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'''Nina Kovacheva''' [[Category:Living people]]
'''Nina Kuo''' ({{zh|c=郭麗娜}}) <!--Please do not list Date of Birth per BLP; subject requested not to be listed--> is a [[Chinese Americans|Chinese American]] visual artist and activist who lives and works in New York City. Her work examines the role of women, feminism and identity in Asian-American art.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://asiancemagazine.com/2006/04/01/Caught-Between-Worlds-Artist-Nina-Kuo/|title=Caught Between Worlds: Artist Nina Kuo {{!}} Asiance Magazine|access-date=2019-11-16}}</ref><ref name="AAAC-Profile-2015">{{cite web|url=http://artasiamerica.org/artist/detail/122|title=Kuo, Nina: Profile|date=2015|website=[[Asian American Arts Centre]]}}</ref> Kuo has worked in partnership with the artist [[Lorin Roser]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.artslant.com/ny/events/show/55392-mythical-montage?tab=EVENT|title=exhibitions & events|last=Broadway|first=Gallery 456 Chinese American Arts Council456|last2=YorkNY|first2=3fl10013 New|website=ArtSlant|access-date=2019-11-30}}</ref>

Kuo grew up in [[Buffalo, New York|Buffalo]], [[New York (state)|New York]], the daughter of abstract painter [[James K.Y. Kuo]]. She received a bachelor of science degree from [[SUNY Buffalo]] where she attended workshops by [[Judy Chicago]] and showed work with [[Robert Longo]] and [[Cindy Sherman]].<ref name="BrooklynMuseum-FeministArtBase-Kuo-2014">{{cite web|url=https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/feminist_art_base/nina-kuo|title=Brooklyn Museum's Feminist Art Base: Nina Kuo, New York, USA|date=2014|website=[[Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art]], [[Brooklyn Museum]]|format=Database}}</ref>

After moving to New York City Kuo worked in activist art communities such as [[Basement workshop|Basement Workshop]] and as the first resident artist at the [[Asian American Arts Centre]] building registries through interviews and curation. Kuo was part of the [[Godzilla Asian American Arts Network]].<ref name=":0" /> She went to China and met her grandmother who she photographed and referenced in later works. She exhibited at the Clocktower MOMA PS1 in a show against racial prejudice, and her mural ''Politeness in Poverty of 1988'' was installed in the [[Bleecker Street/Broadway–Lafayette Street (New York City Subway)|Broadway Lafayette subway station]] in New York City.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.moma.org/artists/72007?locale=en|title=Nina Kuo {{!}} MoMA|website=The Museum of Modern Art|access-date=2019-11-17}}</ref> <ref name="MixedBlessings-2000">{{cite book|title=Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America|last1=Lippard|first1=Lucy R.|date=2000|publisher=New Press|isbn=978-1-565-84573-2|location=New York, NY|page=140|oclc=43958184}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|last=Kuo|first=Nina|title=English: p. 140 Mixed Blessing|date=2013-12-29|url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Politeness.jpg|access-date=2019-11-17}}</ref>

She was included by [[Marcia Tucker]] in the [[Bad Girls (art exhibition)]] at [[New Museum|The New Museum]] in 1994''.''<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://archive.newmuseum.org/images/4567|title=Images|website=New Museum Digital Archive|access-date=2019-11-17}}</ref> Her photo work was included by [[Lucy R. Lippard|Lucy Lippard]] in ''The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society following a residency at [[Museum of Chinese in America]]''.<ref name="LureOfTheLocal-1997">{{cite book|last1=Lippard|first1=Lucy R.|title=The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society|date=1997|publisher=New Press|location=New York|isbn=978-1-565-84247-2|page=17|url=http://www.asu.edu/courses/aph294/total-readings/lippard%20--%20thelureofthelocal.pdf|oclc=34958680}}</ref> In 1999 Kuo exhibited her ''Chi Pao (Chinese Banner Dresses)'' at the [[Center for Photography at Woodstock]] addressed gender stereotypes prevalent in [[Chinatown]].<ref name="CPW-ChiPao-1999">{{cite news|title=Nina Kuo: Chi Pao (Chinese Banner Dresses)|url=http://www.cpw.org/past-exhibitions/nina-kuo/|work=[[Center for Photography at Woodstock|Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW)]]|date=September 1999}}</ref>

