Nina Katchadourian was born in 1968 in Stanford, California and currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany and Brooklyn, New York. She is an interdisciplinary artist whose work includes video, performance, sound, sculpture, photography, and public projects. Accent Elimination, a six-channel video, was included in the 2015 Venice Biennale as part of the Armenian pavilion, which won the Golden Lion for Best National Participation. There are three monographic publications of Katchadourian’s work that are published internationally; Sorted Books, published by Chronicle Books in 2013; Curiouser, published by University of Texas Press in 2017; and Opener 11: Nina Katchadourian — All Forms of Attraction, published by The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College.
Since her first monographic exhibition at The Tang Museum in 2005, Katchadourian has had several solo museum exhibits. In 2017, a traveling survey exhibition of her work titled Curiouser opened at the Blanton Museum in Austin, Texas, with an accompanying catalogue. Curiouser traveled to the Brigham Young Museum of Art in Provo, UT in 2018 and the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University in 2017. In 2020, Catharine Clark Gallery and Pace Gallery co-presented Katchadourian’s major public installation Monument to the Unelected, which was installed at both galleries in San Francisco and New York and at multiple museum and non-profit venues across the United States. Her exhibition To Feel Something That Was Not of Our World was presented at Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco; Pace Gallery, London; and the Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio (2021 - 2022).
Katchadourian has received grants and awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Anonymous Was a Woman Foundation, the Tiffany Foundation, the American-Scandinavian Foundation, and the Nancy Graves Foundation. Her work is in public collections including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York; the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas; the Morgan Library and Museum, New York, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California, among others.
Katchadourian is a Professor at the New York University Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Her career has been represented by Catharine Clark Gallery since 1999. Since 2020, she has been co-represented by Pace Gallery and Catharine Clark Gallery.
