Pipo Nguyen-duy: key obituary facts
Is Pipo Nguyen-duy dead? Yes. Pipo Nguyen-duy died on October 28, 2026, at age 63.
Cause of death: Pipo Nguyen-duy's cause of death has not been publicly confirmed.
What was Pipo Nguyen-duy known for?
He was an American photographer.
More about Pipo Nguyen-duy
Born: 1 January 1962.
Place of birth: Huế.
Gender: male.
Nationality: United States, Vietnam.
Education: University of New Mexico, Carleton College.
Employer: Oberlin College.
Awards: Guggenheim Fellowship.
Also known as: Pipo Hieu Nguyen-duy.
Known for: Photography.
Pipo Nguyen-duy, a Vietnamese fine art photographer and professor of Photography at Oberlin College, died October 28, 2026, aged 63.
Born Nguyễn Duy Hiếu in Hue, Vietnam, in 1962, he was also known as Pipo Hieu Nguyen-duy. His early years in Vietnam included competitive sport: as a teenager, he competed on the Vietnamese national table tennis team.
In 1975, at 13, he left Vietnam for the United States as a boat person, beginning a life in the country where he later studied and taught. Nguyen-duy attended Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, graduating in 1983 with a bachelor’s degree in economics. After graduation, he moved to New York City before pursuing graduate study in photography at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. He earned a Master of Arts in Photography in 1992 and a Master of Fine Arts in 1995. His education was followed by work as a fine art photographer and a professorship in Photography at Oberlin College. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship and held Vietnamese and U.S. nationality.