Irina Nakhova is one of the key figures of Moscow conceptualism, which emerged in the 1970s in the USSR. Painter, graphic artist, book artist, master of large-scale installations who uses different techniques and materials. She is among the first artists who began to engage in installation art in Russia. Since 1992 she has lived and worked in the USA, and regularly organizes exhibitions in Moscow. Professor of painting at Wayne State University (Detroit). In 2013, Nakhova became a laureate of the Kandinsky Prize in the “Project of the Year” category, and in 2015, an exhibitor of the Russian Pavilion at the 56th International Venice Biennale. Works by Irina Nakhova are in the collections of The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, The Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection, New Brunswick, USA; Tate Modern, London, UK; State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia; National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia; Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia; Cultural Foundation "Ekaterina", Moscow, Russia.

Solo exhibitions

2011

Rooms, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia

2010

Irina Nakhova and Pavel Pepperstein: Moscow Partisan Conceptualism, Orel Art UK, London, UK

2009

Disconnected, Open Gallery, Moscow, Russia

2008

Zone of No Distinction, XL Gallery, Moscow, Russia

2007

Disagreeable Matters-Disarming Icons, Windows at Kimmel Center, New York University, New York, NY US

2006

Trip, XL Gallery, Moscow, Russia

Moscow Installation, Karlsruhe Kunstlerhaus, Karlsruhe

2005

Artificial Shrubbery, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Probably Would, Nailya Alexander Gallery, New York, NY US

Two New, Kresge Gallery, Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ US

2004

Alert: Code Orange, National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow

Us, XL Gallery, Moscow RU

Silence, Galerie im Traklhaus, Salzburg

2003

When Will You Be Home?, Wooster College Art Museum, Wooster, OH US

Rehearsal. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia

2002

Stay With Me, XL Gallery, Moscow, Russia

2001

Annunciation, XL Gallery, Moscow, Russia

2000

Deposition, Rupertinum, Museum Moderner Kunst, Salzburg

Showroom: Installation with Big Red, Tallinn City Gallery, Tallinn EST

1999

Big Red, XL Gallery, Moscow

Archeology of the Room, Gallery Obscuri Viri, Moscow

1998

Showroom: Installation with Big Red, Galerie Eboran, Salzburg

Honeybuns Performing Goethe's Werter, with Günter Unterburger, Galerie im Alcatraz, Hallein

1997

What I Saw, XL Gallery, Moscow

Power of Painting: Food Painting, Bunting Gallery, Royal Oak, MI US

1996

Daddy Needs to Relax, Gallery Obscuri Viri, Moscow

1995

Friends and Neighbors, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI US

Feast for the Gods, XL Gallery, Moscow

1993

Careful With Your Eyes, Gallery 60, Umea

1992

In Memoriam, Chicago International Art Exposition, Special Project Installation, Chicago, IL US

Recent Works, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY US

1991

Partial Triumph II, Galeria Berini, Barcelona

1990

Momentum Mortis, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY US

1989

Partial Triumph I, Vanessa Devereux Gallery, London