Nina Vichayapai makes art that explores margins and peripheries. She is inspired by the formative peripheries that shaped her as a 1st generation Southeast Asian American. At the edge of people, place, and psyche, she finds power by centering alternative value systems. Her interdisciplinary work mixes the methods she has learned in the studio along with the matter of her everyday life. This includes; soft sculpture, site-intervention, pie-making, self-publishing, guerilla gardening, event organizing, dog petting, and eavesdropping. By working in sites both traditional (museums, galleries) and unconventional (telephone poles, malls, parks), Nina erodes art world hierarchies to make art that is felt, touched, and circulated within the public consciousness.
Her work has been exhibited internationally and locally in spaces such as the Tacoma Arts Museum, the Henry Art Gallery, and the Wing Luke Museum. She has been an artist-in-residence in places such as the Seattle Public Library, Deception Pass State Park, and Caldera Arts. Nina holds a BFA in Painting and Drawing from the California College of the Arts and an MFA in Art and Social Practice from Portland State University. She was born in Bangkok, Thailand. She currently lives between Seattle, Washington, and Portland, Oregon.
Instagram: @Nvichayapai
Email: Nvichayapai@gmail.com
