With regard to her art trend Irina Nakova is a conceptualist artist. She has become a pioneer of the genre of the rooms that laid the basis for the main type of installations in Moscow art.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

1955   born in Moscow

1978   graduated from the Moscow Polygraphic Institute (Department of Printed Product Styling)

From 1986   member of the USSR Union of Artists

From 1994   professor of contemporary art, Detroit University

Lives and works in New York

1989   "Partial Triumph I". Vanessa Devereux Gallery, London

1990   "Momentum Mortis". Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York

1991   "Partial Triumph II". Galeria Berini, Barcelona, Spain

1992   "In Memoriam". Special Project Installation. Chicago International Art Exposition, Chicago, USA
"Recent Works". Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York

1993   "Careful With Your Eyes". Gallery 60, Umeo, Sweden

1995   "Friends and Neighbors". Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA
"Feast for Gods". XL Gallery, Moscow (Catalogue)

1996   "Dad Needs Some Rest". Obscuri Viri Gallery, Moscow

1997   "That’s What I Saw". XL Gallery, Moscow (Catalogue)
"Power of Painting: Food Painting". Bunting Gallery, Royal Oak, Michigan, USA

1998   "Installation with Big Red". Galerie Eboran, Showroom, Salzburg, Austria
"Honeybuns Performing Goethe's Werter" (together with Gunter Unterburger). Galerie im Alcatraz, Hallein, Austria

1999   "Big Red". XL Gallery, Moscow (Catalogue)
"Room’s Archeology". Obscuri Viri Gallery, Moscow

2000   "Deposition. Rupertinum". Museum for Contemporary Art, Salzburg, Austria; Tallinn City Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia

2001   "Annunciation". XL Gallery, Moscow (Catalogue)

2002   "Just Stay with Me". XL Gallery, Moscow (Catalogue)

2003   "Rehearsal". The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
"When Will You Be Home". Wooster College Art Museum, Ohio, USA

2004   Hyper Danger Extent. State Contemporary Art Center, Moscow

1984   XV Exhibition of Young Moscow Artists. Central Exhibition Hall Manege, Moscow

1986   XVII Exhibition of Young Moscow Artists. Moscow House of Artists, Moscow

1987   "Artist and Modernism". Krasnogvardeisky District Exhibition Hall, Moscow
"Representation". Amateur Association Hermitage. Exhibition Hall on Profsoyuznaya ul. 100, Moscow
"Retrospective of Moscow Artists’ Works, 1957-1987". Amateur Association Hermitage. Exhibition Hall on Profsoyuznaya ul. 100, Moscow
1^st Exhibition of Avant-Garde Club. Proletarsky District Exhibition Hall, Moscow

1988   "USSR: New Tendencies". Arte Fiera, Bologna, Italy (Catalogue)
"Ich Lebe, Ich Sehe". Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland (Catalogue)
"Russian Avant-Garde and Soviet Contemporary Art", Sotheby's Auction, USSR Ministry of Culture (exhibition and auction). International Trade Center, Moscow (Catalogue)
2^nd Exhibition of Avant-Garde Club. Proletarsky District Exhibition Hall, Moscow
"Neuvostoliiton Nuorta Taidetta". Turun Taidemuseossa, Turun, Finland (Catalogue)

1988-89   "Art: Moscow-Berlin- Stockholm". Bahnhof Westend, West Berlin; Construction Exhibition, Moscow; Kulturhuset, Stockholm (Catalogue)

1989   "The Green Show". Exit Art, New York (Catalogue)
"Expensive Art". Moscow Youth Palace, Moscow

1990   "Summer Atelier". Messelgelande Hanover, Hanover, Germany (Catalogue)
"Catalogue". Moscow Youth Palace, Moscow (Catalogue)
"Woman-Worker". Exhibition Hall in Oktyabrskaya ul., Moscow
"The Work of Art in the Age of Perestroika". Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York (Catalogue)
"Inexpensive Art". First Gallery, Moscow
"The Storm Collection". Century Gallery, London (Catalogue)

1991   "The Passions on Strastnoy". First Gallery, Moscow
"Moscow Avant-Garde Art". MANI Museum, Frankfurt, Germany (Catalogue)
"Novecento". Central House of Artists, Moscow (Catalogue)
"ARCO", Madrid, Spain

1992   "Installations". Tsaritsino Museum’. Bratislava, Slovakia (Catalogue)
"A Mosca . . . a Mosca . . ." Villa Campolieto, Herculanum, Italy; Galeria Comunale d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy (Catalogue)
"A Changeable Feast: International Flavors", Center for Innovative Printmaking, Rutgers University. Walters Hall Gallery, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
"Master Prints". Gallery at Bristol Meyers Squibb, Princeton, New Jersey, USA

