Born in Tbilisi in 1992 and now based in New York, Nina Kintsurashvili works in painting. Her practice is shaped by mediated access: growing up in Georgia, encounters with art history and cultural imagery came through books, reproductions, and the second-hand materials of Tbilisi's Bukinist street book dealers. As the daughter of a fresco conservator and an icon painter, she grew up around images in states of damage and repair, and around a tradition in which painting operates through convention as much as through ambiguity.

Her paintings sit at the threshold between abstraction and figuration. Forms accumulate through layered, gestural brushwork and are then partially erased, revised, and overwritten. What remains are shapes simultaneously too ambiguous to name and too decipherable to dismiss: figures, objects, landscapes held at the point of visibility. Solo presentations include Udabno at Konsthall C, Stockholm, and I Met A Traveller at Polina Berlin Gallery, New York (both 2025).

Artist text by Victoria Comstock-Kershaw.