Nina Katchadourian

Bio

Nina Katchadourian is known for her often playful conceptual works that make use of photography, sculpture, video, sound, and public spaces. Her video “Accent Elimination,” in which she worked with a speech improvement coach in order to “neutralize” her parents’ accents , was included in Armenian pavilion at the 2015 Venice Biennale. In 2016, she created Dust Gathering, an audio tour about dust, for the Museum of Modern Art. The ongoing project, Seat Assignment, consists of photographs, video, and sound works, all made during airline flights using only a camera phone. A solo survey of her work entitled Curiouser is currently on view at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, TX. It will travel to the Cantor Center at Stanford University in September 2017 and to the Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU in Richmond, VA in April 2018. She’s an associate professor on the faculty of NYU Gallatin.