1. In 2015, Nakhova became the first female artist to represent Russia in its pavilion at the Venice Biennial.
17 Facts About Irina Nakhova
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Irina Nakhova is represented by Nailya Alexander Gallery in New York City.
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Irina Nakhova is a Laureate of the Kandinsky 2013 Award.
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Irina Nakhova graduated from the Graphic Design Department of the Moscow Polygraphic Institute in 1978.
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Irina Nakhova was a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR from 1986 to 1989 and, alongside her friends and colleagues Ilya Kabakov, George Kisevalter, Vladimir Sorokin, Dmitrii Prigov, and Andrei Monastyrsky, is considered one of the founding members of Moscow Conceptualism.
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Irina Nakhova received international recognition as a young artist for Rooms, the first "total installation" in Russian art, located in the Moscow apartment where she still lives today.
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In 1988, Irina Nakhova was one of the youngest artists included in Sotheby's first auction in Moscow.
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Irina Nakhova's work caught the attention of American gallerist Phyllis Kind, who gave the artist three solo shows in New York in the early 1990s, Irina Nakhova's first exhibitions in the United States.
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In 2011, Irina Nakhova was featured as a special guest of the Fourth Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art.
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In 2013, Irina Nakhova was awarded the Kandinsky Prize in the category of Project of the Year, one of the highest honors in contemporary Russian art, for her work Untitled.
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In 2015, Irina Nakhova was chosen to represent Russia in its pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
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Irina Nakhova was the first female artist to represent Russia in a solo pavilion.
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Irina Nakhova's work has been shown in over thirty solo exhibitions and numerous major group exhibitions worldwide.
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Irina Nakhova's work has be shown in over ten group exhibitions.
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Irina Nakhova 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.
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Irina Nakhova's work is in public and private collections throughout France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States.
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Irina Nakhova's work is part of the Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Soviet Nonconformist Art, one of the largest collections of Soviet-era art outside Russia, amassed by American economist Norton Dodge from the late 1950s until the advent of Perestroika in the 1980s.