About Nina Yankowitz
My Installations and 3D projections are excavations designed to stretch commonly accepted definitions by blurring the edges between solid and fictive places that question the real-to-reel. “Shatter/FloodMudHouse” A 3D video portrait depicting disasters caused by global warming weather conditions. Some exhibits and art venues include: Inaugural Whitney Biennial exhibit 1973 NYC, National Academy Museum 2010, MOMA Art & archives NYC, Katonah Art Museum, Indianapolis Mus. Of Art 1972, Kunsthaus, Hamburg Germany1972, "Hell's Breath” Installation, PS.1 MOMA Queens N.Y. 1982, MOMA, Kiev, Ukraine 2011, Gallery Venues include: Germans Van Eck Gallery, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Guild Hall Art Museum, Frederieke Taylor TZ Art, Saatchi & Saatchi, New York. Global Collaborations to create interactive games and exhibits include: The Third Woman, Third Woman interactive film/game and Interventions-Greek Museum of Art 2009, Interactive Global Warming Game “Truth or Consequences” for ISEA 2012 conference. “CROSSINGS” An interactive installation at the Thessaloniki Biennale, Greece 2009, (conceived 2002 by Nina Yankowitz “House of Worships Not Warships”), Update 2014 “Criss~Crossing The Divine” with robotic Devotees-in-motion and interactive games at Guild Hall art museum, “Kiosk.Edu” Public Art Installation Chicago Art Fair 2005. Permanent installations by NY Art Projects team include: an interactive Poetry Walk where spheres recite poetry as people walking by or sitting activate electronic sensors, Cleveland Ohio. Albright College Center, Penna., Arts for Transit subway @51st NYC, IS.145 School, Dept. Cultural Affairs Queens, 2 rooftop Plazas "Garden of Games & “Garden of Scientific Ideas”, Arts for transit Freehold, N.J. Newark N.J, Seating/Santa Monica Ca. Publications include New York Times, The Village Voice, Vogue Magazine, Art Forum, Art News, Wall Street journal. Grants include Ford Found, NEA, CAPS, Pollock-Krasner & visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome.
Exhibition Highlights
2014 Criss~Crossing the Divine Guild Hall Art Museum, N.Y.
2013 Museum of Modern Art, New York, MoMA PopRally projections exhibit, GlassHouseSpin_BareBones
2012 Global Warming Bursting Seams, Museum Quarter, Curator Ruth Schnell-Dr. Jahrmann, Vienna
2011 Museum of Modern Art, Kiev, Curator Koan Jeff Baysa
2010 National Academy Museum New York Annual 185 Exhibition, NYC
2009 Third Woman interactive film collaboration, Kunsthalle, Vienna
2009 Thessaloniki Biennale State Mus.Of Art Greece Third Woman interactive film & Interventions
2009 Thessaloniki Biennale State Mus.Of contemp. Art Greece “Crossings” team- interactive Installation
2009 Katowice Academy of Art Museum, Poland
2005 Guild Hall Art Museum,Kiosk.EDU, East Hampton, NY
1996 The Bass Museum, Miami, Florida
1990 Katonah Museum of Art, The Technological Muse
1987 Snug Harbor Museum, Staten Island, N.Y
1985 Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA
1982 MoMa PS 1 Hell's Breath - Curator Bill Hellerman
1981 Maryland Museum of Fine Arts, Baltimore, MD
1973 Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, Biennial
1973 Brockton Museum, Boston, MA
1972 Larry Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, Conn. Works on paper
1972 Kunsthaus, Hamburg, Germany, American Women Artists
1972 The Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey
1972 Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art
1972 The Art Institute of Chicago, "American Artists Today"
1972 Suffolk Museum, Stonybrook, NY
1971 Akron Museum of Art, Akron, OH
1970 Museum of Modern Art, NY
1970 Larry Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, Conn. "Highlights"
1970 Trinity College Museum, Hartford, Conn.