In 2002 Lehman College Art Gallery presented ''If the Shoe Fits....''<ref name="LehmanCollegeArtGallery-Femininity-2002">{{cite news|url=http://www.lehman.edu/vpadvance/artgallery/gallery/femininity/essay.htm|title=Femininity in Contemporary Asian Art If the Shoe Fits... and Vernal Visions|last1=Karetzky|first1=Patricia Eichenbaum|date=2002|work=Lehman College Art Gallery}}</ref> [[Holland Cotter]] noted that when the artist first met her grandmother in 1980 she proudly displayed the three-inch-long shoes she wore on her bound feet.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/26/arts/art-in-review-femininity-in-contemporary-asian-art.html|title=ART IN REVIEW; 'Femininity in Contemporary Asian Art'|last=Cotter|first=Holland|date=2002-04-26|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-11-17|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> <ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FagiAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA13&lpg=PA13&dq=%22Nina+Kuo%22&source=bl&ots=zSX9a_Y-Ou&sig=4bbhhVynDd6kmI-v2LkO0c6h2l0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJuN-wltjRAhVF6iYKHamuCko4KBDoAQgZMAA#v=onepage&q=%22Nina%20Kuo%22&f=false|title=Femininity in Asian Women Artists' Work from China, Korea and USA: If the Shoe Fits|last=Karetzky|first=Patricia|date=July 2012|publisher=KT press|isbn=9780953654123}}</ref> In 2009, Kuo created a series of video, animation and installation art works called ''Mythical Montage,'' which examined "illusion, feminine irony and transformations of Asian influences"<ref name="CAAC-Profile">{{cite web|title=Visual Artist Nina Kuo|url=http://www.caacarts.org/dp/?q=/node/17&id=45|website=Chinese American Arts Council (CAAC)}}</ref><ref name="AsianConnections-MythicalMontage-2009">{{cite news|title=AsianConnections - Nina Kuo and Lorin Roser: Mythical Montage - Paintings Parallel 3D Animated Video|url=http://www.asianconnections.com/component/zoo/item/nina-kuo-and-lorin-roser-mythical-montage-paintings-parallel-3d-animated-video|work=AsianConnections|date=2009}}</ref> and her ''Tang Ladies'' <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.drawingcenter.org/viewingprogram/portfolio1eb7.html?pf=701|title=The Drawing Center - Viewing Program - Nina Kuo|website=www.drawingcenter.org|access-date=2019-11-18}}</ref> were described as "statuesque, delicate and quiet on the canvas as they investigate anachronistic details" referencing the Chinese woman's desire to fit in, as well as the often negative connotation given to them by society, specifically in New York City.<ref name="EnvisioningDiaspora-Godzilla-2009">{{cite book|title=Envisioning Diaspora: Asian American Visual Arts Collectives: From Godzilla, Godzookie to the Barnstormers|last1=Chang|first1=Alexandra|last2=New York University. Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program and Institute|date=2009|publisher=Timezone 8 Editions|isbn=978-9-881-75223-9|location=Beijing|chapter=The Network: Godzilla|oclc=465331057}}</ref> In 2013, Kuo commemorated [[Suicide of Danny Chen|Danny Chen]], who committed suicide after harassment and hazing for being Asian-American.<ref name="AsianInNY-DannyChen-2013">{{cite news|url=http://blog.asianinny.com/silent-voices-of-asian-american-warriors/commemorate-private-danny-chen%E2%80%99s-life/|title=Commemorate Private Danny Chen’s Life|date=1 May 2013|work=AsianInNY}}</ref> In 2014 she was featured in a solo show at Andre Zarre.<ref name="SinoVision-Artquakes-2014">{{cite news|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_O60oHc4ec|title=SinoVision Journal: Nina Kuo|last1=Stone|first1=Jane|date=21 April 2014|work=[[SinoVision]]}}</ref> Cultural influences from her travels in China, Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong were documented in 2016 on WNYU radio.<ref name="WNYURadio-3Q-2016">{{cite news|url=https://soundcloud.com/wnyu/3q-radio-nina-kuo|title=Episode 14. 3Q Radio: Nina Kuo|date=20 January 2016|work=[[WNYU-FM|WNYU Radio]]}}</ref>

