2019

Matijcio, Steven. Julien Nguyen Returns. Cincinnati: Contemporary Arts Center, 2019.

One hundred drawings. New York: Matthew Marks Gallery, 2019.

2018

Borland, Jennifer, Hardy Hill, and Julien Nguyen. Julien Nguyen: Ex Forti Dulcedo. London: Stuart Shave Modern Art, 2018.

2017

Locks, Mia, Christopher Y. Lew, Gean Moreno, Scott Rothkopf, Negar Azimi, and Ally Nash. Whitney Biennial 2017. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2017.

2015

Parked Like Serious Oysters. Frankfurt: Museum für Moderne Kunst, 2015.

2013

Antin, Eleanor, and Denis Linehan. Lost Boys: The Territories of Youth. Cork, Ireland: Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork, 2013.

2023

Diehl, Travis. “The Ultracontemporaries.” Spike 76, Summer 2023, pp. 47–53.

2022

Nguyen, Julien. “One Place After Another: Albrecht Dürer.” Artforum 60, no. 6, February 2022, pp. 140–45.

2021

Moffitt, Evan. “Julien Nguyen’s Necrophiliac Twinks.” Frieze, no. 222, October 2021, pp. 198–99.

Dwyer, Kate. “Drawn to 2 Worlds.” The New York Times, August 22, 2021, p. ST7.

Chun, Emily. “Julien Nguyen: Pictures of the Floating World.” The Brooklyn Rail, July/August 2021 (online).

Nguyen, Julien, and Travis Diehl. “Julien Nguyen.” Artforum, July 20, 2021 (online).

Van Eeckhoutte, Louis-Philippe. “Julien Nguyen: Pictures of the Floating World.” Interview, June 9, 2021.

Fateman, Johanna. “Julien Nguyen.” The New Yorker, July 5, 2021, p. 8.

Samms, Gianna, and Julien Nguyen. “Julien Nguyen.” TheGuide.Art, June 27, 2021 (online).

2020

Belevan, Mónica. “New Pictures for the Old Ceremony: Julien Nguyen’s Floating World.” Mousse Magazine, no. 73, Fall 2020, pp. 68–81.

Hess, Liam. “Meet Julien Nguyen, the Renaissance-Inspired Painter Behind This Season’s Buzziest Print.” Vogue, September 29, 2020 (online).

2019

Hatfield, Zack. “Julien Nguyen.” Artforum 57, no. 7, March 2019, pp. 208–11.

Kissick, Dean. “Julien Nguyen Models the 21st Century Master.” Cultured Magazine, November 26, 2019.

2018

Chu, Mimi. “Julien Nguyen.” Frieze, no. 197, September 2018, pp. 182–83.

Jones, Eliel. “Julien Nguyen.” Artforum, June 14, 2018 (online).

Kissick, Dean. “The Downward Spiral: The Figure Cannot Hold.” Spike Art Magazine, October 10, 2018.

Melendez, Franklin. “Julien Nguyen.” Kaleidoscope, no. 33, Fall 2018/Winter 2019.

2016

Duncan, Thomas. “Depths Plumbed / Julien Nguyen.” Flash Art, September 16, 2016 (online).

Norton, Scott. “Julien Nguyen: All Too Human.” Leap, no. 37, March 2016, pp. 72–73.