1993   "Addresse Provisoire". Musee de la Poste, Paris (Catalogue)
"Baltic Sculpture 93". Gotlands Art Museum, Wisby, Sweden (Catalogue)
"After Perestroika: Kitchenmaids or Statesmen". Independent Curators Incorporated (ICI), (travelling exhibition: 6 museums). USA – Canada (Catalogue)
"Monuments: Transformation for the Future". Contemporary Art Institute, Moscow, Institute for Contemporary Art, New York. ICA, New York – Central House of Artists, Moscow (Catalogue)
"Exchange, Granary Books". Susan Teller Gallery, New York
"Gallery 60". Konsthogskolan, Umea, Sweden
"Careful With Your Eyes". Sundsvall's Art Museum, Sundsvall, Sweden

1994   "Fellowship Recipients", Center for Innovative Printmaking, Rutgers University. Mason Gross School of the Arts, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA
"Natural Histories, Pyramid Atlantic". Riverdale, Maryland, USA
"Paper, Process, Art". The Art Gallery, Suffolk Community College, Selden, New York
"Artist instead of an Art Piece". Central house of Artist, Moscow
"Dialogue with the Other". Kundsthallen Brandt's Klaedefabrik, Odenseb, Denmark; Nordkoping Konst Museum, Nordkoping, Sweden (Catalogue)
Cetinje Biennial. Cetinje Art Museum, Cetinje, Montenegro (Catalogue)
"Before 'Neo' and After 'Post'". Lehman College Art Gallery, New York (Catalogue)
"Impressions of Lakeside". Bunting Gallery, Royal Oak, Michigan, USA (Catalogue)

1995   "City Limits". Paint Creek Center for the Arts, Rochester, Michigan, USA
"Cathedral of Time" Project" (a Collaborative Installation organized by Irina Nakhova). Michigan Central Depot. Detroit, Michigan, USA (Catalogue)
"Non-Conformists in Russia, 1957-1965". Wilhelm-Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rein - Documenta Halle, Kassel - Staatliches Lindenau Museum, Altenburg, Germany; Central Exhibition Hall Manege, Moscow (Catalogue)
"5 + 5". The Educational Alliance. New York
"From Gulag to Glasnost: Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union, 1956-1986, The Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection". Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA (Catalogue)
"The Holiday Show: Objects for and about the Holidays". Center Galleries, Detroit, Michigan, USA
"Dieu Donne Editions, 1988-1995". Dieu Donne Gallery, New York
"Silent Auction Exhibition". Dieu Donne Papermill Inc., New York
"Laughter Ten Years After" (traveling exhibition: 6 museums and galleries), USA – Canada (Catalogue) Wayne State University Art Faculty Exhibition. Community Arts Gallery, Detroit, Michigan, USA

1996   "How to Draw a Horse". Central House of Artists, Moscow
Wayne State University Art Faculty Exhibition, Community Arts Gallery, Detroit, Michigan, USA
"Pulp Fusion". Columbia Art Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
"Time is Now". Detroit Focus Gallery, Detroit, Michigan, USA
"Family Values: Rhetoric vs. Reality". T.W. Wood Art Gallery, Monpelie, Vermont, USA
International Forum of Artistic Initiatives. State Exhibition Hall Maly Manege, Moscow

1997   "Russian Art in Fifteen Destinies". Mucharnok, State Exhibition Hall, Budapest, Hungary
"RUM". Edsvik Konst och Kultur, Stockholm
"4x Margareta". Kalmar Konstmuseum, Kalmar, Sweden (Catalogue)
"Square Meal" (organizer and participant). Community Art Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
"Abandoned Building Investigation" (organizer and participant). Pontiac Building, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
"The Clothes Show: Objects for and About Clothes". Center Galleries, Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, Michigan, USA
"Art Moscow". International Art Fair. Central Exhibition Hall Manege, Moscow

1998   "Praprintium". Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Berlin; Forschungsstelle Osteuropa an der Universitat Bremen, Bremen, Germany (Catalogue)
Art Forum Berlin, XL Gallery. Berlin
"Modernism and Post-Modernism: Russian Art of the Ending Millennium". Yager Museum, Hartwick College, Oneanta, New York
"Self-Portrait". Dieu Donne Papermill Inc., New York

1998-99   "Sculpture – Figure - Woman". Upper Austrian Regional Museum, Pins, Austria; Stadtische Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany (Catalogue)
"Women in Art", Kolodzei Art Foundation. Russian Consulate and Friendship Gallery, Chevy Chase, MD, New York

1999   International Forum of Artistic Initiatives. State Exhibition Hall Maly Manege, Moscow
"Conceptualist Art: Points of Origin 1950s-80s". Queens Museum, Queens, New York ; Walker Art Center Minneapolis, Michigan, USA (Catalogue)
"My First Work". Pasadena City College Gallery, Pasadena, California, USA (Catalogue)
Art Forum, XL Gallery. Berlin
"Collector’s Edge". New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, New Jersey, USA
"Russia without a Museum of Contemporary Art. Part 2", XL Gallery. Lewerkusen, Germany
"Contemporary Art of the 1950s-80s", from the collection of Tsaritsino Reserve Museum. Central House of Artists, Moscow
"Fauna". Contemporary Art State Center. State Exhibition Hall Maly Manege, Moscow