Kuo received scholarships and studied at [[International Center of Photography]] in New York City. Her work is in the collections of [[Brooklyn Museum of Art]]<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/search?q=nina+kuo#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=nina%20kuo&gsc.page=1|title=Brooklyn Museum: Search Results|website=www.brooklynmuseum.org|access-date=2019-11-17}}</ref> and [[New Museum]] in [[New York City]]<ref name=":2" />. Over the years her work was selected by curators: [[Kellie Jones]], [[Thelma Golden]], Fred Wilson, [[Maddy Rosenberg]], [[Lucy Lippard]], [[Howardena Pindell]]. Kuo has exhibited with [[Ai Wei Wei]], [[Martin Wong]], [[Zhang Hongtu]], [[Tehching Hsieh]], [[Shirin Neshat]], and [[Dawoud Bey]]. She has lectured at [[the New School]], [[The Newark Museum of Art|Newark Museum]], Beijing University, Central Academy of Art, Beijing.

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== Exhibitions ==

===== Solo =====

*2007: "Chanel Chinoiserie," Cheryl McGinnis Gallery (New York, NY)<ref name="FranklinFurnace-ChanelChinoiserie-2007" />
*2009: "Mythical Museum," with Lorin Roser, Gallery 456 (New York, NY)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.caacarts.org/v1/index.html|title=Chinese American Arts Council; Gallery 456|website=www.caacarts.org|access-date=2019-11-29}}</ref>
*2014: "New Works: Artquakes, Andre Zarre Gallery (New York, NY)<ref name="SinoVision-Artquakes-2014" />

===== '''Group''' =====

* 1984: "ID: An Exhibition of Third World Woman Photographers," [[MoMA PS1]] (New York, NY)
* 1988: “Diverse Works” Coast to Coast” organized by Faith Ringgold, Clarissa Sligh (Houston TX)
* 1988: “In Her Own Image” Intar Gallery (New York, NY), curator, Howardena Pindell
* 1988: Longwood Arts Project (New York, NY), curator, Fred Wilson
* 1988: “Art Against Apartheid,” Clocktower Gallery (New York, NY)
* 1990: "Communycations: Public Mirror: Artists Against Racial Prejudice," MoMA PS1 (New York, NY)
* 1994: "Bad Girls (Part II)," [[New Museum of Contemporary Art New York]] (New York, NY)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/236|title=Exhibitions|website=New Museum Digital Archive|access-date=2019-11-18}}</ref>
* 2002: "Constellation – Celebrating 25 Years," [[Center for Photography at Woodstock|Center for Photography at Woodstock: CPW]] (Woodstock, NY)
* 2003: "Paper 2003," Metaphor Contemporary Art (New York, NY)
* 2003: "It's A Small World," China 2000 Fine Art (New York, NY)<ref name=NYTimes-China2000-2001>{{cite news|last1=Cotter|first1=Holland|title=Art Review; When East Goes West, The Twain Meet Here|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/23/arts/art-review-when-east-goes-west-the-twain-meet-here.html|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=23 March 2001}}</ref>
* 2005: "New York Eviction Blues," [[Asian American Arts Centre]] (New York, NY)
* 2005: "Welcome/Home," Cheryl McGinnis Gallery (New York, NY)
* 2006: "Between Two Worlds, Reflections on Contemporary Chinese Art," Cheryl McGinnis Gallery (New York, NY)
* 2012: "Hindsight : Foresight," Cheryl McGinnis Gallery (New York, NY)
* 2012: "Going Green II," Crossing Art (New York, NY)
* 2013: "Woman In Love – Asian Art Works (Beijing, China)
* 2014: "Social Photography IV," The Emily Harvey Foundation (New York, NY)
* 2014: "Occupied Canvas," Andre Zarre Gallery (New York, NY)<ref name="SinoVision-OccupiedCanvas-2014">{{cite news|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsmYihdw8Rk|title=Occupied Canvas: Nina Kuo|last1=Nelson|first1=Lani|date=9 September 2014|work=[[SinoVision]]}}</ref>
* 2017: "Nation IV – Thru The Rabbit Hole 2," Sideshow Gallery (New York, NY)
*2017: "Garden of Earthly Delights," Central Booking Gallery<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://centralbookingnyc.com/archive/haberspace-art-science-exhibitions/garden-of-earthly-delights/|title=Garden of Earthly Delights – CENTRAL BOOKING|access-date=2019-11-18}}</ref>
* American Museum of Natural History (New York, NY)

