Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJĢ016 Russian Artists: Participants of the Venice Biennale, Manege Central Exhibition Hall, MoscowĢ015 Post Pop: East Meets West, Saatchi Gallery, LondonĢ011 Special guest of the 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary ArtĢ009 History of Russian Video Art. Tate Modern, LondonĢ019 There Is a Beginning at the End: the Secret Tintoretto Fraternity, Chiesa di San FantinĢ016 Thinking Pictures: Moscow Conceptual Art in the Dodge Collection. Irina Nakhova lives and works in the United States and Russia.Ģ019 Room 4 in Performer and Participant. She has taught contemporary art at Wayne State University, Carnegie Mellon University, Princeton University, and the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg, among other institutions. Her work can be found in private collections and museum collections such as Tate Modern, London The Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Soviet Nonconformist Art, New Brunswick The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow and the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Nakhova’s work has been shown in over thirty solo exhibitions and numerous major group exhibitions worldwide. In this sense, Nakhova’s green-red room is a postmodern (Jamesonian) hybrid of color-form and color-text in which one can locate the traces and distortions of society as a whole.” In the catalogue for The Green Pavilion, curator Margarita Tupitsyn writes of Nakhova’s green-red room, “The abstract composition comes from Nakhova’s earlier canvas Primary Colors 2 (2003), imbued with the Russian avant-garde’s reductive color theories…and embrace of what Malevich termed ‘a new color realism.’ Applied mechanically, the latter transgresses the boundaries of the canvas to operate in literal space. In 2015, she was chosen as the first female artist to represent Russia in its pavilion at the Venice Biennale, with an installation, The Green Pavilion, that The Guardian called "s impact is devastatingly direct." Nakhova received the prestigious Kandinsky Prize for “Project of the Year” in 2013, one of the highest honors in contemporary Russian art. Her first monograph, Irina Nakhova: Works 1973-2004, was co-published in 2004 by the Salzburg International Summer Academy, Austria, and the National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow. Nakhova was a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR from 1986 to 1989. Significance in a way that gives insight to both individual and social life, as I still believe that art is power." "I am interested in art that gives experiences, that is powerful and eye-opening and that has significance. "One of my largest goals is to create spaces for difference experiences, physical and intellectual, that do not exist otherwise as spaces," Nakhova said in an interview with New York Arts Magazine. She received international recognition as a young artist for Rooms (1983-1987), the first “total installation” in Russian art, located in the Moscow apartment where she still lives today.Īn installation artist and academically trained painter, Nakhova combines painting, sculpture, and new media into interactive installations and environments that engage viewers as co-creators of conceptual mindscapes. 1955, Moscow) graduated from the Graphic Design Department of the Moscow Institute of Polygraphy in 1978, where she studied with a generation of Russian nonconformist artists now known as the Moscow Conceptual School.
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