Mai Nguyễn-Long

Mai Nguyễn-Long is an artist, academic and storyteller whose multicultural upbringing informs the tapestry of narratives that live through her work. Born in Tasmania to a Vietnamese father and Australian mother, Nguyễn-Long’s formative years were spent living in Papua New Guinea as well as the Philippines. As an adult, Mai Nguyen-Long has lived in Australia and China, however, it was her pilgrimage to Vietnam that has had the most profound influence on the aesthetic and theoretical direction of her art.

Since the early 2000’s, Nguyễn-Long’s practice has seen many iterations, consistent in narrative but materially diverse. Her work endeavours to crystallise her own identity, interrogating her migrations and acknowledging what was left behind. In 2017 Nguyễn-Long made her first Vomit Girl from clay, a moment that would direct the next six years of her art and education.

The story of Vomit Girl is one of family history and belonging, and is the subject of her PhD, recently acquired from the University of Wollongong. Vomit Girl is a symbol of what has been erased and speaks broadly to diasporic trauma following the atrocities of the Vietnam War. Through her Vomit Girl installations, Mai Nguyễn-Long collides cultural artefacts and personal histories, borrowing from Vietnamese rural aesthetics knows as mộc mạc. Mai Nguyễn-Long’s armies of Vomit Girl sculptures have make-believe conversations and are artistic devices that attempt to mend what feels irreparably broken.

The success of Mai Nguyễn-Long’s practice is firmly attributed to her universal vision, which reconciles personal loss whilst supplying her audience with agency to ponder what may be missing for themselves.

Mai Nguyễn-Long
Blue and White Dobakapi 1, 2024
55 x 26 x 32 cm
$3,300
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Blue and White Dobakapi 2, 2024
54.5 x 28 x 23 cm
$3,300
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Doba – Vomit Girl: Vigit (Doba Pollop), 2022
18 x 18 x 17 cm
SOLD
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Dobakapi Calendrical AWAD314, 2024
51 x 34 x 28 cm
$3,300
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Vigit Moc Mac (Ward 2), 2022
44 x 19.5 x 14 cm
$2,800
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Urn, Charred, Three Toads (AWAD303), 2024
23 x 23 x 22 cm
SOLD
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Vomit Girl: Vigit (Blue Pinch), 2022
5 x 11 x 9 cm
$500
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Vigit (Gloss Ward 2), 2023
53.5 x 20 x 18 cm
$3,300
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Vigit Hefeco 7 (One Arm), 2023
56 x 29 x 23 cm
$3,300
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Vigit Hefeco 2, 2023
32 x 18 x 12 cm
$2,800
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Vigit Hefeco 5, 2023
58 x 32 x 22 cm
SOLD
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Vigit Hefeco 6, 2023
46 x 26 x 19 cm
$2,800
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Vomit Girl: Vigit (Haunted Fairy), 2017-2022
82 x 26 x 24 cm
SOLD
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Vigit Moc Mac (Gloss Ward 1), 2022
51.5 x 19.5 x 18 cm
$3,300
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Vomit Girl: Vigit (Screaming Chicken), 2017-2022
62.5 x 25 x 18 cm
SOLD
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Dobakapi 2, 2023
46 x 22 x 22 cm
$2,800
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Vomit Girl: Vigit (Fish Morph), 2017-2022
74 x 26 x 26 cm
SOLD
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Vigit (Flower Hand)
10 x 13 x 13 cm
$500
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Worana (Blue), 2023
11 x 8 x 8 cm
$500
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Foyot Cat Flux, 2023
35 x 18 x 19 cm
$2,100
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Vigit Moc Mac (Face on Orange Dish), 2022
11 x 12.5 x 1 cm
$350
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Vigit (Spirit Bird)
8 x 2.5 x 2.5 cm
$900
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Vomit Girl: Vigit (Worana 1), 2017-2022
18 x 16 x 17 cm
$900
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Vigit (Gloss Ward 3), 2023
42.5 x 15 x 13.5 cm
$2,800
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Possum Cat, 2023
38 x 20 x 14 cm
$2,100
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Doba With Arms, 2023
23.5 x 27 x 21 cm
$1,650
Available artworks
Mai Nguyễn-Long
Dobakapi Calendrical AWAD314, 2024
51 x 34 x 28 cm
$3,300
Mai Nguyễn-Long
Vomit Girl: Vigit (Blue Pinch), 2022
5 x 11 x 9 cm
$500
Mai Nguyễn-Long
Foyot Cat Flux, 2023
35 x 18 x 19 cm
$2,100
Mai Nguyễn-Long
Vigit Hefeco 4 (with Worana Hat and Pocket Mini), 2023
75 x 32 x 22 cm
$4,500
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Vigit Hefeco 3 (Grenade Hat), 2023
90 x 23 x 22 cm
$5,500
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Worana (Blue), 2023
11 x 8 x 8 cm
$500
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Doba (Scratched), 2023
12.5 x 8.5 x 7.5 cm
$900
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Doba With Arms, 2023
23.5 x 27 x 21 cm
$1,650
Mai Nguyễn-Long
Vigit Hefeco 7 (One Arm), 2023
56 x 29 x 23 cm
$3,300
Mai Nguyễn-Long
Kôgábịnô Cluster 02, 2022-2023
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Kôgábịnô Cluster 04, 2022-2023
$4,350
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Foyot Cat (2 Parts), 2023
23 x 23 x 11.5 cm
$1,650
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Tile Trio (Bird, Black and White, White), 2023
$1,200
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Vigit Hefeco 6, 2023
46 x 26 x 19 cm
$2,800
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Foyot Cat (In Three parts), 2023
19.5 x 8.5 x 9.5 cm
$900
Mai Nguyễn-Long
Vigit Moc Mac (Face on Orange Dish), 2022
11 x 12.5 x 1 cm
$350
Mai Nguyễn-Long
Vigit (Flower Hand)
10 x 13 x 13 cm
$500
Mai Nguyễn-Long
Vigit (Spirit Bird)
8 x 2.5 x 2.5 cm
$900
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Possum Cat, 2023
38 x 20 x 14 cm
$2,100
Mai Nguyễn-Long
Vomit Girl: Vigit (Worana 1), 2017-2022
18 x 16 x 17 cm
$900
Mai Nguyễn-Long
Vigit Hefeco 2, 2023
32 x 18 x 12 cm
$2,800
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Vigit (Gloss Ward 2), 2023
53.5 x 20 x 18 cm
$3,300
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Dobakapi 2, 2023
46 x 22 x 22 cm
$2,800
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Vigit Moc Mac (Orange Black Urn), 2022
4.5 x 15 x 1 cm
$500
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