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Innovative Artists Join Full-Time Faculty

Nina Katchadourian and Meleko Mokgosi Help to Expand Art Offerings

Aug 22, 2012

Nina Katchadourian

Contact: Jean Dykstra
(212) 992-9825
jmd7@nyu.edu

Nina Katchadourian, who has been teaching at Gallatin part time, is now a full-time faculty member. Katchadourian creates installations, photography, video, sound-based work and public projects. She has had solo shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, and the Art Pace Foundation for Contemporary Art in San Antonio, as well as the Turku Art Museum in Finland. She earned B.A.s in visual art and literature and society from Brown University and an M.F.A. from the University of California, San Diego. She is also a graduate of the Whitney Indepdenent Study Program. Her 10-year retrospective exhibition, All Forms of Attraction, at the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, was nominated for best monographic exhibition by the Association of International Art Critics. She is represented bythe Catharine Clark Gallery in San Francisco. Katchadourian is teaching “Sound Art” this semester.

 

Meleko Mokgosi

Meleko Mokgosi is an interdisciplinary artist who combines figurative painting, cinematic tropes, psychoanalysis and post-colonial theory. Mokgosi is the recipient of the $100,000 Mohn Award, presented by the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles for outstanding artwork in the museum's "Made in LA" biennial. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, at such institutions as the Hammer Museum, the Botswana National Gallery and the Studio Museum in Harlem. Born in Botswana, Mokgosi attended Williams College in Massachusetts and the Slade School of Fine Arts in London. He participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program and earned his M.F.A. in the Interdisciplinary Studio Program at UCLA. Mokgosi is teaching “Art in Critical Theory” and “Drawing: Body and Narrative” this semester.

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