Nina Mhach Durban (She/her)
Artist living and working in London. Nina often 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.
Education
2019-2022, BA (Hons) Fine Art, Manchester School of Art
2018-2019, Foundation Diploma Fine Art, Kingston University
Group Exhibitions
2023
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
Residencies
Press & Publications
2023
A Diaspora Art Project Celebrates The Feminine Experience Of Migration, Homegrown India
These nostalgic artworks recreate teen bedrooms from a diasporic POV, Dazed
COZY Issue 2: π’π²π½πΎπͺπ½π²πΈπ·πΌπ±π²πΉ, COAS (Coeditor) - Stocked at ICA, South London Gallery & Shreeji News
2022
Paper Geographies (Zine)
Echoic (Zine)
COZY: Issue 1, COAS
2021
6 Artists to Celebrate Loudly in 2021, PORTER
British Art Special, The Face (Online)
British Art Special, The Face, Volume 4 - Issue 5
2020
Lonely Hearts, Shy Bairns
Curation & Programming
2022
Anya Paintsil: Artist Talk & Crit Session, Manchester Metropolitan University
SadΓ© 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