ABOUT THE ARTIST

Born in Houston, Texas, of Basque and Native American ancestry, Nina Anduiza lives and works in Belgium.

Assiduously practicing visual arts from an earlier age, she first studied at the Glassell School of Arts, the Rix Jennings Art Studio and the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston, before moving to Boston where she graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Fine Art’s degree from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts.

Her work has received numerous distinctions, among them the Melissa Beth Meyers Award, from Tufts University ; the Annual Prize from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation ; the Eben Demarest Trust Annual Award, upon nomination by the famed Menil Collection (Houston) and the National Sculpture Society (New York). Her work has also been featured in many publications.

The great dancer, choreographer and plastician Akarova, whom she met in the later years of her life, said of Nina Anduiza that, “she possesses the Mystery”.

In quest of the origins of consciousness and the foundations of thought, for the two decades following her graduation, Nina Anduiza dedicated herself to an inner journey within the intimacy of her studio, exploring the furthest reaches of her multi-layered heritage in order to better render through the manifestations of her art the universality that binds all sentient beings together.

This introspection did not get in the way of a few public appearances, often in

homage to other creators such as the sculptor Jef Lambeaux and the poet Jacques Izoard, where her artworks were noted for the unique power they emit.

At the crossroads of her Basque and Native American origins, her concept of art is nourished simultaneously by the Occidental tradition, whose cultural legacy she perfectly masters, and by a deep belief in the ritualistic essence of art, that is to say a belief in the power of art to induce a spiritually transformative experience.

Through their radically original expression, her artworks awaken within our most intimate self an intense emotion, where the meaningfulness of their figurative themes resonates with the purely esthetic experience of their remarkably abstract materiality, releasing inside of us a plurality of harmonics that set our entire humanity into vibration.

Intimately convinced that the core of emotion is solely conveyed by the immediacy of the artist’s gesture, as an unfiltered mediation of the body animated by the energy of Being in creation, Nina Anduiza is a master of her own technique, who creates and directly produces herself each of her artworks. Later she decides to show them in their bare essence or combined in the form of installations, depending upon the discourse that she wishes to put forth.

Along with the continuation of her introspection and her production, she now also commits herself to the unveiling of her multilayered universe within a dedicated space at the Atoma Art Center, through the ever-evolving installation called « Sentience », as well as in collaboration with gallerist Constantin Chariot.