Born in Los Angeles, California
Lives and works in Los Angeles
Education:
2006 MFA, University of California, Irvine
1997 BFA, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles
Solo Exhibitions:
2010 Simon Preston, New York (forthcoming)
2008 Mad Amour, Simon Preston, New York (with Kara Tanaka)
2006 Disruptions, 4F Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Disruptions, Queens Nails Annex, San Francisco, CA
Embryonic Loop (collaboration w/ Ruben Ochoa), LAX>
Moving Equilibrium, a site-specific performance, Irvine, CA
2005 FANGORIA, a site-specific sculpture, Irvine, CA
2004 Rigor Motors, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
2002 Pretty in a Kimono, Class C, Los Angeles, CA
Group Exhibitions:
2009 Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles, CAInteriority Complex, Artist curated Projects, Los
Angeles, CA
Drama of the Gifted Child, Armory Center for the Arts,
Pasadena, CA
Video Journeys, Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CA
This is Killing Me, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
Mixed Signals. Artists Consider Masculinity in Sports,
touring exhibition curated by ICI, Cranbrook Art Museum,
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, Center for Art, Design and
Visual Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore.
2008 California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
LA25, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, CA
The Whole World Is Watching, Glendale College, Glendale, CA
Et in Arcadia Ego, Estacion Tijuana, Tijuana, MEX
Phantom Sightings, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get, What You Don't See (Is Better Yet) Five Thirty Three, Los Angeles, CA
Nina in Position, Artists Space, New York, NY
2007 LA 25, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flomm LLP, Los Angeles, CA
The Pyramid Show, Monte Vista Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Mini Wrong Gallery, LAX><ART, Los Angeles, CA
Q&A Royale, Queens Nails Annex, San Francisco, CA
Real, Imagined, Sixteen:One , Santa Monica, CA
2006 November, Harris Lieberman, curated by Jeffrey Uslip, New York, NY
One Shot: 100><100, LAX><ART, Los Angeles, CA
Agente Once, Acuna Hansen, Los Angeles, CA
News Stand Project, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Speakeasy, Upspace, Los Angeles, CA
Drive Time, Wignall Museum, Rancho Cucamonga, CA
Supersonic, LA Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
Very Early Pictures, Luckman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Journal of Aesthetics & Protest, Machine Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004 Big and Holy, Cartelle Gallery, Marina Del Rey, CA
Untitled Group Show, ACME, Los Angeles, CA
Bumper Sticker Show, Class C, Los Angeles, CA
Wight Biennial: Dark Side of the Sun, Wight Gallery UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Grocery List, Art 2102 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Belief Like Bonsai, Andrewshire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Pink, Cartelle Gallery, Marina Del Rey, CA
Bibliography:
Cole, Lori, "Critics' Picks: Nina In Position", artforum.com, February 2008, <http://artforum.com/picks/>
Cotter, Holland, Museum and Gallery Listings: Art, New York Times, B23, February 15, 2008
Burkhart, Gerard, "His Level Best", Los Angeles Daily Journal, pg.3, October 17, 2007
Muchnic, Suzanne, "15 local visual artists will be named fellows", Los Angeles Times, E25, June 15, 2007
Firstenburg, Lauri, "Ten by Ten," uber.com, February 2007 <http://www.uber.com/art>
Cotter, Holland, "Art in Review: November," New York Times, B34, December 22, 2006
Torchia, Richard, "Very Early Pictures," D Magazine, Issue 01, 2005-6
Kun, Josh, "The New Chicano Movement," Los Angeles Times Magazine, January 9, 2005
Holl, Jess, "Driving Through the Pearly Gates, Los Angeles Times, E56, September 9, 2004
Gomez, Ed, "Pink at Cartelle Gallery," RIM, pgs.42-3, No.5, Summer 2004
Awards:
2007 California Community Foundation Fellowship
2003-06 Chancellor's Fellowship, University of California, Irvine
2005 Nominee, Dedalus Foundation MFA Fellowship in Sculpture
1993-97 Otis Scholarship, Otis College of Art Design
1993-97 Cal Grant
