A storyteller, Tammy Nguyen creates paintings, drawings, artist books, prints, and zines that explore the intersections between geopolitics, ecology, and lesser-known histories. Her traditional painting and drawing practice are enriched and complimented by her publishing practice, embodied through her imprint, Passenger Pigeon Press, which creates and distributes Martha’s Quarterly, a subscription of artist’s books and interdisciplinary collaborations. Throughout Nguyen’s work she has explored a range of topics and ideas, showing her long-term research on specific yet troubled histories with deep awareness on interconnectedness and transnational sensibility. At its core, Nguyen's collaborative, research-based practice is propositional, exploring ideas and conjectures for ways of looking at the past, examining the present, and imagining possible futures. Across her work, Nguyen addresses the question of how one sees and reads, both visually and linguistically, and she considers the idea of multiple narratives being told simultaneously, held together by the edges of her compositions or spines of her books.