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Irina Nakhova

born 1955

Room no. 2 1984
© Irina Nakhova

Biography

Irina Isayevna Nakhova (Russian: Ирина Исаевна Нахова; born 1955 in Moscow) is an artist who has worked and lived between Moscow and the United States since 1989. Nakhova is a painter and installation artist. Her installations employ painting, sculpture, digital printing, video, and audio.   In 2013, she won the prestigious Kandinsky Prize for her installation, Without A Title.  In 2015, Nakhova became the first female artist to have a solo exhibit in the Russian Pavilion at the Venice Biennial. She is represented by Nailya Alexander Gallery in New York City. Nakhova currently lives and works in New Jersey and Moscow.

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  • Room no. 2

    Irina Nakhova
    1984
  • Simultaneous Contrast

    Irina Nakhova
    1989

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    Irina Nakhova: 'Real Freedom in Your Apartment’

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    Irina Nakhova on the architecture of destruction

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    Our Collective History: Legacies of Soviet visual culture

    Natalia Sidlina, Juliet Bingham, Emilia Kabakov, Andrei Monastyrski, Irina Nakhova and Arseny Zhilyaev

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