== Collections ==

* Asian Artworks, Inc.
*[[Bibliotheque Nationale]]
*[[Brooklyn Museum]]<ref name="ArtSlant-Profile">{{cite web|title=Nina Kuo: Profile|url=https://www.artslant.com/global/artists/show/10973-nina-kuo|website=ArtSlant}}</ref><ref name=":1" />
*[[Chicago Art Institute|Chicago Art Institute Library]]
*[[Library of Congress]]<ref name="LibraryCongress-BasementWorkshopPrints-1982">{{cite web|title=Prints by Chinese American artists produced by the Basement Workshop, New York. Includes: Arlan Huang - untitled; William Jung - Slave II; Nina Kuo - Neon Deviation; Colin Lee - untitled; John Woo - untitled|url=https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2010634111/|website=[[Library of Congress]]|date=1 January 1982}}</ref>
*[[Franklin Furnace]]<ref name="FranklinFurnace-ChanelChinoiserie-2007">{{cite web|title=Goings On January 17, 2007: Nina Kuo, FF Alumn, at Cheryl McGinnis Gallery, NY, reception/talk Jan 19, 6-9 pm|url=http://franklinfurnace.org/goings_on/recent_goings_on/2007/07_01_17.php#4|website=[[Franklin Furnace]]|date=17 January 2007}}</ref>
*[[Museum of Modern Art]]
*[[New Museum]]<ref name="CPW-ArtistBio">{{cite web|title=Nina Kuo (New York, NY)|url=http://www.cpw.org/artists/nina-kuo/|website=[[Center for Photography at Woodstock|Center for Photography at Woodstock: CPW]]}}</ref>
*[[Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art]]
* Women’s Graphic Center

== Grants and Residencies ==
* 1982: [[Asian American Arts Centre]] – Artist residency
* 1986: Artmatters – Grant
* 1990: [[Museum of Chinese in America]] – Artist residency
* 1993: Arts International – Travel grant to China1999: [[Light Work]] (Syracuse, NY) – Artist residency
* 1999: [[Center for Photography at Woodstock|Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW), now known as Catskill Center for Photography]] – Artist residency<ref name="CPW-ArtistBio" />
* 2001, 2002: [[New York Foundation for the Arts|New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA)]] – Artist grant<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://s3.amazonaws.com/NYFA_WebAssets/Pictures/fbff420f-79fe-4f34-800a-f94a82fa5876.pdf|title=New York Foundation for the Arts|last=|first=|date=|website=New York Foundation for the Arts|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref>
* 2002: Travel Grant to Japan to study Zen Painting

