Artist's Biography

Nina Katchadourian was born in Stanford, California and grew up spending every summer on a small island in the Finnish archipelago, where she still spends part of each year. Her work exists in a wide variety of media including photography, sculpture, video and sound. Her work has been exhibited domestically and internationally at places such as PS1/MoMA, the Serpentine Gallery, New Langton Arts, Artists Space, SculptureCenter, and the Palais de Tokyo. In January 2006 the Turku Art Museum in Turku, Finland featured a solo show of works made in Finland, and in June 2006 the Tang Museum in Saratoga Springs exhibited a 10-year survey of her work and published an accompanying monograph entitled "All Forms of Attraction." The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego presented a solo show of recent video installation works in July 2008. Katchadourian is represented by Sara Meltzer gallery in New York and Catharine Clark gallery in San Francisco.

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Curator's Biography

Nayland Blake is an American artist who currently lives and works in New York.  He received his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and his BFA from Bard College.  He has exhibited in solo shows at Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (2008), Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco (2007), FRED, London (2006), and Rhodes + Mann Gallery, London (2003).  He has also been featured in group shows with the Puppet show, Institute of Contemporary Art (2008), NeoIntegrity, Derek Eller Gallery, New York (2007), and Into Me/Out of Me, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York in which he traveled to Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome (2006).