ARTISTS
Nina Katchadourian
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, Sculpture Center, 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.
http://www.ninakatchadourian.com/bio.php
Accessed 10/2/09
There is a type of lichen which is very common in the Finnish
archipelago and my family's summer house sits on a large granite hill
covered with it. I have always seen certain shapes as islands or
continents, and decided to affix rub-on letters directly to the lichens to
identify them as the places I recognized. When I had finished, the
whole hill had become a kind of scrambled atlas. The Moss Maps
series consists of about 20 photographs

http://www.ninakatchadourian.com/maps/mossmaps.php
Accessed 10/2/09
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