== Selected work ==
* 1996: ''Cloique (Reflection of Tao Talisman Calligraphy).'' [[Brooklyn Museum]] – Gelatin silver photograph<ref name=BrooklynMuseum-Cloique-1996>{{cite web|last1=Kuo|first1=Nina|title=Cloique (Reflection of Tao Talisman Calligraphy)|url=https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/156012|website=[[Brooklyn Museum]]|date=1996}}</ref>

== Works and publications ==
* {{cite book|last1=Kuo|first1=Nina|last2=Roser|first2=Lorin (sound)|title=Architectonic Inscapes|date=1984|publisher=Women's Graphic Center|location=Los Angeles, CA|url=http://digital-libraries.saic.edu/cdm/ref/collection/jfabc/id/2257|oclc=232641597}}
* {{cite book|last1=Florschuetz|first1=Thomas|last2=Younger|first2=Dan|last3=Diamond|first3=Ted|last4=Evers|first4=Winfred|last5=Kuo|first5=Nina|title=Thomas Florschuetz, Dan Younger, Ted Diamond, Winfred Evers, Nina Kuo|date=1988|publisher=Light Work|location=Syracuse, NY|oclc=71801380}} Catalog of an exhibition held at the Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery, Syracuse, NY

== References ==
{{Reflist|30em}}

== Further reading ==
* {{cite book|last1=Kuo|first1=Nina|title=Kuo, Nina: Photography bio file|publisher=Museum of Modern Art|location=New York, NY|url=http://arcade.nyarc.org:80/record=b745741~S8|oclc=83413046}}
* {{cite book|last1=Kuo|first1=Nina|title=Kuo, Nina: Artist file|publisher=Museum of Modern Art|location=New York, NY|url=http://arcade.nyarc.org:80/record=b736206~S8|oclc=82812431}}
* {{cite book|last1=Kuo|first1=Nina|title=Kuo, Nina: Franklin Furnace artist file|publisher=Museum of Modern Art|location=New York, NY|url=http://arcade.nyarc.org:80/record=b695997~S8|oclc=82706226}}
* {{cite book|last1=Kuo|first1=Nina|title=Kuo, Nina: Artist file|publisher=School of the Art Institute of Chicago|location=Chicago, IL|url=https://vufind.carli.illinois.edu/vf-sai/Search/Home?start_over=1type=keyword&lookfor=819456947|oclc=819456947}}
* {{cite book|last1=Karetzky|first1=Patricia Eichenbaum|title=Femininity in Contemporary Asian Women Artists' Work from China, Korea and USA: If the Shoe Fits|date=2012|publisher=KT Press|location=London|isbn=978-0-953-65412-3|chapter=Nina Kuo|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FagiAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA13&lpg=PA13&dq=%22Nina+Kuo%22&source=bl&ots=zSX9a_Y-Ou&sig=4bbhhVynDd6kmI-v2LkO0c6h2l0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJuN-wltjRAhVF6iYKHamuCko4KBDoAQgZMAA#v=onepage&q=%22Nina%20Kuo%22&f=false|oclc=912005550}}
* {{cite book|last1=Karetzky|first1=Patricia Eichenbaum|title=Chinese-Chinese American Contemporary Female Artists Living in the Material World|date=January 2013|publisher=Center Art Gallery at Kaplan Hall, [[SUNY Orange]]|location=Newburgh, NY|url=http://karetzky.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Livinginthematerialworld.pdf}}
* {{cite book|last1=Hatch|first1=James V.|title= Artist and Influence|date=2008|publisher =Hatch-Billops Collection Inc.|location=New York|asin=B01N52TVV4|chapter=Black Activist Artist from NYC|url=https://www.amazon.com/ARTIST-INFLUENCE-XXVII-James-Hatch/dp/B01N52TVV4/ref=sr_1_14?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1485751345&sr=1-14&refinements=p_27%3AJames+V.+Hatch}}

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Nina Kovacheva
NationalityBulgaria France
Occupation(s)Visual Artist
Painter
Multimedia Artist
Websiteninavale.com

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