BFA from Cooper Union in 2007 and a Fulbright scholarship to study lacquer painting in Vietnam in 2008. Since earning her MFA from Yale in 2013, Nguyen has received numerous awards and had work exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, the Sarasota Art Museum, MOMA PS1, Smack Mellon, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, MIT Library, and the MOMA Library, among many others. She is now a professor at Wesleyan University with representation by Lehmann Maupin.
About Martina Droth
Martina Droth is the Paul Mellon Director of the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven. She is a Trustee of the Paul Mellon Centre, and former Chair of the Association of Research Institutes in Art History (2016–2022). As an art historian and curator, she is known for her work on sculpture and British art and has curated and published widely. Her exhibitions include Bill Brandt | Henry Moore (2020), shortlisted for the Paris Photo/Aperture Award, and Things of Beauty Growing (2017). Most recently she curated the first North American museum exhibition of Tracey Emin’s paintings and a major retrospective of Hew Locke.
