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.

Education

2019-2022, BA (Hons) Fine Art, Manchester School of Art

2018-2019, Foundation Diploma Fine Art, Kingston University

Solo Exhibitions

2023

Athen & Nina : Sleepover, Gathering, London

Group Exhibitions

2023

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

Residencies

Press & Publications

2023

Spittle's Newsletter, β€œyou 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 IndiaA 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: 𝓒𝓲𝓽𝓾π“ͺ𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓼𝓱𝓲𝓹 - Stocked at ICA, South London Gallery & Shreeji News

2022

Paper Geographies  (Zine)

Echoic  (Zine)

COASCOZY: Issue 1

2021

PORTER6 Artists to Celebrate Loudly in 2021

The Face (Online), British Art Special

The FaceBritish Art Special,  Volume 4 - Issue 5

2020

Shy BairnsLonely Hearts

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

Using Format