Irina Nakhova

Irina Nakhova
Born 1955 (1955)
Education Graphic Design Department of the Moscow Institute of Polygraphy
Known for Sculpture, installation art, paintings, multimedia
Movement Moscow Conceptualists, Soviet Nonconformist Art, Feminist art

Irina Nakhova (born 1955, in Moscow) is a Russian artist. She graduated from the Graphic Design Department of the Moscow Institute of Polygraphy. She was a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR from 1986 to 1989[1][2] and contributed to the development of Moscow Conceptualism.[3] Nakhova represented Russia at the 2015 Venice Biennial.[4][5] She is represented by the Nailya Alexander Gallery in New York City.[6] The artist currently lives in Russia and the United States state of New Jersey (where she has taught at Ramapo College).[7]

Work

Major exhibitions

2015: Irina Nakhova's The Green Pavillion Represented Russia at the 2015 Venice Biennale

2011: Rooms, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow RU[8]

2005: Artificial Shrubbery, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow RU

2003: When Will You Be Home?, Wooster College Art Museum, Wooster, OH US

2003: Rehearsal, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow RU

1990: Momentum Mortis, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY

Irina Nakhova participated in many group exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world; including Post Pop: East Meets West (Saatchi Gallery, London, 2014);[9] Irina Nakhova and Pavel Pepperstein: Moscow Partisan Conceptualism (Orel Art UK, London, 2010); Moscow Installation (Künstlerhaus, Kalrsruhe, Germany, 2006); Berlin–Moscow / Moscow–Berlin, 1950–2000 (Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, and State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, 2003–04); Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s–1980s (Queens Museum, New York, 1999); Laughter Ten Years After (which travelled to six museums and galleries in the United States and Canada, 1995); After Perestroika: Kitchenmaids or Stateswomen (Centre international d’art contemporain de Montréal, 1993); The Work of Art in the Age of Perestroika (Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, 1990); and Iskunstvo: Moscow– Berlin (Bahnhof Westend, West Berlin, 1988).

Public collections

The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey

National Centre For Contemporary Arts, Moscow

Awards and nominations

2013 Kandinsky Prize in the category “Project of the Year.”

References

  1. ↑ "2015 — artist — Irina Nakhova". Russian Pavilion. Retrieved 2015-11-16.
  2. ↑ "Irina Nakhova". artsy.net.
  3. ↑ "The Russian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale". Artsy. 4 May 2015.
  4. ↑ Kinberger, Charlotte (April 3, 2014). "Irina Nakhova to Represent Russia in 2015 Venice Biennale". Observer.
  5. ↑ "Venice Art Biennale 2015 Russia-Switzerland-Germany". Inexhibit - art design architecture by museums & exhibitions.
  6. ↑ "Irina Nakhova - Nailya Alexander Gallery". nailyaalexandergallery.com.
  7. ↑ "Irina Nakhova at Ramapo College of New Jersey - RateMyProfessors.com". ratemyprofessors.com.
  8. ↑ "Rooms". www.mmoma.ru. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  9. ↑ Gallery, Saatchi. "Post Pop". www.saatchigallery.com. Retrieved 2016-03-06.

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