2000   "Seeing Isn’t Believing – Russian Art Since Glasnost", Lamont Art Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, USA
"Russian Artists of the 1960’s-1990’s". Schimmel Center for the Arts, Pace University, New York
"Polar Cold: Inspections Medical Hermeneutics and Russian Art of the 90’s". Krasnoyarsk, Russia; Ecole Nationale Supiere des Beaux-Arts, Paris (Catalogue)
"Land Escape". Dieu Donne Papermill Inc., New York

2001   "Milano Europa 2000". Paviglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
"Dumbo Double Deuce". 10 Jay Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn, New York
"Women Artists from the Dodge Collection", Zimmerli Art Museum. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
"Four Women and Their Ironing Boards". Artemsia Gallery, Chicago, USA

2002   "Feminine Art". The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow (Catalogue)
"Aquaria". Oberosterreicheschen Landesmuseum, Linz, Austria; Kunstammlungen Cheminitz, Cheminitz, Germany (Catalogue)
"Mind body". The Gallery at Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, New Jersey (Catalogue)
"Moscow Time". Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius; Contemporary Art Center, Nizhny Novgorod (Catalogue)

2003   Luleа Sommar Biennal, KILen, The Artists Group in Luleа. Luleo, Sweden
"Berlin – Moscow/Moscow – Berlin, 1950 – 2000". Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin
3^rd International Biennial of contemporary graphic art. State Picture Gallery, Novosibirsk
"Tests of Time: Five Reflections". Jewish Community Center in Manhattan, New York
"Contemporary Art Celebrating Life". Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, USA

TEACHING

1993 (May-June)   Artist in Residence in Sweden Project (AIRIS), Arts Grant Committee in Sweden. Gotlands Art School, Gotlands, Sweden
September-October   Guest Artist, Academy of Fine Arts, Umea University, Sweden

1994-1997   Visiting Artist (Assistant Professor in Painting), Wayne State University, Detroit, USA

1996   Artist-Teacher, MFA Visual Arts Program. Vermont College of Norwich University, Monpelie, USA

1998 (July-August)   Artist in Residence, Internationale Sommerakademie fur Bildende Kunst, Salzburg, Austr ia

2000 (July-August)   Artist in Residence, Internationale Sommerakademie fur Bildende Kunst, Salzburg, Austria
February   Visiting Art Critic, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA
February-May   Visiting Artist, Princeton Atelier, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA

2001 – present   Visiting Artist/Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

2002 (July-August)   Artist in Residence, Internationale Sommerakademie fur Bildende Kunst, Salzburg, Austria

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Bakstein I. Irina Nakhova. – Flash Art (Russian edition), No. 1 (1989), pp. 151 - 153
Brown, Matthew Cullerne. Contemporary Russian Art.. Phaidon: London, 1989, and New York, 1991, pp. 105-108
Tupitsyn, Margarita. Unveiling Feminism: Women's Art in the Soviet Union. Arts (December 1990), pp.63-97
Solomon, Andrew. The Irony Tower. Alfred A. Knopf: New York, 1991, pp. 24, 27, 28, 77, 84, 89, 158, 224, 273, 275
Heartney, Eleanor. Irina Nakhova at Phyllis Kind's. Art in America (October 1992), p.145
Isaak, Jo Anna. Reflections of Resistance. Heresies, Vol. 26 (New York 1993), pp. 29-31
Baigall, Renee and Matthew. Soviet Dissident Artists. Interviews After Perestroika. Rutgers University Press: Rutgers, New Jersey, 1995, pp. 366-372
Dyogot, Ekaterina. Contemporary Painting in Russia. Craftsman House G&B Arts International, 1995. pp. 106-109
Isaak, Jo Anna. Feminism and Contemporary Art. The Revolutionary Power of Women's Laughter. Routledge: London and New York, 1996, pp. 116-119
Tupitsyn, Victor. If I Were a Woman. Third Text. Autumn 1997, pp 85-93
Dyogot Е. Russian Art of the 20^th Century. Moscow, Trilistnik (Trefoil), 2000, pp. 196-198
Baigall, Renee and Matthew. Peeling Potatoes, Painting Pictures. Zimmerli Museum and Rutgers University Press: New Brunswick, New Jersey, 2001, pp. 17, 52, 128-129, 130-133, 136, 150, 157

COLLECTIONS

Norton Dodg Gallery
Tsaritsino Contemporary Art Museum
and also in private collections in Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Spain, Russia, France, Sweden, Switzerland and USA