Nina Hartmann’s multimedia practice operates at the nexus of painting and sculpture and explores the functionality and malleability of proof in a modern day information age. Shaped panels of encaustic, resin sculptures and vinyl screens carry photographic information collected from a variety of sources including official government outlets like the CIA or the U.S Air Force, institutional archives and alternative news sources like message boards or UFO believer websites. Through the use of AI and other methods of alteration, Hartmann manipulates the images she finds, questioning their legitimacy and challenging roles of authorship. Informed by an interest in mysticism, symbols, diagrams and maps of peripheral belief systems, Hartmann develops her own symbolic language that breaks down hierarchies within systems of information.

Nina Hartmann (b. 1990 in Miami FL) lives and works in Queens, New York. She received an MFA from The Yale School of Art in Painting & Printmaking in 2023 and a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2013. Her work has been featured in various exhibitions, among them ‘A Signal Urgent But Breaking - Yale MFA Show’ at Perrotin New York (2023), ‘rhi-zome’ at No Gallery, New York (2023), ‘The American Friend‘ at Tara Downs, New York (2022), JUNK IS NO GOOD BABY at Silke Lindner (2022) and FOGBANK at Gern en Regalia in New York in 2021 (solo show).