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Artist's Bio

Nina has an MFA from the University of Illinois, Chicago and a BFA from the University of the Witwatersrand. She is currently pursuing a practice-based PhD at the University of Johannesburg. Her work has been exhibited and screened internationally, most notably in Chicago, New York, Seoul, Bilbao, Bergen, Paris and Johannesburg.

Artist's Statement

Nina Barnett’s creative practice uses drawings, prints, immersive installations and experimental filmmaking to engage with questions of geography, infrastructure, materiality, and experiential knowledge. Her most recent exhibition, entitled The Weight in the Air, reflected on radioactivity and mining waste particulate in the post-colonial atmosphere of Johannesburg. She is interested in the potential of collaborative and collective practice, so she works with like-minded artists, curators and practitioners to realise connected, generative projects.

Cité Experience

My time at the Cité came right after finishing my undergraduate studies, and it was a deeply influential and valuable experience. I connected to an international community of artists, many of which I am still in contact with (after 15 years!). The city of Paris, the art that I was able to view, and the time I was offered to make work all contributed to my understanding of a professional practice and the potential that art making could offer.