Nina Yuen holds an MFA from Bard College and a BA from Harvard University. She
completed a residency at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam in 2010. Yuen has
participated in numerous group exhibitions and screenings at venues including The Eye,
Amsterdam, Netherlands; Jane Lombard Projects, New York; Stenersen Museum, Oslo;
the New Media Festival, Seoul; the International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow; the
Rotterdam Film Festival; Kino Lab, Warsaw; Kassel Documentary Festival; OK Video
Festival, Jakarta; and the Images Film Festival, Toronto. Drawing from sources
including her own memories and experiences, literature, poetry, science, and art history,
Yuen merges the personal and the universal in lush, evocative videos. Incorporating
herself into her films as protagonist and narrator, she builds dreamlike, loosely
constructed scenes out of hypnotic image series that unspool into snippets of music and
the rhythm of her voice as she recites poetry, reads passages from a wide assortment
of texts, and recounts her own and other people’s memories. Nature figures prominently
in her work, which draws on philosophical themes such as death, time, and beauty.
Critical Dialogues: Nina Yuen
Tyler School of Art and Architecture
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