Confluence: Latest Exhibition At the Branch Museum of Design

08.2025

Confluence, recent works by Kenny Nguyen, a Vietnamese-American artist, will be on display from September 10 through December 10 at The Branch Museum of Design.

Kenny grew up on a coconut farm in a rural area near the Mekong Delta in southern Vietnam. He worked as a fashion designer in his native country, and then in 2010 moved to the United States to join his family here. He gradually moved from fashion design to fine arts, earning a BFA in painting from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. 

Drawing from his experience with textiles, Kenny creates three-dimensional works out of hand-cut silk—a cultural nod to the country of his birth. The title of this exhibition refers to the joining of rivers like those that make up the delta region where Kenny grew up. It’s at the point where the rivers meet and they mix their waters and alter the course of their flow and even change the land itself. That seems to be what intrigues Kenny and is evident in this work. It is an artistic trope.

His works can be stretched flat like a canvas or gently draped, folded and creased into animated structures. Kenny’s creations have been seen in gallery spaces the wide world over. From the Sejong Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea, to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Jacksonville, Florida.

And now, you can see it right here in Richmond at The Branch.

The Branch Museum of Design

2501 Monument Avenue

Richmond, VA 23220

(804)655-6055