Nina Sarnelle will be in residence from April - May 2023.

Nina Sarnelle is an artist and musician living on stolen Tongva/Kizh land that is often referred to as Los Angeles. Their artwork includes participatory performances, music composition, video, and sculpture, and interfaces with sites of neocolonialism(s), ecological destruction and labor exploitation in strange and intimate ways. Nina earned a BA from Oberlin College and an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University. They recently had a solo video exhibition at the New Museum (NY), and their work has also shown at Whitechapel Gallery (London), Hammer Museum (LA), Getty Center (LA), Ballroom Marfa (TX), MoMA (NY), Istanbul Modern (Turkey), Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (Berlin),  Museum of Art, Architecture & Technology (Lisbon), Fundación PROA (Buenos Aires), Black Cube (Denver), Southern Exposure (San Francisco), Recess (NY), UNSW Galleries (Sydney), Project 88 (Mumbai), Kevin Space (Vienna), Villa Croce Contemporary Art Museum (Genova), M WOODS (Beijing), Human Resources (LA) and others. Nina has also been featured in Frieze, Art in America, Vogue Italy, Huffington Post, SFMOMA, Creators Project, FlashArt, and Hyperallergic.

 
 

Nina Sarnelle, video still from Lost Shark

Nina Sarnelle, video still from Ruined Birthday Surprise, 2022, featuring Ollin Felu

Nina Sarnelle, video still from Nike X and my Dead Hand, 2019


Nina Sarnelle, video still from Nike X and my Dead Hand, 2019