Loan Nguyen lives and works in Lausanne, Switzerland. She studied the School of Applied Arts in Vevey, where she graduated in 2000. After taking part in different group shows all around Europe, she had her first show at the Galerie Esther Woerdehoff in Paris in 2003, which is now representing her. Since 2003, her work was shown at the Wagner & Partner Gallery in Berlin, the Duncan Miller Gallery in Los Angeles, and at the Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland.