14 Facts About Nina Katchadourian

Nina Katchadourian was born on 1968 and is an American interdisciplinary artist and educator.

Nina Katchadourian is best known for her "Lavatory Self-Portraits in the Flemish Style," a series of self-portraits taken in airplane bathrooms.

Nina Katchadourian's projects have been exhibited widely, including a solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in July 2008, the Turku Art Museum in Finland in January 2006, and the ArtPace Foundation for Contemporary Art.

Nina Katchadourian's father, Herant Katchadourian, a Turkey-born and Beirut-raised Armenian, was a psychiatrist, a former Dean at Stanford University, and a Professor Emeritus of Human Biology.

Nina Katchadourian's mother, Stina Katchadourian, is Swedish-speaking Finn, and was a literary translator, writer and Esperanto expert.

Nina Katchadourian grew up spending summers on a small island in the Finnish archipelago, where she still spends part of each year.

Nina Katchadourian attended the Independent Study Program of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City in 1996.

Nina Katchadourian has worked in many media, including sculpture, photography, video, and sound.

Many of Nina Katchadourian's pieces involve bringing an incisive and playful order to the world.

Nina Katchadourian's "mended spider webs" series involves making careful but obvious "repairs" to the rips that occur in natural spiderwebs.

In some cases, Nina Katchadourian makes this obsession with order explicit, by working with maps and charts.

Nina Katchadourian has brought her fascination with systems to public spaces as well.

In 2006, in a project sponsored by the Public Art Fund, Nina Katchadourian installed a telescope on a Manhattan street corner, focused on a 17th-floor office of a nearby building.

In 2015, the Museum of Modern Art invited Nina Katchadourian to produce a work under its Artists Experiment program, in which contemporary artists create or perform pieces reflecting upon or utilizing museum resources.