Plant #30 by Nina Katchadourian

Nina Katchadourian, Plant #30, 2021, ceramic bowl, cardboard toilet paper tubes, synthetic fur, felt, wooden forks, paint, ping pong ball, glass-head pins, salt, 10-1/4" × 5-1/8" × 5-1/8" (26 cm × 13 cm × 13 cm) © Nina Katchadourian

Nina Katchadourian

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b. 1968, Stanford, California

Nina Katchadourian is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans video, performance, sound, sculpture, photography, and public projects.

Her video Accent Elimination was included at the 56th Venice Biennial in 2015 as part of the Armenian pavilion, which won the Golden Lion for Best National Participation. A solo museum survey of her work entitled Curiouser opened at The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin in 2017 before traveling to the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, California (2017–18), and Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Provo, Utah (2018). An accompanying monograph, also entitled Curiouser, is available from Tower Books. Since then, the artist has held solo exhibitions at Die Raum, Berlin (2018); Pace Gallery, New York (2021), Hong Kong (2021), and East Hampton (2022); Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco (2021), Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio (2021–22); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York (2023); and The National Nordic Museum, Seattle, Washington (2025), among others. Her solo exhibition, Nina Katchadourian: Fake Plants and Other Curiosities, will be on view at The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, New York, from October 25, 2025, until March 8, 2026. Group exhibitions including her work have been presented at institutions and galleries such as P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York (2000); Serpentine Gallery, London (2000); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2007); Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (2007); Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California (2009); Istanbul Modern (2011); Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand (2011); Turner Contemporary, Margate, England (2013); de Appel Museum, Amsterdam (2013); Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams (2008, 2016); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York (2016); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2017); Künstlerhaus Bremen, Germany (2022); and The Brooklyn Museum, New York (2004, 2024), among others. Her video Accent Elimination (2005) was included at the 56th Venice Biennial in the Armenian pavilion in 2015, which won the Golden Lion for Best National Participation.

In 2016, Katchadourian created Dust Gathering, an audio tour on the subject of dust, for The Museum of Modern Art, New York, as part of their program entitled “Artists Experiment.” The same year, Katchadourian completed a commission entitled Floater Theater for The Exploratorium in San Francisco, which is permanently on view. Her public artwork Monument to the Unelected has been shown across the United States in every presidential election cycle since 2008 at seventeen different venues to date. Katchadourian’s work is held in public and private collections worldwide, including The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin; The Brooklyn Museum, New York; The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Morgan Library & Museum, New York; Saatchi Collection, London, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others. She has been awarded grants and received awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Anonymous Was a Woman Foundation, the Tiffany Foundation, the American-Scandinavian Foundation, Grönqvistska Foundation, and the Nancy Graves Foundation. Katchadourian lives and works in Brooklyn and Berlin, and she is a Clinical Professor on the faculty of New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. She is represented by Catharine Clark Gallery and Pace Gallery.

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Nina Katchadourian, Giant S (Medium), 2019, C-print, 24" × 19" (61 cm × 48.3 cm), Edition of 8 + 2 APs © Nina Katchadourian

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Nina Katchadourian, This is My Great Place, 2015, C-print, 15-1/2" × 19" (39.4 cm × 48.3 cm), Edition of 8 + 2 APs © Nina Katchadourian