Nina Chkareuli-Mdivani

Nina Chkareuli-Mdivani is a Georgian-born and New York-based curator, writer, and researcher. Chkareuli-Mdivani has contributed reviews, essays, and interviews to e-flux, Hyperallergic, Flash Art International, Artforum, MoMa.post, The Brooklyn Rail, The Arts Newspaper, JANE Magazine Australia, NERO Editions Italy, Spaghetti Boost Italy and others. She has curated over ten exhibitions in New York, Germany, Latvia, and Georgia. Chkareuli-Mdivani's book, King is Female, was published in October 2018 in Berlin by Wienand Verlag. Her research involves the intersection of art history and decolonization studies, focusing on totalitarian art and trauma theory; she has extensively written and lectured on the erasure of culture and recontextualization of feminist art within Eastern European and Western contexts. She holds undergraduate degrees in International Relations and Gender Studies from Tbilisi State University and Mount Holyoke College and a graduate degree in Museum Studies from the City University of New York.