Nina Mhach Durban (She/her)
Artist living and working in London. Nina frequently works as part of an artist duo with Athen Kardashian.
Nina Mhach Durban is a multidisciplinary artist preoccupied with physical and sensory ways of engaging with the diasporic experience. By way of a sculptural interaction with found images, she preserves and celebrates British Asian histories through the creation of an alternative, expanded archive, closely informed by her own familial experience of postcolonial migration.
Nina is also a member of artist collective Colours of Art School , the online art school for people of colour.
Solo Exhibitions
2024
I’ll Wear The Bangles From Your Hands, Soup, London
2023
Athen & Nina : Sleepover, Gathering, London
Full Fat Cola, WASTE! STORE, London
Group Exhibitions
2023
Come Closer, Indigo+Madder, London
Beauty Tech Art Spa, Cornershop, London
Fear of the Dark: Viewing Room, SOUP, London
First Edition, Collective Ending, London
The State of It, GALLERY 46, London
Fracture Me Tenderly, Greatorex Street, London
(Homing, or), Keepsake Project, London
The Ultimate Bootleg Experience, Studio Chapple, London
2022
Colours of Art School Presents: Conversation Starters, AMP Gallery, London
Falling Into Place: Manchester School of Art Degree Show, Manchester
Paper Geographies, Arles, France
Made It 2022, HOME, Manchester
2021
All I Want For Christmas Is You..., Grosvenor Gallery, Manchester
(In)Appropriated Image, The Link Gallery, Manchester
PERMANENT TEMPORARY, Livesey Exchange, Part of London Design Festival, London
Grubber x Baesianz Present Roots, Art Hub Gallery, London
Does Not Your House Dream?, 285-287 Deansgate, Manchester
Interruptions: The Intersectional Hydra, The Holden Gallery, Manchester
2020
ON TEST: Curated by Garth Gratrix, Grosvenor Gallery, Manchester
Press & Publications
2024
Vogue India, This British-Indian artist duo celebrates diasporic girlhood through ’90s Bollywood stars
Elephant Magazine, Translating Girlhood: Nina Mhach Durban and Athen Kardashian at Soup
2023
Frieze, The Year in Review: Y2K Was the Ex We Couldn't Quit
The Face, The best of British South Asian talent
Plaster Magazine, Artists Athen & Nina blend Y2K kitsch with their Indian roots
FAD Magazine, THAT’S INTERESTING HELEN NEVEN
The White Pube, WHAT I SAW LAST WEEK: 21th September
Spittle's Newsletter, “you have more in common with an orca than a billionaire": Exhibition of the week
DAZED, Starters: Our pick of the names pushing culture forward, Volume V Summer 2023 Issue 280
Homegrown India, A Diaspora Art Project Celebrates The Feminine Experience Of Migration
DAZED, These nostalgic artworks recreate teen bedrooms from a diasporic POV
COAS (Coeditor), COZY Issue 2: 𝓢𝓲𝓽𝓾𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓼𝓱𝓲𝓹 - Stocked at ICA, South London Gallery & Shreeji News
2022
Paper Geographies (Zine)
Echoic (Zine)
COAS, COZY: Issue 1
2021
PORTER, 6 Artists to Celebrate Loudly in 2021
The Face (Online), British Art Special
The Face, British Art Special, Volume 4 - Issue 5
2020
Shy Bairns, Lonely Hearts
Residencies
Education
2019-2022, BA (Hons) Fine Art, Manchester School of Art
2018-2019, Foundation Diploma Fine Art, Kingston University
Curation & Programming
2022
Anya Paintsil: Artist Talk & Crit Session, Manchester Metropolitan University
Sadé Mica: Artist Talk & Crit Session, Manchester Metropolitan University
2021
All I Want For Christmas Is You..., Grosvenor Gallery, Manchester
Does Not Your House Dream?, 285-287 Deansgate, Manchester
Talks
2022
Collaborative Collectives: Building Equity and Care in the Art School, Manchester Metropolitan University