Nina Behrsin

Bio: Nina Behrsin is a conceptually-based, interdisciplinary artist based in Berkeley, California. Her work spans mediums- photography, mixed media, sculpture, drawing and video. Nina Behrsin began her art practice while working with artist and UC Berkeley professor Anne Healey, and at the Oxbow School under the mentorship of printmaker Stephen Thomas (of Crown Point Press). Behrsin has her BA in Art from the UCLA School of Art and Architecture. She has shown her work at the San Francisco Public Library, the Corcoran Gallery (Washington DC), the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Infusion Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), and the North Street Collective (Willits, CA). She has been recognized with awards from the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Arts Recognition and Talent Search, the Rhode Island School of Design and the Hammer Museum (Los Angeles). Nina Behrsin has also been teaching for twenty years as a multiple-subject arts-integration educator and curriculum developer. She received her M.A. in Education from UC Berkeley and a certification in Arts Integration (based on Harvard’s Project Zero research-supported pedagogical practices), and served as an Arts Integration Team member (coach) for Alameda County’s Arts Is Education pilot elementary school (Peralta Elementary).

Statement: Nina Behrsin's process is guided by reflections stemming from the subconscious and the natural world, personal narrative, histories and texts; she pursues the personal questions: How can I explore connection of 'self' to place and memory? What threads emerge in this exploration? Physical surfaces in Behrsin’s work are cut apart and rearranged, layered, reinterpreted, rebuilt. The resulting body of work are artifacts of this inquiry process.