Nina Kintsurashvili

Verse II, 2024, oil on linen, 66 7/8 x 66 7/8 inches (170 x 170 cm)

Nina Kintsurashvili (b. 1992, Tbilisi, Georgia) lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. An interdisciplinary artist and painter, she earned her BFA in painting from Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 2014 and her MFA in Sculpture & Intermedia from The University of Iowa in 2014 as a Fulbright Foreign Student. Kintsurashvili’s works have been exhibited at Gallery Artbeat (Tbilisi, Georgia), Svaneti Museum of History and Ethnography (Mestia, Georgia), Public Space One (Iowa City, Iowa), Kunstraum Lakeside (Klagenfurt, Austria), LC Queisser (Tbilisi, Georgia), Ortega y Gasset Projects (New York, New York), and Tatjana Pieters (Ghent, Belgium), among others. She will hold a solo exhibition at Konsthall C (Stockholm, Sweden) in April 2025. 

  • Born

    Tbilisi, Georgia, 1992 
    Lives and works in Tbilisi, GE

    Education

    • 2020 | MFA, Intermedia & Sculpture, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

    • 2014 | BFA, Painting, Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, Tbilisi, GE

    One-Person Exhibitions

    • 2025 Udabno (with Lasha Kintsurashvili), Konsthall C, Stockholm, SE (4/25-6/8)
      I Met A Traveller, Polina Berlin Gallery, New York, NY (3/19-4/26)

    • 2023 Mute Things, Gallery Artbeat, Tbilisi, GE (10/27-12/12)

    • 2021 Limen (with Tamo Jugeli), Svaneti Museum of History and Ethnography, Svaneti, GE  (6/5-7/27)

    • 2020 Unattended Act, Public Space One (PS1), Iowa City, IA (4/27-5/12)

    Selected Group Exhibitions

    • 2025 Field for Prey (with Charles Degeyter and Ana Gzirishvili), Tatjana Pieters, Ghent, BE (3/2-4/13)

    • 2024 Expelled Grounds, Nina Kintsurashvili, Ana Gzirishvili, Salome Dumbadze at Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt, Austria (11/27/24-1/9/25)
      Field for Prey (with Charles Degeyter and Ana Gzirishvili), Gallery Artbeat, Tbilisi, GE (9/14/24-2/1/25)
      SIXROOMFLAT, Studio Gypsandconcrete, Tbilisi, GE 
      My Sister Named..., L’atlas Gallery, Paris, FR, in collaboration with Gallery Artbeat, Tbilisi, GE (3/22-5/24)

    • 2023 Never The Right Time, COMMUNE Gallery, Vienna, AT (11/3-12/15)
      Painting After Wall Painting, E.A. Shared Space, Tbilisi, GR (9/24-10/29)
      Tsinamdzgvrishvili 49 / Mazniashvili 10,  LC Queisser Tbilisi, GE (5/19-6/07)

    • 2022 An Ocean Standing, LC Queisser, Tbilisi, GE (12/9/22-2/17/23FIVEROOMFLAT, Studio Gypsandconcrete, Tbilisi, GE (5/26-7/14)
      Supta Khelebi: Ten Collections of Works on Paper by Georgian artists (curated by Nino Sakandelidze), Stamba, Tbilisi, GE

    • 2021 Every Woman Biennial (curated by Eddy Grattan-Bellew and Ruby Streek), London, UK (6/12-7/9)
      Mazes, Microcosms, Mitosis (curated by Danni O’Brian), The Ekru Project, Kansas City, KS (5/7-5/30)

    • 2020 Mirror Eye, Ortega y Gasset Projects, New York, NY (1/3-1/5)

    Awards, Fellowships and Residencies

    • 2024 Residency, Research Station, Konsthall C, Stockholm, SE
      Residency, (Dis)Solutions – Decolonial Encounters, Latvian Center of Contemporary Arts x Goethe-Institut

    • 2020 Residency, ArtVilla Garikula, Garikula, GE
      Award, Forbes Georgia 30 under 30

    • 2019 Award, Edmund S Muskie Scholarship Award, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

    • 2017 Fulbright Foreign Student Program, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

    • 2013 Award, Ministry of Culture and Monument Protection of Georgia Research Award, Florence, IT

Images

Exhibitions

Nina Kintsurashvili in her Tbilisi studio, 2024 / Image courtesy of Nina Kintsurashvili