BIO
Nina Ankisetty is a curator, critic, and artist working in Tkaronto (Toronto), Ontario. She is graduating from OCAD University in 2024 with a Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts, majoring in Criticism and Curatorial Practice. Nina has curated exhibitions in Toronto, as well as shown her work in group exhibitions. Her art practice is informed by the conceptual art tendency of the 1960s and explores systems such as text and language and how they intersect with the self. Nina has worked abroad at Elektrohalle Rhomberg Gallery (Salzburg, Austria) and locally, currently working at Onsite Gallery and Patel Brown Gallery. After graduating, she will be interning at Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery in Salzburg.
When she is not at home, she is at the grocery store using all her funds to buy flour. When she is at home, she is using all the flour to bake tons of yummies. This baking is often interrupted by her needing to run to her balcony and shoo away pigeons. Don’t be mistaken, Nina loves animals, but not animal feces on her balcony.
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EDUCATION
2024 OCAD University, Criticism and Curatorial Practice Major, Dean’s List
2020 Cawthra Park Secondary School, Visual Arts Major, Honour Roll
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2024 to nurture culture is to harvest, OCAD U Grad Ex, Co-Curated with Kay Rangel and Ash Waithe, Toronto, ON
2024 the buds on the trees look like pistachios, Youthful Vengeance, Co-Curated with Deirdre McIntosh, Toronto, ON
2023 Anatomy of Blue, OCAD U Ada Slaight Gallery, Toronto, ON
2022 Synergy, OCAD U Grad Studies, Toronto, ON
2022 Where We Rely, Carbonic Coffee, Toronto, ON
2022 Together, OCAD U ODESI, Co-Curated with Jackie Knight, Toronto, ON
2019 Winterfest, Cawthra Park SS, Mississauga, ON
EXHIBITIONS
2023 To Use or Not Reuse, OCAD U Reuse Depot, Toronto, ON
2022 Synergy, OCAD U, Toronto, ON
2022 Where We Rely, Carbonic Coffee, Toronto, ON
2022 Together, OCADU ODESI, Toronto, ON
2019 Winterfest, Cawthra Park SS, Mississauga, ON
2017-2019 Springfest, Cawthra Park SS, Mississauga, ON
TALKS
2022 Writer-Artist Sit-In Social, OCAD U, Toronto, ON
2022 Artist Talk, OCAD U Professional Practice Course, Toronto, ON
WORK EXPERIENCE
2024-Pres. Patel Brown Gallery, Toronto, ON
2022-Pres. Onsite Gallery, Toronto, ON
2022-2024 Koffler Gallery, Toronto, ON
2022 Elektrohalle Rhomberg Galerie, Salzburg, Austria
WRITING, PEER REVIEWED
2023 Helen Frankenthaler: Her Stain on American Art, Journal of Visual and Critical Studies, https://journalvcs.files.wordpress.com/2023/05/jvcs-journal_single-pages_may-26_426pm-1.pdf, Toronto, ON
2023 CONTACT 2023 / Artoronto Picks, https://www.artoronto.ca/?p=51256, Toronto, ON
2023 Tumbling in Harness at the Art Museum at UofT (review), Artoronto, https://www.artoronto.ca/?p=51491, Toronto, ON
PUBLICATIONS
2022 Critica: SYNERGY, Synergy Exhibition, Self-Published, Toronto, ON
2022 Where We Rely, Where We Rely Exhibition, Self-Published, Toronto, ON
2022 A Pessimist’s Thoughts, Together Exhibition, Self-Published, Toronto, ON
AWARDS
2020-2022 OCAD U Deans List
2016-2020 Cawthra Park SS Honour Roll