Bao Nghi Ngo is a self-taught, first-generation Asian American artist based in Dallas, Texas. Working primarily with alternative photographic processes, Ngo explores the fragile terrain of memory, identity, and healing. Her practice often merges cyanotype, weaving, and mixed-media experimentation to investigate how images can fracture, fade, and reassemble over time.

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Ngo holds a Bachelor of Arts in Biochemistry from the University of North Texas, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude as a Distinguished Honors College Scholar. Her undergraduate thesis, Lost in Time: An Arts-Based Autoethnographic Inquiry into Traumatic Brain Injuries, stemmed from her own experience with a brain injury — a formative event that continues to inform her art. Through slow, tactile processes, she transforms the act of remembering into a study of resilience and care.

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Her work has been exhibited across Texas, including in ART214 Biennial Juried Exhibition through the City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture, The 9th Annual Texas Juried Exhibition at Artspace111, Colorplay at the Dallas Center for Photography, Apophenia at ICOSA Collective, and Ginger Roots at 400h Gallery.

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Ngo is currently an Artist in Residence at The Cedars Union (Cohort V) and is participating in the 2nd Annual Cedars Union Printmaking Micro-Residency in 2025, followed by the AiR: Underground residency at Arts Mission Oak Cliff in 2026.

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Through her practice, Ngo turns vulnerability into language, creating spaces where art and science, body and memory, coexist in quiet dialogue.